Article: “Clicking for Love: How Match.com Changed the world of dating”
Someone in my family has used Match.com and showed me a little bit how it works, and it’s also free to look and browse around to see who’s in your area before you sign up. It is fascinating how many relationships actually start online in the present day, and I think it would be neat for the class to take a deeper look at this new form of meeting people and dating. The site has you enter in information about yourself, and then be able to ask questions and view pictures of potential people to date. This article I found talks about the founder of this online dating service, Gary Kremen, and the creation of his site that played a huge role in revolutionizing the dating world we know today. It covers the background of the website and of online dating in general and the types of affects and statistics it has brought into our society.
Article: “The Future of Skype”
Skype has become highly popular since its creation and has allowed for people to keep in contact in a more “realistic-seeming” way than before. Not only can you just hear each other’s voices, but Skype gives you the ability to feel like you’re experiencing contact with the person you are talking to by allowing you to see them; not to mention it is mostly free! This has had an impact on relationships and communication all around the world. This article is about where Skype plans to go in the future and what Skype allows people to do and experience. I think this new form of communication would be a good thing to take a deeper look at, and how being able to see the other person and get a visual glimpse into their surroundings has affected relationships and expectations in communication, and this article gave some insight to that.
Article: “Netflicks: The Sequel”
Netflicks has become one of the most talked about sites while basically shutting down all of the Blockbusters and video rental stores in the nation. This new idea of picking out what movie you want, clicking a few buttons, and never having to leave your home has taken over the video industry. This article takes a closer look at why Netflicks has been so extraordinarily successful. It talks about the personal things the site learns about you, creating lists for you based off of what you tell it you like, and allowing you to rate movies that come up. The article looks at how this site has become a very personal yet disconnected way to rent movies. It also takes a look at the future of Netflicks and DVD’s as a whole, which is very interesting because it is wondered if most movie-viewing experiences won’t be all online in the near-future. I think it would be good to take a look at this wide-spread change in movie sales and what it could look like in the future online.
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