What will you be caught doing on Facebook?

Media plays a significant role in everyone's life today. We get news fast about things that are going on around the nation through the television, internet, radio etc. We can be connected to people around the world and celebrities through Facebook and Twitter. A lot of information about people can be viewed on their facebook or twitter. Sometimes people can get in trouble with what they put on their social networking site. We all have heard about the teacher who got fired because she had a picture of herself drinking a glass of wine and her students saw it.
Because Media is so instantaneous and it is so easy to connect with people all over the world, we are able to see how one country affects the nation. Our nation no longer sees each country as an individual nation but as a whole nation that affect one another. As a nation we are more together than we used to be because we are all connected and we all receive the same news. When 9/11 happened in New York City, everyone around the world knew and everyone was able to discuss the implications of the attack and were able to mourn for America. If other countries had received the news really late it might not have been as catastrophic as it was viewing it that same day as more and more information kept appearing. It seemed like everyone around the world was tuned in to see what was going to happen to the towers and the people in those towers. Countries rallied around America when we were in such turmoil as a nation.Support was very encouraging for our nation in that troubling time.
Much of the news now is negative so sometimes we can stereotype things and people negatively because of the way the news is portrayed to us. Because our news is instantaneous, sometimes we make our decisions faster and we are able to make more informed decisions because we get our news faster and more detailed.The news used to be more for adults, but now there is news that is written for children so that they can understand what is going on in the world. More and more, we are trying to get children to learn about the nation as a whole and make decisions about what they think about issues.

Students have learned to believe that we are all citizens in the world and need to be respective of other nations. We as a country are going away from egocentric feelings about our country to caring more about the nation as a whole. By being culturally diverse and celebrating these different cultures children are able to see how our country is a part of a much bigger nation.

Students today have a much more accurate portrayal and perception of the world today than what they had years ago because they receive news from all over the world and are also introduced to many different cultures all over the world. Students are also working together to take care of the environment because they realize that everything they do affects the nation as a whole. Overall, Students are much more knowledgeable about the nation than they used to be.