Book Post 2

One of the points covered in Here Comes Everybody is the fact that teens who would regularly have a conversation socially, now spend that time talking over the internet. This has been the topic of many articles and news reports. Talking over the internet however, is inherently different from talking over the net. From personal experience and from talking to other people I know that some conversations that are held online would not have occurred in a social environment. Conversations which sometimes occur with people who you would not regularly interact with anyway. They are different ways of communicating and therefore not replacements for one another. The time people spend on computers is usually a replacement for other types of entertainment like watching television and reading. One could even argue that the internet has helped people express themselves in ways they couldn't before, an example being blogging. This issue is not black and white as portrayed in the book.