Posts Tagged ‘Connectivity’

• Who does the Internet serve, the public or the corporations?

  Date: 2010.10.24 | Category: IM11002 | Response: 6

  Well lets start off with the public.  We use the internet for interaction through email and Facebook etc.  We shop through a vast selection of online stores such as eBay snd Amazon.  We watch countless videos on Youtube.  We now have greater connectivity than ever but we seem to neglect the usefulness of the internet to an extent.

  Did we really need to tell that distant friend on facebook that you had a sore head two nights ago?  Did we really have to buy that keyring on ebay or was that just for the excitment of bidding on an auction?  Did we really need to watch that video of the kitten dancing?  These are classic examples of what the corporations have pushed us to do which we would never have thought about years ago.  This shows that the public have freedom online but at the same time the corporations seem to be luring this unto us.  So who does the internet serve the public or the corporations?  It looks like both as they are helping to serve each other through the Internet.