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Media is something that my generation has always known to be able to shift or even change at that drop of a pen. It has become so quick In my generation for a new article to be published or for us to be able to go from one topic to another in a matter of seconds. But with all of this and this speed comes some other serious problems from how to regulate all of this new media that is flooding in or how to be able to view all of it and to be able to decide what news is actually truthful or not. But in wanting to gain some clarity on this issue, I decided to interview my mom and ask her some questions about media when she was my age. 

My mom who just turned 56, has actually become very social media savvy over the years, maybe her use of technology and to be able to understand comes from her job. But my mom is on almost all social media sites, and with that I wanted to know how was social media in her day. Her response it wasn’t. She said that in her day if you wanted to be social you had to actually talk to someone on the phone or person to person. She said social media was not around then and that the only media that really existed for her at that time was mass media, such as news channels or the paper, but that the apps that we know as social media did not ever exist for her when she was my age. But with all of this comes some new and exciting shifts that our parents have been able to be a part of. But with all of this comes so much more I then really wanted to ask my mom what was the mass media like back in her time. 

She told me that when she was growing up she had very few tv channels as did mostly everyone back then and that everyone got their news from that or the newspaper, which would be delivered everyday or she could run to the convenient store to be able to get one to be able to read and keep up with what was going on in her world. She said that the world we live into today with getting so much information so quick is nothing like how it use to be back in her day. She said that it would take days and sometimes even weeks to reach her small town newspaper and then by that time that story had passed and the world was onto its next story. And that it was just so so very hard for her to be able to keep up and go from one story to the next story and to really be able to feel informed about the topic she said almost felt impossible for her during that generation. 

In really interviewing my mom I thought it was so interesting to hear from her that social media never really existed for her.