media world

“If we live in a world of media, it is still important to remember that we do not live in a media world.”
In my opinion, a world of media means the world we are living is full of media while a media world means the world itself is mediated. In class, we talked about the negative effects which media, especially internet extends to people. However, I think it should depend on the audience when we talking about the media effects.
Even if the internet becomes more popular, the traditional media still plays an important role. In China, newspapers are the main resource of information to families. There are a lot of families subscribe the local newspaper and they considered it as a good way for them to get to be informed. Moreover, the television programs are still developing quickly and diversely and holding a big amount of audience. For the old people who are too fusty to get familiar with the internet, the radio broadcasting is their favorite media.
We should admit that internet is very important in our daily life. For me, I cannot even live without internet for more than one week. If we can use the internet in a right way, the negative effects of internet mean nothing to us. In China, there are many people who are addicted to the internet games, most of them are students. They spent a lot of time on it and became indifferent to other things such as study, their family members and so on. Many teenagers dropped out of school because they lost their interest in study. What even worse is that some teenagers committed to crime in order to get money to pay for the online games and this phenomenon is becoming frequently serious issue. I still read form the newspaper that a man got into the divorce trouble because he is too addicted to games so that his wife cannot bear him any more. There is another special phenomenon related to online games in China. When we play the online game, there is something called “equipment” (I am not sure about this, sorry) in it which includes the coins, the clothing with different power, the weapons and so on. These equipments need player to spend much time and money to gain. If someone wants to obtain the equipment without spend time on it, they can buy it from other players with a higher price. Therefore, this encourages teenagers to spend time on it and sell what they get and then make money of it. During summer vocation, many internet bars hire school students to win the equipment in the games by paying them based on their work. For the students, they can make money and play games at the same time. In my aspect, I think it is a very bad circle. The more people get into the internets, especially the online games, the more they will lose in real world. Since they can and already gained reputations and satisfaction on the internet, why they want to go back to real world?
In conclusion, media is created by human and it should be used by human. What we should do is to use them in the right way and never lost in them.