Blog 2

The internet, that is conversation piece that continues to take away from our class week in and week out. This is due to the fact that the rewards given to us by the internet. These rewards are extreme giving us the ability to communitcate and obtain information all over the world. I found after long contemplation that the internet is a "device" however, that does not make it "bad." Now I understand that is not Borgmann's argument, whether the device is bad for us. Yet, the internet serves more than one purpose and does take away from many moments that could be spent in books or lunches between friends who have not spoken in years. The social networking sites in today's society would really assist Borgmann's argument. Now I know there will be people who disagree but the only reinforces his argument that we are in the paradigm and that it is extremely difficult to get out.