Write a 300 to 500-word post about whether the shift to
consuming media online has been negative or positive in your life.
Twenty years ago we
all used to sit down in the living room and wait for our favorite show to come
on. My dad loved “The Andy Griffith Show”
and I was an adamant fan of “Married with Children.” We would spend the time in between his show
and mine talking about life stuff, like how school was that day or if I had any
girl friends. Back then television was
just as much about family spending time together as it was about the show
playing on the boob tube.
That all changed since
the shift to consumption of online media.
There are no more television programs to watch and wait for since these
days whatever one wants to watch can be seen with the touch of a button or the
click of a mouse. The speed and ease
with which modern media streams into homes is indeed, awe-inspiring, to one like
myself, that remembers when rabbit ears
had to be just right in order to catch my favorite show. But with speed and ease came consequence, and
the consequence of this modern movement falls upon the backs of families
everywhere.
Instead of brother and
sister fighting over who gets to watch what and when they all run to their
rooms, log on, and pine away. It’s convenient
and marvelous but at the same time it’s saddening: rather than the interaction
that comes from sharing (or fighting like cats and dogs) the television there
is merely a hollow place where it once was.
The faster we stream the further away from one another do we drift.
How, positively or
negatively, has consuming media online affected me? I can watch more of what I want, when I want,
to the precise extent I want but in doing so I have chosen to be alone. Dad doesn't come along to ask about my day
nor will sister fight me for the remote.
I have complete control over the media yet no connection to content; the
content of my life. So has streaming media online affected me negatively? In a word, yes.
