Yet, it's easy to see why all of us have formed the habits that we do with using technology. Technology is an amazing piece of information that links us to everything we are and everything we are not. This linking of information has helped people find things they never would have experienced before.
If we talk about media habits from a non-internet technology stand point (i.e newspapers or the t.v.) then it's easy to say most college students would have little, to no habits with this median. Personally, I do not get the newspaper at my house because I live on my own but when at school every chance I get I remember to pick up an issue to catch up with what I have been missing what my no cable or no internet 40 year old house has been depriving me of. Which I believe is still important to do once in a while. I also make sure to check out (basically sniff around) any of the number of newspaper my father is devouring every morning. We also try and remember to check out the morning news when we actually wake up for when they show it.
Yet, from looking at a internet technology stand point many people have tons and tons of media habits they form. Personally WITHOUT the internet I would never be the person I am today. The things I am interested in and like are things so out there that without these habits I would be left completely alone with out any way to connect with people who enjoy the things I do.
Without the internet I would not be able to connect with sites like YouTube, I wouldn't be able to watch videos of the new hottest song I love to dance with, even though personally I am more of a fan of veoh which is slowly taking over the place of You Tube within the community of people who para para since the company that produces the videos are taking down accounts for these media habits and not buying officaial videos from them.
So without these medians such as YouTube and Veoh, fans like myself would be left out with buying $30 dvds just to be able to do what we like to do.
Another way I connect with people who enjoy to para para and the gyaru life style is using medians like Livejournal, which allows many different communities towards people interested in doing these sort of things. So that is one of my major media habits. I connect with most of my friends with using this site. It is a blog site that allows mass groups and communities for people to join in with and connect to make new friends. It also allows things like videos, songs, and pictures to be passed along people. Which is one of my favorite aspects of using livejournal is that I can now have access with millions of things that interest me at the span of just my fingertips
Or it could even be to just enjoy a rousing old hour of searching 4chan, a site which is as it claims, the place the internet goes to die and one of the favorite places of my friends. So I check it out now and then to understand where they come from to and to know the latest internet trend.
(Full of fail! You have won the internet)
I personally find these "nerdy" sites to be my biggest media habit. I think it's great that it's easy to access these forms because I am hope that these media habits of other people will make it easier for people who enjoy things like gyaru, anime, para para, or anything Japanese/foreign openly and accepted for these enjoyments.
I also think that these new advances in media habits will help people not feel so out of place in their own skin or feel like they have to be ashamed for being so geeky. In fact I love being a girl gamer and going to gaming forms, personally. I enjoy talking about the next nerdy thing on the internet and laughing right along side it with my friends. Because remember:
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