Media, in all its glory...

In today's technological advance society, things like communication, sharing and convey ideas to others is as easy as logging on to a computer. With conventions such as Face Book, and twitter, even blogging websites ... Where people can update their "status" as much as they want, so all their friends can see. We live in a curious age, where things such as war and famine take a back seat in the world of pressing issues, a place where people are more interested in Charley Sheen's love life, than the current situation of post revolutionary Egypt. Where subjects such as mass death and environmental catastrophes are skimmed over in the daily paper routinely, and not so much as even given a second thought.

There are a number of factors to take into consideration when inquiring about the overall well being and morality of our current society. Personally, being a part of of this era certainly has its perks, conventions such as Google, Wikipedia, facebook etc... Are absolutely revolutionary. Just the concept of having an astounding amount of information at your fingertips, in an instant, has completely changed the way we as humans ask questions, and learn the answers. The Mass Media has evolved exponentially in the past couple decades, bombarding us on all fronts; Advertisements ( of all kinds) Broadcasting media, Digital/Recording media, Publishing media. Are all forms of conveyed information, we as "citizens" are subjected to on a mass scale, to the point of which we are unaware.

The Idea of Social media, is media, in any shape of form, disseminated through social interaction. Via word of mouth, text messaging, blogging facebook, twitter...
This byproduct of evolved media has almost become a counter part, contributing to the rise of counter culture. For generations their have been uprisings, political and social movements, where people fought for what they believed in. During the 1960's their were civil rights, and women's right. The "hippie" movement and the counter culture developed in spite of the war in Vietnam. Where the only way to reach out to people was to actually talk to them. I found it ironic, back then people still got their point across, where people questioned and explored their rights. And now, where a 15 year old can have the world at his/her fingertips, has little to no interests in worldly affairs, no political opinion, or thirst for knowledge as I like to put it. Lets just say the world wont be producing anymore John Lennon's anytime soon...

There are a paralyzingly intimidating number of topics that can be discussed when questioning the media. It is also important to question the source of your media, that is half the battle.It has come to the point to where our minds are saturated with it. In a sense numb to the actuality of most things, disconnected from reality. When your walk down the street, how many people do you notice gazing into their Iphone, or smart phone, and on top of that almost walk into you!
If you thought it couldn't get anymore up to date, you can now get face book notification your your hand held devices, breaking yet another social barrier where now information can be transmitted almost as soon as it happens.