Yinan / Have the new media changed our lives for the better?

New media has changed our lives for the better in a way that it makes communication much easier than it used to be. Before the invention of new media, even trying to send a message would be a very difficult task because manually, it takes a lot of procedures before it could be received. Now, with the new media out there, it is very effortless and efficient to communicate with people. For example, with the many alternatives of online networking sites like Facebook, Blogs, Twitter, and email, it is very easy to communicate with the person you want to. This has greatly benefited our lives because it saves us a lot of precious time just to send out a message to people from your region and also, from other countries. Yes, some might rebut by saying that new media has made people to become increasingly overly-reliant on mass media to work in their daily lives such that when it fails, there are no alternative for people to continue with what they are doing. However, this only happens when the user is not responsible for his/her own work such that they did not save it in another place like the thumbdrive. If users are responsible, even if the computer is bound to crash, he/she will not have a problem. Hence above all, if new media were not invented, life for people would be much harder and troublesome. Thus, I think that new media has changed people’s lives for the better because it has saved us a lot of time and trouble by making communication much more efficient and easier.