I think the internet and social media in general is interesting in terms of my generation. Our relationship with the internet but especially with social media is a completely new concept. We grew up and were coming of age while the internet was also hitting it’s prime. I remember life without smartboards in classrooms but by high school all my classrooms had smartboards and full access to the internet.

I liked the part of the textbook that talks about email. At the time and still email is revolutionary, it connected people on a level that wasn’t able to happen before. As a business student, and just a college student , email is my prime source of connecting with people. I liked this quote from the textbook “The speed and relatively inexpensive nature of e-mail makes it a prime competitor of postal services—including FedEx and UPS—that pride themselves on speed.” I never thought about email being a competitor of postal services because I grew up with email being popular. Thinking about it though I guess it would make sense that it cut down their profits. I think I would compare it to nowadays uber and lyft vs taxi’s. I was in high school when uber was coming up and taxi drivers were upset by it, but now it’s so normal that kids growing up will probably not know about the fight taxi and uber went through.

Going on to the social media part of the textbook, I always think it’s funny how the older generation complains how my generation is attached to their phones. Phones make life easier, plain and simple so why would I not want to use it. I would say my phone, and in turn internet and social media are essential to daily life now. Essential because I can check my work schedule and any changes  need to be noted, I can check on my email and school work to stay on top of that, along with staying in contact with my family who don’t live in the area. I have my bank information on my phone and my venmo which I need incase I need to transfer money around. On top of that I also can text my friends and check my social media and have my entertainment.