It was an interesting day, all in all. I'm not sure what I learned, but I feel certain I learned something, if only because I was more sensitive to media than usual and the experience felt enlightening. Sometimes you might know things, but it takes the experience to really understand them. 

Well, there was something that maybe wasn't ever really a conscious thought before. It seemed that although I could access the media I really wanted online, or just on my computer, once I stepped outside there were all manner of media I didn't expect and wasn't particularly interested in encountering. Perhaps it has more to do with the sites that I do visit online, or the advertisement-blocking programs that I run, or other things, but for that day that's what it seemed like to me. 

I'm not really surprised at the amount of media I encounter everyday. After all, most of it is media that I'm looking for. In fact, one could say that I live from media to media. If there was a film of my life, I'm sure much too much of it would just be footage of me sitting at a desk, peering into a bright screen. It might sound sad, but I've worked a few weeks at an office, one of those filled with cubicles, and all day long the people there stare at screens, working. Nothing compares to that, I think. It's not so much the fact that we're looking at media as the types of media we're looking at that's important.  

I think media really is the modern form of social event. There have always been things create simply to occupy time or thought, be it festivals or celebrations or just a really good book. Technology changes the wrapping but people are the same. Because of technology I can filter the content that I consume with pinpoint accuracy, whenever I like. There are so many options now.

This is why I'm wary of studies and researches that like to talk about how media has changed human nature, or the great social environment. They never seem to consider that what we have today is closer to what everyone is actually like, and that all the limitations before were like little obstacle races people jumped through to be a part of society. Certainly etiquette and mannerisms in the past seems more needlessly complicated than the ones today.