The Internet

Being 19 years old, I have grown up with the internet. I have been exposed to and using the internet since Kindergarten, and have noticed it change throughout the years. I think the internet is awesome, but, just like everything, has its downfalls. Personally, I use the internet every day. The internet is a tool that I depend on for social interaction, schoolwork, and even just every day conversation. I use the internet for news, email, and shopping. This is all very good from my point of view, but I can definitely see how some view the internet as a bad thing for some people in our society as well. I have personally witnessed cyber-bullying, which is a HUGE issue concerning the internet. It seems that people are much more likely to say cruel things to someone when they are not face-to-face with them. This leads to even more issues of decreased social skills in young people who have grown up with and relied on the internet to do most of their 'dirty work'. In my own life, I see the internet as a distraction, especially a way to do some heavy procrastinating. Even if I am doing homework on the internet, I almost always have a facebook/pandora/twitter tab up on top of the work I am supposed to be finishing.

Real News vs. Fluff News

As a young adult, I do not watch the news on tv as much as some other people do. I get most of my news from social media, and after watching CNN's headline news in class, I realized that Klosterman had a good point about what consumers consider real news and fluff news.In my opinion, the segment of headline news had a majority of real news, but one story stuck out to me as fluff. The anniversary of JFK's assassination was a fluff story. They spent a lot more time than they needed to discussing his coffin and the museum that holds the actual plane that transported the president and his wife. I understand that the 50th anniversary of his death is an important event in our country, but I feel that there was too much time spent discussing something that can be visited in a museum and seen any time you want. The story that I thought was much more meaningful was the segment on how expensive hospital bills have become. I think that the inflation and over pricing of hospital and medical expenses needs to be uncovered because it is a very big debate in our society. Economically and politically, even, it has been addressed multiple times and the American people are having trouble with this issue.