After having a cheeky read through of Sam's experience of using new media communication devices, I thought I'd compose a post myself sharing my experiences and the reasons behind why I use them.
With E-mail, this has seemed to take over my life. I tend to check it a couple of times a day. However my email is mostly used now just as a notification. As 90% of the messages I recieve says that someone's virtually poked my on facebook or some rubbish like that. But I do put it to good use sometimes such as keeping in touch with old friends that have travelled to the other side of the world.
Bulletin boards are definately a quiet area in my media communication. As Sam said I think the only one that i have come into contact with is the one on Myspace. However this has just turned into a promotion feature for bands telling us of ticket realise and up coming gigs.
Messaging services have also definately had a massive impact on my life. Especially instant messaging. Even at this moment as I types these words, I am on MSN messenger talk to people. This is now starting to spread over my internet usage with the introduction of the same concept of Facebook chat. Although I tend to stick mostly with MSN as it is much better such as the features, layout and the reliability.
With the MUD's and MOO's, this again has a little impact on my life. I know that online gaming seems to have shot off in the past few years such as the availibility to go online through consoles including the Xbox and Playstation. But this and many computer based games such as World Of Warcraft doesn't appeal to me. Walking around a world as a mythical creature with horns and flippers or something just seems a waste of time.
Finally, websites, these have probably have had the biggest impact on my new media communication usage as i'm sure they have for endless amounts of people.
With everything these days shown and explained on the internet it has now become a lot easier to find a piece of information. So when we next try to find the number for a local restaurants or garage, the most likely hing for people to do now is to 'surf' the web as more companies and businesses are creating websites of their own. So I think we might as well throw our copies of the Yellow Pages away as the entire book has turned into a virtual version. Of course with it's own web page!
Anyhoo thats that, just thought I'd throw that ou there because I know we all have a little amount of reading haha!
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ReplyDeleteHi Drew,
ReplyDeleteThis is a bit too long as one post, it makes it difficult for a commenter to focus on an aspect, because there are so many.
I think 'staying in touch' is the early 'killer application' of the Inet. My research into amateur websites (at their height in the late 90s/early 2000s) suggests that the thing people found frustrating was the lack of 'conversation' that their sites generated. The invention of 'webrings' were an early way to group content of shared interest and thus to generate more traffic which might leave messages on sites' bulletin boards (or guestbooks). Then blogs took the diary element of personal homepages and made it easy, the comments facility allowed a community to develop in terms of shared conversations, hence one of the early frustrations was addressed. Then with SNS, the finding and connecting with others was made simple. From the start amateur websites were trying to address similar issues, but the technology (HTML) was too difficult for most people to struggle with.