Blog Post 2: Web 2.0 Video

This video gives an easy to follow guide to how people and technology are connected. It has reached a broad audience and fulfilled its purpose to enlighten an audience to the importance of technology in a growing and changing world. It allows for many different types of people to understand the point without any confusion. It has surpassed the hurdle that makes communicating to diverse groups of people difficult. It adequately supplies the needed information in an interesting and intriguing way.
Technology as a medium has shaped and changed our forms of communication forever. It has become the center of our lives and the means of communication will never be the same. The purpose anyone’s message changes the way technology is used to communicate with others. It gives us a much broader opportunity and diversity of ways to communicate with others. For example, messages we want to convey to large groups of people are more likely to be posted on a website like Facebook or Myspace. While more opinionated entries tend to be posted on blogs. In the same manner email and instant messaging is a quick way for people to connect on a more private level. Using computers as a form of communication has proven a more convenient way for employers, companies, and people to communicate and share information. The internet has made everything much easier for students as well. With the click of a button, search engines like Google or Yahoo can supply quick information to help with a paper that is due. Prior to technology, communication was much more difficult and it took much longer to get in touch with people you needed. Nowadays technology and the internet allow us to be instantly connected with others.

This video gives you a Reader’s Digest version of some of the complicated parts of computers and technology. It shows us how we shape it and, in turn, how it shapes us.