I stand amazed sometimes at how much one can do with internet. With tools like Facebook, Twitter, various blog sites, like Blogger or Xanga, YouTube and many others you can read and produce whatever you want. According to the news, Justin Bieber and Owl City both got famous from posting their music on YouTube. In the recent news, people in Egypt were using Facebook and Twitter to rally people against the leader of the country. There are other people, like writer Tucker Max, who got famous for posting his stuff on a blog when he got rejected by publishing companies. It is literally amazing the depth of the tool we call the World Wide Web can hold. The internet is loaded with tons of information that you could almost learn anything without even going to college. After all, some of the greatest people in the business world didn't go far in college. The greatest thing is that new information is coming out all over the web every single day. There is more news and opinions that get written every day. Sometimes when using a search engine, it does seem like the web is just "cyberspace".
I think that YouTube is very useful tool for people to use. I see all sorts of media that is published on these sites. I have found everything from music videos, both amateur and professional grade, video blogs, both amateur and professional grade, TV shows, movie clips and even extremely random videos that have no intellectual meaning. I find that a site like this can encourage a massive amount of creativity since you can create your own media and post it on the site if you want to. I find that there are many of young people that are on here singing, blogging and saying random stuff on there. It is definitely a way to express your creativity freely to the world. Justin Bieber and Owl City are two examples of people that got popular by catching the eyes of producers by posting media on their channels. I find that if these tools are used in the right way people can do almost anything with them.
The next tools to discuss are Facebook and Twitter which as I have blogged about earlier have their ups and downsides. Recently, one use that these two sites were put to work with was, the demonstrators of Egypt's revolution rallied people online. I find that this can be a good way to use a social media site because its focus is on connecting other people together and communicating with them effectively. These sites are specifically designed for social reasons. There are times when being very social is a good thing because being able to have people in your life, especially those that are different than you and can be very helpful to you. Of course we all know the downside of being too social but it really depends on how much you really care about your privacy.
Finally, like video media and social media, blogging is a way people can write and put themselves out for people to discover them. You can write lengthy blog posts like ones I have written the last few days or you can just write short little one sentence blogs about your day. You can also put pictures, video or audio in your blogs. One success story is the author Tucker Max who got rejected by some publishers non-stop. He starts a website and started blogging his ideas and stories and he became popular that way. Now he gets publishers accepting his stories and he has a new book that has come out a few months ago. That is another success story about how people can use this social media to get all sorts of opportunities.
There is also a ton of news and information on the internet. With devices like smart phones, you can get this information the minute it is released. Technology like RSS allows can streamline how you get your information. I almost think how ridiculous the internet and all of these technologies working with it have made the pace of technological advance move. We seem to become more specialized, and more knowledgeable about almost anything we deal with. There is countless information on every subject anywhere on the internet that all you have to do is search for it using a search engine. As far as news goes though, being able to see most of the news online and to have regular access to the news archives can make everyone very resourceful if they know how to.
In regards to the last paragraph, there seems to be so much "space" out there where people can put all sorts of creative works, technological advancements or articles of interest that no wonder these industries are booming. You even think how this world is getting smaller and smaller and people have more information than ever before. I don't know if "cyberspace" is a term we use to call the internet anymore but it feels like with the infinite possibilities the Web can be utilized, I think it still lives up to the term’s description.
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