WEEK 3

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For this week's lesson, History of Media: The Evolution of The Information Society, I learned about the definition of media, types of communication, the economical stages of society, and some detailed information and example old media to new media.

Media is a medium of communication, where information is shared and exchanged.

Types of communication:

• Intrapersonal
• Interpersonal
• Small group
• Large group
• Mass media

Economical stages:

• Pre-agricultural Society
• Agricultural Society
• Industrial Society
• Information Society

Examples of old media:

• Letters
• Cable television
• Record players

Examples of new media:

• Social media
• HDTV (wide, flat screen)
• Smart phones

This week's question is based on an article: link here

Here is what I can say about my "Facebook behaviour": First of all, I personally think that I am a sociable person. Though I am more engaging and expressive virtually, I still do my part in real life interaction. I would say that I have a decent social life. I don't consider myself lonely. I have my circle of friends. A healthy relationship with both my friends and family. In addition to that, I do consider myself to be an active user of the social media. I don't update or post statuses frequently, only when I have to or really feel like it. That being said, thanks to Facebook's memory lane where the site have something that is posted by you from months or years ago to appear on your wall/feed when you log in but only you can see and decide to share it or not, I discovered that my way or style of posting statuses changed throughout the years. It used to be a lot emotional and personal and weird and I post more often before than now. I'd say it is because of age factor and I guess we could all agree on having that weird phase during teenage years and as I got older and I feel like I should stop posting emotional and personal and unnecessary things, I may have contributed to the reasons why some people didn't like to go on Facebook. Now, I'm just keeping my words to myself and most of time I only share the things, like videos or pictures or articles, that I see on my Facebook wall that I find interesting or informative. And I suppose people could decipher what kind of person I am by observing or analyzing the stuff that I share on Facebook which is somewhat cool.