Xinfang

The exponential rate of new media users allow people to communicate and exchange ideas effectively within split seconds. New media includes internet, interactive television networks and multimedia information services. It helps to increase the interactive mass media and ease our hunger for knowledge. For instance, social networking website, Facebook allows their users to post as and when they want to, there is little censorship. Statistics show that there are up to 500 million facebook users each day and is ranked the world's top three search engine. With such accessibility, people are expose to the convenience of information and know what is happening around them, hence they would not be ignorant. However, there are bound to be unreliable information in the internet. Certain views and opinions can be biased. It is dangerous by the speed of how new media helps us to exchange information, there can be a negative influence. For instance, sensitive issues such as racial biasedness can lead to detrimental effects such as the instability of country. It might stir up conflicts and unhappiness among people. Hence, provided that new media has a high degree of censorship and yet not reducing any neccessary information, it have changed our lives for the better.