"Enough about You" by Brian Williams Response

Summary:
 In "Enough about You" by Brian Williams, Williams describes the coming of the User-Generated Generation. The main cause, he argues, is the invention of the internet and it's abundance of information that has created a dynamic called the celebration of the self. William reminisces of a time where conversations and personal diaries were kept personal and how people, for the love of the self, decide to project their personal lives on the internet for the public to see, believing that their personal lives are important enough to record. He continues by describing how the many options of news media allows people to only absorb the information they want to hear. Williams finally questions the reader of, with the media more democratic, "what will the effect be on democracy?"

Response:
I agree with much of what Williams describes in his article. Many people are too quick to share their personal lives with the world using Facebook or Twitter. Also, many people narrowing their field of awareness with what they want to know is causing important information to be drowned in a sea of unnecessary knowledge. However, having a myriad of information and multiple sources for news, supplied to us by the internet, is a much better alternative than before the "User-Generated Generation." Our old reliance on TV news media made us subject to what they deemed important news material and to each individual news channel's biased opinions. Because of these flaws, they present half-truths, display opinions as fact, and choose to ignore important information. I prefer crazy, out-of-control quantity of information than a controlled, limited, and "reliable" source.