Media & My Future

I finished making my website today in class. Despite mankind's advances in technology, something will always go wrong, even if it is minor. The school server was malfunctioning earlier this week & the Mac I was using stopped working, so my progress was momentarily halted. I enjoyed making a website, but I wish I could have done more with it if I had more time to devote practicing with DreamWeaver & the other adobe programs.

I want to have my own personal homepage, other than this blog of course, to use as way to express my interests w/out giving away too much personal information (I'm looking at you My Spacers!). The internet is a gateway to get-away w/out having to actually leave your house. I would like to meet people across the globe via the net, but I would want to meet them in person as well. The internet should NOT replace live human interaction, as this can have very dangerous consequences.

The world wide web allows people to share information at paces man could never have imagined decades ago, but how much of it is reliable? Information needs to go through editing & verification processes, at least info that is considered important.

I do NOT want to read something that was completely compiled by a program that gathers data from numerous if not countless sources; in this example there is no quality & fact checking; that scares me.

I love watching animated movies & shorts on the internet, from YouTube or Newgrounds; such things take a lot of talent, time, & energy to make. I really want to learn how to make a flash animated short, oh the crazy carnage I would unleash onto the interwebs!!!

My mass comm internet class has taught me that I still have much learn if I truly desire to continue & proper in the already saturated market of mass communications; in other words, knowledge & its application =s power.