I chose this image because it shows the different spectrums of people in parasocial relationships.
The only other outside media that I could incorporate for parasocial relationships would have been a bunch of videos of people who are obsessed with celebrities and that would really just be a waste of all of our time.
Theme 4 & 5: Google VS Facebook.
I found this picture interesting because it shows how friends on Facebook has not only replaced the thinking of a small child and her imaginary friend, but that actual friends and human contact has been replaced by Facebook.
For those of us who are avid Facebook Junkies this picture is very amusing. It shows societies obsession with Facebook and our needs/desires to constantly keep our "friends" posted on our where abouts, even in the face of absolute chaos and destruction.
This is a little extreme but it also shows that not everyone of Facebook is there for friends and sometimes people use Facebook to hurt others.
This is another cartoon that is different than the rest because it shows that not everyone that adds you on Facebook is who they say they are and one should be careful when adding friends and talking to people.
This cartoon definitely made me laugh because it is so true, in recent years people use Facebook to get to know a person before actually having a conversation with them.
I also found a few more cartoons in relation to Facebook which made me laugh due to play on words etc., the link is as follows: http://offthemark.com/search-results/key/facebook/
This is the first of a few Google related cartoons, it is pretty much showing that Google is slowly taking over the world.
This cartoon is a little more political then the others, it is showing that Google isn't as private as we think it is, and this cartoon definitely gives us a Big Brother vibe.
Another Cartoon showing that Google will one day take over the world.
This one is really funny, it shows a few things two. One is that is shows that people of the older generations are technologically slow (and socially slow for not knowing who Paris Hilton is) and two is that it shows people using the internet for stupid reasons instead of to gain knowledge.
This cartoon basically shows that Google is starting to replace all cognitive reasoning and human interaction.
This last Google image is cute, I enjoyed it because of the play on popular Google culture in the end (the feeling lucky button).
Theme 3: Old media & Intellectual Technologies.
This is another funny cartoon about the protest of new technology.
The following is two links that review two of the most recent technological advances, the amazon kindle, and the iPad.
An interesting Media experience:
Through the semester we discussed how technology is taking away from human brain functions and human interactions. The other day I had an interesting first hand experience at this. My boyfriend just bought the Droid, and on this phone there is an app called Google Skymap. This app plots all the constellations in their current spots in the sky based on time of year etc,. As you move the phone in any direction, including up/down you see all the stars. You can even see the stars on the other side of the world, and the sun/other planets. I, of course, found this amazing. But then I realized I was lying on my boyfriends bed, in his room, in his house, looking at the stars, when I should have been outside in the grass using my knowledge of the solar system to find these constellations. The app itself is ingenious, but it is yet another example of technology taking the place of our minds, and interactions.
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