Will Technology Bring an End to Ways of the Past?

Are bulletin boards and flyers becoming a thing of the past? With all the advancements in technology in the past few years you never even need to leave your computer to find out the latest about what is going on in the world. There used to be a time when people actually used to have to print out flyers and brochures to tell the masses about something they felt was important. Today it’s as easy as typing a few words on your keyboard and clicking send. The information age has made us more available to each other at all hours of the day and all you need is a computer, or now even just a cell phone. With all this new technology making information so easily to be consumed billboards and paper copy might be a dying breed.

You would be hard pressed to find someone these days without a facebook, and just about everyone has an email address or cell phone, and with these accounts and devices comes the ability to transfer information at the speed of light. Everyday millions of emails are sent out and received as are millions of text messages, and facebook messages, and twitter “tweets”. But with information constantly being sent back and forth to people daily is there an overload of information being presented, and is that overload downplaying the care and personal aspect that flyers and bulletin boards used to bring us.

Kaitlin Kampana a senior says “Every day I get tons of facebook messages telling me about parties and bar specials it’s just overwhelming, and they are the same thing every week it’s just like I am getting email spam but now on my facebook, I have to delete people that continually message me about things I don’t care about. The trouble with all of these media out lets and emails is that people are not advertising in a productive way they just spam you with everything.”

Eric Elmer a senior said “My email is the only information outlet I can truly depend on, because it normally has to be given to someone by me. Facebook can get overwhelming with all the promoters constantly sending you messages It would be nice if they took a more creative approach.” It seems that everyone is soon getting tired of the spam and nonsense floating around the web. Elmer went on to say “ If someone really wants to get my attention about something you have to be creative and stand out from the spammers that’s what truly catches people’s attention coming at them with something they don’t normally experience.”

So as it may seem that bulletin boards and flyers might be a thing of the past, but in todays over saturated information super highway it might truly pay off to think outside the box.