This year in Mass Media, we have focused on some very pivotal and important topics when talking about advancement in communication and entertainment. I enjoyed researching and writing about all of these. I’ve learned a lot in this class while talking and going in depth with all of these topics. The two topics that I enjoyed writing and learning about the most was the social media week and the internet week. I enjoyed those the most because our generation relates to those topics the most. We are very effected by it. Our generation was the start of both of these concepts, Social Media and the internet all happened in our life so far. The advancements will just keep happening and keep getting better and better as time goes on.

Social Media is such a strange concept but also such a very important concept. In modern day society. Social media is the top way to communicate. No matter what platform you use, you can find a way to communicate with everyone using that platform which is mostly the entire population of teenagers. It has sky rocketed as an idea in just about ten years. It isn’t all for entertainment and communication though, a lot of people are able to make a living off of social media, making a stable income from it. There are a lot of what are known as “influencers” on social media that try to really expose new fashion trends or styles that are really liked on social media. There is also a ton of advertising that goes on all over social media. People run businesses over social media and are able to promote and sell their products from people that saw the products on social media such as Tik Tok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter. Instagram has been around the longest. That was my first social media platform that my parents allowed me to use. Then came snapchat which was very different from everything else at that time. Snapchat wasn’t an app for trends or styles or to scroll on a feed. It simply was an app that was made for communicating with pictures. You could take a picture and add a caption and send it to someone. I had both of these because of how different they were from eachother. Then Twitter came out which was a little different from instagram because it was all “Tweets” which were usually slogans or phrases that were 200 letter or less. At the start of twitter, there were no pictures. It has changed now because you can now add pictures to tweets so it’s more like instagram now but I mainly use twitter because you can find a lot of vitol information that everyone should know. I’m not even talking about sports stats and scores or movies coming out but national crisis’s or national news or important deaths across the country. These can all be found on Twitter almost immediatley after the event happens. For this reason, Twitter is my favorite platform. I would love to learn more about social media and the effects it has on the nation.

The internet was my second favorite topic because that was also a very pivotal movement for society and it all happened in my lifetime. Technology really started moving once the internet came out. The internet was a game changer. If it wasn’t for the internet there would be no email, no social media, no search engines. If there wasn’t internet then the only communication would be a phone call or talking face to face. During this COVID crisis, we have used the internet for EVERYTHING. All of our classes and meetings have been online. If this crisis happened before the internet, we would literally all be in a stand still. Nothing would be going on except emergency jobs. A huge amount of the population makes a living using the internet. A lot of jobs are being moved online and more and more jobs are relying on the internet and technology. The world wide web has hepled our economy in so many ways. Allowing people to have information by typing on a keyboard. Communication is most efficient when used online and lastly people support their families from making a living online. Most entreprenueres now a days are all online trying to promote and sell their products and the people that buy their products all find them online. In person stores are becoming the runner up of online shopping.

In conclusion, We need both of these things in our lives and in our society. Some of the other topics that we learned and researched about are things that we don’t need in our lives today, but both of these topics need to be around in order for our economy to run smoothly and I’m very confident when saying that these are two very important things that will be around for our whole lifetime.