It's All About The Internet

After coming home from school today, I was sitting at my kitchen counter trying to think of a blog idea, when my mom tells me I should check the newspaper from today. And what was my response? "Nah, i'll just look at newspapers online." What i found interesting from this was how my mom suggests the printed newspaper, while i of course say it's easier to just look online. Immediately after saying that line, I began to think about the huge generational gap between my mom and i. Her generation is so used to everything being in print, while we look to the internet to find a news article. Another example of the different between our generation and our parent's, is the world of texting.


I'm sure many of us have been through the painful moments of watching our parents try to type out a text. For my mom, she will tell me to go "email my friend" when in reality, she means text. This mixup between the two would probably never happen to us, but our parents got locked into a world of email when computers were becoming popular, and they still stick with that. However, would you go send an email to a friend to invite them to dinner or ask them a question? Probably not.


And like with most things, there's a negative side to this. One of the obvious ones, that is playing a role now, is illegally downloading music. This increase in technology has brought the music industry down significantly. Not only is the downloading off of websites hurting it, but also sites like pandora, where you can listen to songs for free, so then what's the purpose of buying it? I, like many, have a pandora app on my phone, where i can listen to it anywhere, anytime, so why would i go to iTunes and download the song for a dollar?


What's your opinion on this? Do you think this is just going to continue to get worse, with more and more websites and apps come out, making it easier to listen to music without purchasing it?