Monday, February 9, 2009

Ethan Zuckerham – History of the Internet

Ethan was telling us that “a lot of the really interesting community stuff were invented in 1982 or 1979, are we all suddenly putting attention to it? … they all look like this one…” He was saying that all the good blogs, information and entertaining while being educational at the same time, are now kind of gone. I think it is true because we can find more stuff online that are not made by reliable company. Users, such as My Space, Blogs, Face book and others outnumber private companies. And even private companies are not supposed to be trusted a lot. Whose information are we supposed to rely? It leaves me with the thinking of what’s going to happen to my future children. I hope they do not get fooled by trusting the internet. I also hope that the government gets more involved in it. But whose money are we going to use? We are in a recession right now and will probably not get out of this one until we get old. I remember there is a popular case called Megan Meier story where the girl killed himself because Josh (a guy who never existed and Megan fell in love with) told her on My Space that “the world would be better without her.”

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  1. I agree that it is getting more and more difficult to sort through all the information that's available to us. It means we have to make conscious and informed decisions.

    However, despite some of the problems that accompany the openness of the internet, I think having access to more and more information is better than having the information we are able to access controlled by others. Because the internet is open, we are able to read points of views and access information about things we might not otherwise be exposed to.

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