Back in the day the way we received our news was through newspaper or radio. If you wanted to know what was going on in the world you’d either have to read it or hear it from someone else. The news back then was also just news from your local community or cities close by, it was rare that you heard about news from another province, never the less another country. In today’s society we can hear news from the total opposite side of the world within matter of seconds. It has become an amazing resource for many countries, because when a natural disaster happen’s everyone around the world can see and is able to help the ones in need. Also with the help of social networking, news stations are able to send out warnings for severe weather, which alert people, that has helped many avoid bad weather or so that they can be prepared properly.
Over the years technology has developed more and more, and many different ways of retrieving the local news have emerged. First was watching the news on your television, so every morning, afternoon and night you can sit in front of your TV and listen to the top stories. Then they made it so that you can receive emails about important news updates or retrieve news from the internet. Through today’s generation we can receive news updates and watch broadcasts within seconds on our cellphones, IPod’s and on the internet. We can obtain sports broadcast within seconds anywhere and anytime. Today’s life is always on the go, with work, school, activities, family and friends, so there’s not much time to stop, with the help of social networking the news aworld ahs adapted itself to that lifestyle. I think that social networking has increased the quality of news and how fast we can receive it.
