Internet 101

In short, we should study the internet because it's new. It's a brand new way to have people participate in their culture. I believe the internet is something that is worth studying because it's the main platform where people go to put on sort of a "private" persona. People meet each other online and can stay in contact with them for years, but sometimes they will rarely, or never, see them in person. Also, search engines like Google collects information about us, so they will know what exactly we like and what we would want to see in a search result. What is keeping people so immersed in such a medium? How are people staying connected in such a vast open area like the internet? Will the entire internet be transformed and conform to just...Google?

To me, web sphere analysis is all about getting/wanting to know about the internet in general. It's about finding out why and how our society is using the web and who they are using it with/for.Today, almost everyone is getting their information or interacting with other people via websites. That's the only way one can search using the web. In regards to social media, I think that this methodology can and already has been incorporated in its analysis.

Change is always going on; whether it's with social media, or digital media. The nature of Social Networking Services (SNSs) is to find an easier way to obtain information that would otherwise be hard to find. With websites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, the CEOs and founders behind those companies are already on their way to making things easier to obtain; if they aren't already there! So, I guess there wouldn't be much to change. With SNSs, people can coordinate a simple search and find a specific person in the social media pool on the internet of millions of people.

The dynamic nature hasn't changed greatly within the SNSs. As far as advancement goes, it has changed tremendously. Comparing sites like Myspace to Facebook is like comparing the first PlayStation console with the new PS4. The essence of the web or the "link" may direct users to other sites that they don't want to be directed to. Mistakes like misdirection, turns people off and forces them to limit their associations with social networks or totally eliminate them from their lives. In result, that particular social network will consistently produce multiple updates trying to improve the user experience. However, as we've seen with Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, Inc., not a lot of people approve of all the changes.

Looking at the outcomes of the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, SNSs are almost automatic in regards to getting information out to the people. Some may say, "What's the point of the news on TV or Newspapers?" As far as a comparative study goes, a lot of similarity would take place being that both events were devastating for Americans.

In the end, it would be hard to get information out to other people when it happens in real time....or would it? What happens if the internet shuts down? Are mail carriers going to receive millions of letters containing 1 sentence that a teenager would've otherwise messaged to someone on Facebook? Would phone bills skyrocket because smartphone applications are no longer useful? Why should we study the internet? Simply because...the internet constantly studies us...