Media and the Truth

Have you ever wondered how you know what you know?

That is a question that I really don't have a answer to. I would like to say that I know what I know because I just do, but that would not be the right answer, so I'm going to go with this.

I know what I know from the things that I do everyday. I find myself watching TV and looking on the computer and it is stored in my memory, I guess. The odd thing is that I don't realize when I am learning new things.  Now who can honestly say that they remember when and where they learned that odd little fact that nobody knows but them. For instance did anyone know that the capital of Djibouti is Djibouti. And for some reason I knew that. I heard it in this commercial(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPNT5j_OMzw) and that was the only part I remembered. This goes to show how powerful media is when it comes to obtaining new information. I find that learning is second nature to us as humans. There are some thing's that we are taught as we grow things and there are some thing's that we learn on our own. From the use of repetition we are able to remember how to do certain things and that turns into us knowing that information.

I must say that I do believe that media can have it moments when it is reliable for obtaining creditable information. When I say moments I really mean moments, most of the things I see on social media sites, I don't believe are true. Like the commercial with the girl that says she knows what she knows because she read it on the Internet and apparently  the Internet it always correct. I feel that personally everything that is put on social media is placed there to grab the audiences attention weather its fact or fiction because someone is going to believe either. Now I don't use Twitter as much as I should or hardly ever but something that are posted I can say may be true as long as the source is reliable. For instance if the I'm following CNN and they posted something about a shooting I would more than likely believe that because in my eyes they are a reliable source of information(even though they can get information wrong too).

Although I cannot really recall a lot that social media has taught me. But today on 04/10/14 I did learn that it was National Siblings Day. I had no clue that there was such a day. Looking on instagram today my timeline was flooded with national siblings day picture. And I think that it is a good idea to have a national sibling day because I did not know that it was a real day until now. But you know I had to do my research to see if it was really a day. And it turns out that it is, Instagram actually gave me some valuable information.

National Sibling Day:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jay-scott/national-sibling-day_b_5120426.html?utm_hp_ref=impact&ir=Impact

 

The World of New Media

There are so many forms of new media in the world today that I cant keep up with all of them. To be honest with you I don't use all of them on a daily basis. The only thing that I really use on a daily basis are Facebook and Instagram. But when I go on these websites all I usually do is look at other post and maybe comment on them. I think I have to much to do in a day to make a status on Facebook or post a picture every day. I would like to use Twitter a bit more but I don't really understand the idea of using because I have only used it for class when I was in undergrad.

Now I do think that social media has influenced my perspective on events that happen in the world. Social media has a way of making you want to know what the truth really is and actually keep up with things in the world. It has opened my eye up to things that I never paid attention to before,  now I am able to know news before it his the news thanks to media it self. For example we are able to see what is going on with celebrities as soon as it hit the tabloids because someone will post it to twitter the moment it happen and that is the same for the weather or thing in the news because it will hit twitter and Facebook before it actually get on the new broadcast. But I do find that all these things are positive  outcomes of  media. To me media has a more positive influence because it allows us as people to express how we feel and let others know what is going on in the world at a moments notice.  But I do think that we have some negative influence's that come about in media because there are some things that we are able to find like on you tube of children fighting and cursing their parents out and children are able to see those things and think that it is ok. I feel like social media is more for the mature crowd because children do not know how to look at the things that are on social media and not take it for what it is, it gives them a negative out look on how to behave.  I know it is a way around the negative things that do show up on media sites but because we do have the freedom of speech it is kind of hard to get rid of it. I just think that adults should be more concise of what we put on social sites for the sake of the children.