Generation Y: Digital Love and Hate

Generation Y or my generation was born at the peak of digital media. Being able to see and be part of the new inventions that are now so prevalent into days society such as, cell phones and computers. People are able to express themselves in a whole new manner and making their art more accessible to others. For example music and paintings with the internet flourishing as it is allows people to show case their work in 'binary style' to the whole world and not to just one sector or audience. So we are having more and more talented people being notice for their art because of that. Although it has a created a great resource to allow artist to get their work noticed it also is hurting them. Piracy has become the main issue in day to day life. The internet, DVD-R's or CD-R's makes it hard for the artist that do decide to showcase their art on a digital form more easily got to for people that want to either get it for free or sale their art. This has become most used I believe in literacy on the internet. College/High students copy and pasting information they found on to the internet into a paper they have to write for class. The newly found or created easiness of getting information off the internet has made todays people more about temporary knowledge only trying to remember what they need to get by because if they do need to get the information again they have easier resources to remember it by. Overall, The digital era has helped us a lot in a plenty of ways like medically, intellectually and other. But was is the consequence to all that greatness maybe be the loss of connection between people, the retaining of knowledge or even being to create art. I love digital media like any other but I do realize what it has made us and it is a very love and hate relationship.