For Out of class essay #5, choose an area of online social media and explore how it has altered the way people had traditionally communicated. Some compelling examples could be the different ways people meet, develop friendship and even fall in love. You could explore how people today acquire information, learn new skills and concepts and become informed about world events you could investigate how careers are formed using this technology and how one rises up the "virtual" corporate ladder in the computer age, which is much more far-reaching than the industrial revolution of the late 19th century. Talk to a farmer in a rural province in China (and you can using a smart phone) about how much rice is going for on the open market. Further, you may examine how the technology has made us more creative in areas of art, photojournalism, music and language. No matter what facet of the social media and the internet you choose to deconstruct (break apart and analyze from different angles) you have to consider the negative and dark side as well. After all, the on-line digital world is not all lollipops and roses. Consider how our privacy has been compromised online and how strangers could gain access to the most confidential and intimate details of our lives. It has been a free for all for people to just blurt it out without concern for others' feelings or sensibilities, a haven for bullies a la Trump, leading to a total breakdown of civil discourse. While we can revel in how the internet has provided us with a tool for creative self-expression, it has at the same time put into jeopardy our most cherished and fundamental rights under the first amendement of the constitution. Research paper has to be 1650 words