Out for a night on the town, I share this pic of my friends and I on my Facebook photo album.Once upon a time, long ago, people read the morning newspaper, watched the five o'clock news and mailed hand-written letters to one another to keep up with family news and world happenings.
More recently, the average person can call someone on their house phone after work, write an email during lunch, or look someone up on their personal webpage through Yahoo.
Today? In thirty seconds or less, I can call my mom using our cell phones at her work during the ten minutes between classes and then text message my boyfriend at our apartment telling him to bring a forgotten textbook to campus for me. During my lunch break, I jump on a lab computer and Facebook my Photography I partner a message about a project we are working on.
These new social networks have caused my generation to become more intensely aware of the news surrounding our own intimate groups. I may not know the latest on nuclear weapons development in Iran but I'm definitely up-to-date with which of my friends went out last weekend-to what bars and with who (based on their newly uploaded photo albums of course.) I love Facebook.
In an instant I can relay information or get information with the use of my cell or computer to family and friends from Lawrence, New York and L.A. In short, with the use of this technology, my generation may rather use it's time to check up on friends and family, rather than to see what's new with CNN or Fox.
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