Why I Heart My Media

I love media because it makes the world a lot smaller. By using Instagram or Facebook, I can get inspired by people all over the world (whom I would probably never meet in real life). I can find whatever information I need on the Internet and by using media I can share my own opinion or get involved in discussions.

Having said this, I sometimes also hate media, because I feel like I’m investing too much time in looking at what other people do, instead of living my own life the way I want to.

Nadia Heemskerk

I hold media in my heart because without it, I wouldn’t have found my dream job of being an automotive journalist. At this point in time media platforms such as Youtube allow me to get a feel for cars I’m never able to afford. My hopes for the future are that that same platform will allow me to drive those cars as a motoring journalist. Media also allows me to share the passion with other enthousiasts around the world on a variety of online forums. Media and my passion are inseparable.

Morris Nieuwenhuis

I love my media because it sets me free from everything, an other life, an other dimension. I can share everything. My creativity, my friends, my love and so on. I can show people my personality and the way I think. I can be whoever I want to be, love whatever I want to love and share whatever I want to share. I inspire and get inspired.

Suzanne Wopereis

I love my media because it brings people closer together. It lets you make connections all over the world. For example, my mother had coffee in Amsterdam with two cousins from Melbourne, who she contacted with through Facebook. Their meet up would have never happend if it wasn’t for Facebook. I think this is a beautiful thing, and for me someting that i really love about media nowadays.

Puck Voordouw

I heart my media because it allows me to watch lectures from the comfort of my own bed.

….and make memes like this one.

 

Normagh Heaney 11374365

It’s really hard not to heart media. Media is the sole reason ‘I heart ___’ is an understandable thing to say. Media is the sole reason I could have phrased the first sentence ‘It’s really heart not to hard media’, and most readers would have understood the world play. Media is the sole reason the word ‘media’ exists and has its current meaning. Media is the sole reason I am currently studying a course I heart. Media is the sole reason I am able to communicate with my friends as much as I do. Media is the sole reason my parents met. Media is the sole reason my grandmother did not die before she could give birth to my dad. Media is the sole reason I know that death is inevitable.

 

I guess that media is the sole reason I exist.

Why I Heart My Media? It is a question I don’t often think about. Media are so integrated in my life that I take them for granted. However, the moments I realize I do love my media is when they stop working or when somebody I care about moves away. For me, media and especially social-media, gives me the ability to keep in touch with friends, family, loved ones who live far away, on other continents.

Even though keeping in touch over social-media is not the same as seeing each other in real life, it is something. And it definitely is something we all take for granted. Think about it, how special is it that we can send a message to a friend on the other part of town but we can just as easily send a message to a friend in America. For me that is the main reason why I heart my media. It gives me the possibility to keep in touch with friends and family when I don’t have the opportunity to be there and interact face to face.

Florence Hautekeete

Ik ben opgegroeid met de reisverhalen van mijn ouders. Mijn vader is in zijn studententijd lang in Zuidoost-Azië geweest. Laatst vertelde hij nog over hoe, bij elke nieuwe plek waar hij kwam, de eerste stop het postkantoor was. Om te kijken of er een nieuwe brief van zijn ouders, mijn opa en oma, lag en er zelf een te sturen.

Nu, ongeveer 30 jaar later, is het mijn tijd om de wereld rond te reizen. Hoewel ik nog altijd een geromantiseerd idee heb over het krijgen en versturen van brieven, hou ik van media omdat zij reizen zo veel makkelijker maken. Zo ben ik bijvoorbeeld de afgelopen jaren nooit in hetzelfde land als mijn vader tijdens zijn verjaardag. Dit jaar belde ik vanuit een bloedhete, zonovergoten, Palestijnse stad naar mijn pa. Die samen met mijn moeder op dat moment in Ierland in de kou en de regen aan het wandelen was. Het jaar daarvoor zat ik in New York, daarvoor in Parijs en komend jaar ben ik hoogstwaarschijnlijk ook niet in Nederland. (Al stuur ik ook altijd per post een cadeautje, deze komen natuurlijk nooit op de juiste dag aan.)

Dankzij media lijk ik een iets betere dochter. Maar bovenal is het fijn de bekende stemmen van ouders te horen, mijn broertje foto’s te sturen en mijn familie via facebook te updaten waar ik ook ben in de wereld.

I created a short video about ”Why I Heart Media”.

 

Sebastiaan Eckmann

I heart my media because it provides me of information. We no longer have to write our papers with an encyclopedia: we can use google to find information about, well, everything. I’m also very fond of watching documentaries, because they can give you new insights about anything. Furthermore, I think it’s very important to know what’s going on in the rest of the world. Newspapers, the television and even social media provide us of this information.

I think that all of this new information that’s easier to obtain, makes us people more openminded and understanding, and we should be grateful of that.

Veronique v.d. Berg