There is More to the Internet Than Facebook and Email.

I like to think of myself as your everyday online user, an average 22 year college student old, growing up in the boom of the World Wide Web, with the knowledge to use the internet daily. I have a few email accounts, use Twitter and Facebook, and Googled all my unanswered life questions. So how eye opening can my final advertising course, New Media Drivers License, at Michigan State University be? Sure all my advertising teachers were talking about what the internet means to advertising programs, new media this, online worlds that, but none of them were actually teaching it. Once I saw New Media Drivers License being offered last year, I knew it would be essential to my advertising degree at Michigan State. After persistently begging for an override I was on my way to that Drivers License. But as far as I was concerned I already had my permit, one parallel parking job away from the New Media Drivers License, or so I thought. WRONG. I didn't even have the key in the ignition.

After sitting in our introductory class I realized I didn't even have the key in the ignition of new media. First assignment get a: email account- "check", Facebook - "check", LinkedIn- "check", StumbleUpon-"fall where?", Digg-"do I need a shovel?", Delicious- "what tastes so good?" What were these sites? The social bookmarking sites I discovered like, Digg, Delicious, and StumbleUpon for my first assignment, made me realize I could virtually find anything I wanted online. Not to mention the hours of entertainment Stumbleupon leaves me with. I had no idea searching for the best articles for your questions could be so easy, so reliable, so not Google.

Digg became my new news website. Anything you want without editorial censorship. Articles are submitted by subscribers and voted on by Diggs community. You get to vote for the best articles and say what is worth people's time. I happened to miss the Opening Ceremony for the 2010 Winter Olympics, wanted to see what happened, any controversy? Found the best articles with a recap, I even found a 360 degree panoramic view of the Ceremony! This can make searching the internet so simple, why read an article on the new iPad if it is completely bias and wrong? Why not read one with the most votes that the internet world actually believes is the best? This way you can actually have the right information without searching the internet for hours. Digg this link to Michigan State's New Media Drivers License.

Not continually searching anymore, what will I do with all my extra time New Media Drivers License has left me with? StumbleUpon things, why not? What an entertaining way to procrastinate homework, Facebook was boring me anyways. Simply check your interests and click stumble. Finding the funny, serious or obscure web content about whatever you like.

All this gained after my first assignment? Cheers Michigan State advertising program! New Media Drivers License might be the most valuable class Michigan State University's advertising program will leave me with. See what it can teach you.

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