This man made a personal decision to disconnect himself, to stand up against humanity and say FUCK YOU as loud as he could. His methods, unquestionably reprehensible. But one must try and understand the circumstances that created this person, to try and prevent the past from repeating itself.

Throughout the years, it has become apparent that media is having an effect on our society; whether those effects are good or bad, it doesn’t matter. As media grows, our connections with others get stronger, more diverse, and information is able to spread farther and faster than ever before. From word of mouth, to flyers, to newspapers, radio, television, internet, and social media, our forms of media have rapidly grown over the years and will in turn continue to grow as time goes on and society continues to progress. Within the last few years, social media has become a large part of our society, and how we connect, but social media has largely taken off with the younger generation due to their exposure to different media types and having been apart of the rapidly increasing media/technology within a few short years. Even though social media has taken off quickly and has grown rapidly, some think it may die down once something new comes along, just like how the newspapers died down when the internet became a better way of finding out the news both local and nation/worldwide, but I believe that social media will be around for a long time to come. I believe that with technology growing as it is and people becoming more adapt with the ability to communicate and connect with others they wouldn’t have been able to before, that social media will continue to grow with society as a whole. 

Social media has improved tremendously throughout the years and technology in general is the main cause for this. You see things from beepers and landlines transform to iPhones. Box computers to iPads. In the social media realm you also see things like Facebook being the new MySpace and it’s as if Youtube has become our new form of television. Apps have made our every day lives that much easier. By just the tap of your phone you’re able to buy your groceries. So what’s next? It is as if everything we have ever needed will be accessible to us with this handheld device we carry around and drop on every occasion. With the rate that social media and technology is improving, we will be able to blink our eyes a certain way and have that image posted to our social media page of liking. Humanity is starting to become a form of robots walking this earth. 

Now that many years have gone by, social media is just changing and getting bigger and better. There are so many different social media sites around the world that is just about made for anyone. What will happen next? I believe that social media will continue to grow more bigger and better. Soon enough, social media will be the only thing that people on earth will have. It will continue to grow and the world will continue to revolve around it. 

Another possible revolution is where the option of views and likes continues to progress. Currently Facebook updated their platform by allowing users to “react” to posts rather than just liking it. As social media continues to grow, this option could become available on other platforms and also progress with its interactivity. This could be by allowing users to “react” to a post on social media with a personal picture allowing the features of Snapchat and other platforms to exist together. Allowing for more interactivity and control is the next steps for social media and with how quickly things are revolutionizing that change will come quick.  

This technology could change the media audience and world; big companies like Facebook and Sony are involved in creating their own hardware and, importantly, it's going to be affordable for lower – middle income people. This kind of technology will bring gaming into a whole new level of excellence, change film-watching forever, allow people to go on vacation without leaving the comfort of their home, would make for better trained, performance career choice like surgeons, and improving the quality of life by allowing disabled people a way to experience something that able people may take for granted.

I predict that as social media advertising increases, various social media platforms (and possibly, internet browsers as well) will offer a paid, advertisement-free social media experience for a monthly price. Social media platforms gain revenue in large part through their advertisement services, but for people who are tired and frustrated with constant ads, they can offer a paid subscription to an ad-free platform. This has already been done with music and television streaming services, why not with social media? 

Today, the media has effected everyone in the world in many ways. Without the media, people would not know what i happening around in their neighborhood or around the world. Though lately, the media has been quite negative. Nowadays the only “news” that the media brings to people are negative things that are happening around the world, for example, the terrorist attack that recently happened in Brussels, Belgium. The world now has become a very sensitive place to be on. No one knows who is good or who is bad. Without the media, no one would have known what happened in Brussels. Though the media brings negative news, the media helps everyone in a positive way to keep up with what is going on.