The inception of new media has been characterized by the move from the traditional media such as television, music and movies to an amalgamation of the traditional media and computer-enabled mediums and devices. The growth of new media has encompassed much of the 21st century by far and tends to rob headlines and staggering information. But frankly, has new media changed us as human beings? We can now constantly see ourselves plugged in and be encapsulated by these 'realities' that have been bestowed upon our consciousness. The new media has allowed us as human beings to perceive the virtual world as something that is increasingly taking a physical form. We are now plagued with the influence of such socially satisfying yet largely homogeneous forums such as Facebook and MySpace to grant people the liberty to put on personas that appeal to the masses of people watching from the stands. These ideals have manifested themselves and have caused people to constantly change and 'better' themselves in order to meet society's expectation of them. The creation of a surreal form of our own self has us losing our individual tweaks and quirks and rather creating socially optimal drones out of our own selves. In all eventuality, we may end up losing ourselves to the very constructs of new media, inadvertently becoming it. Our lives will be the entertainment others, on the stands, desire.
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