the ever-changing forms of media and technology have affected my life in a lot of the same ways it has affected the lives of the rest of America’s youth. one of the most significant examples i can think of is the growth of internet in our everyday lives. when i look back on my computer use as a child, things were much different. i used the computer for games, but not internet games, games that came on disks. i spent most of my time playing off the computer. as time went on, my use for the computer changed. i was playing games for longer amounts of time, such as The Sims. This was the first computer game i would actually spend hours playing. i would also use the computer for homework. however i still spent a majority of my time finding fun things to do off the computer. as the interent grew, i slowly started to use it. i made a screen name when aim became popular. this alone made me go on the computer more, so i could talk with friends. around this same time me and my brother and sister downlaoded a music downloading system. so i now went to talk to people and download my music. i started surfing the web in my free time, while i talked to people and waited for songs to download. i also continued to play some games on the computer.As time went on i spent more and more time on the computer. Next came myspace, and eventually facebook. i spent time editing my page, surfing these sites, and connecting with my friends. coming to school, i have started to use my e-mail a bit more, but only to talk to adults, like aunts and uncles. All these things combined have made going on the internet a part of my everyday routine, and a dominant part of it at that.
