Blog Post 3

Society is changing in a lot of aspects in our daily lives. One way our society is changing in a major way is the way people use technology. Social media is taking over our world today, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. From twitter, to facebook, people all across the world are using these social media networks in their everyday lives. For example, in the past two presidential elections in the United States, canidates have used the internet and social media networks to get their campaign out to the public. Twenty years ago, if you were running for president, you had to work so much harder to get your campaign out to the people because you didnt have the luxury of technology like people havee today. http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/how_presidential_candidates_use_web_and_social_media

According to www.medialit.org, the defunition of media literacy is  the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media in a variety of forms. I would consider myself media literate because i do participate in all of the social networking cites. I use these cites for many different reasons, but mostly to just keep up with my social life. If any other teenager told you that they use it for a different reason, they would be lying.

I agree with this statment because I think technology has taken control of most peoples lives today. To many peopl forgot what it was like before technology and had to read a newspaper to find out information. Without this much technology, children and students would be forced to read more books, therefore would be better off in the long run.