Considering the fact that when most high school students
have finished their careers in their hometowns with their families, they are
completely focused on what is going to happen to them in the next four
years. Who they will become, what
friends they will make, and how the work they put in will place them where they
will be for a majority of their life are many of the first things that come to
mind. When they show up to college, and
are completely engulfed by friends, schoolwork, extracurricular activities, and
most commonly the social aspect of college.
The last thing that students tend to think about is what might be going
on in the world around them. According
to the notes we took in class, most of the students acquired current events and
news from parents or older influences in their lives that would somewhat expose
them for the most part to news broadcasting channels or the radio. Another common source that college students
tend to use is social networking websites.
Although social networking sites such as twitter, facebook, etc. don’t
directly post current events or news articles, many of the users on those
social networking sites repost articles from news websites that interest them
on their personal pages or other’s pages.
An upside to this source is that it can be quickly accessed via the
internet, they are usually brief and to the point, the variety of friends
allows for different opinions and news, and some can be tailored to your
interests. Downsides would be limitation
of news of your friends with similar interests, not a lot of details, and that it
is easy for the news to be less accountable.
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