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=LAB 2=

What "digital innovation" do you feel best deserves the title of "revolutionary" and why?
I believe social networking on the Internet best deserves the title of being a revolutionary digital innovation.

Within the past few years, the Internet has evolved to create an entirely new form of interaction in the social lives of its users. Social networking in this format has become such an integrated part of our lives that other media are asked/forced to incorporate it within themselves. Newscast stations asks to followed on Twitter and to be 'Liked' on Facebook.

There is a whole new definition to privacy, and to adopting a whole new ethic regarding the content of online communication. Whatever content you provide on the Internet will always remain on the Internet; there is always a way to the beginning of an online thought. It doesn't matter that people disagree on it, or that your own views regarding it change. In a way, you will always carry your Internet history with you.

Speed at which news and also, what //type of news,// travels now compared to past types of mass media is also astounding. Responses to news are also prominent; social sites like Twitter and Facebook assist in bring others' opinions and judgements that can hardly be ignored. I feel especially the realm of user-generated offers, such as YouTube videos and blogs specifically offering intimate and personal details, there are now more things that come to light that I realize I don't care to know about.

People willingly offer to give up their privacy -an option on Facebook that allows your location to be broadcasted. Another type of sharing involves words: purged up from within their minds, offering self-righteous thoughts about nothing and everything. Their filled up egos overflow onto others; narcissist, misspelled babbling specifically fishing for feedback from peers. There is so much user-generated content that it is hard to govern what should or shouldn't be said and on the Web, or if governance should be even considered at all.

Social networking is truly revolutionary: the people, the public, has created a new type of communicating, focusing on themselves, governed and curated by themselves.