I know it’s a little late but i figure now is better than never. This post is a in response to articles we read 2 weeks ago for class.
On page 3 of this article I found a statement that really caught my eye.
“One study found that only 40 percent of the Web is commercial. The rest runs on duty or passion.” This means that less than half of the whole entire internet is paid for by huge companies. The rest is run by people like us who have to have blogs for a class, or for some of us who want to have blogs for our own interest, or kids like us who want to go on youtube and “brodcast ourselves” for free! I like to think it’s really cool that a bigger percentage of the internet is run by passion than commercial conglomerates or duty.
On page 4, I discovered,
“A simple extrapolation suggests that in the near future, everyone alive will (on average) write a song, author a book, make a video, craft a weblog, and code a program.” This quote sums up how I currently feel about eventually graduating college. I am terrified to have a writing degree. Anyone can be a writer. Why should I focus on doing it for the rest of my life, as a career? I don’t just mean writing. What’s the point in majoring in anything? Anyone can be an author, a graphic designer, a music producer, the possibilited are endless. I find it quite scary that anyone in the world can be something through the internet for free that you (or I) are paying tons of money to become.
Page 7, ““When I play a woman I don’t really take it too seriously,” said 20-year-old Andrei. “I do it to improve the ratio of women to men. It’s just a game.” My thoughts on this…well let’s put it this way, in real life, people don’t usually cross-dress to improve gender ratios in the world. There was also a mention about how it’s easier to speak to the opposite sex in MUD’s. What I find humorous about this is that, if you are a woman in real life and in MUD’s and find it easier to converse with MUD’s men, half the men you are talking to in MUD’s are probably women anyway!!
My general viewpoint of MUD’s:
Playing as someone in a game vs. becoming someone real.
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