News

If we're being honest, as much as I'm embarrassed to admit it, I get most of my news from Facebook. Back in my younger years when my mom drove me to school, I got my news by listening to NPR on the drive to and from school, everyday. Now that my wings have spread and I'm living by myself, I've stopped looking at reliable news sources. I used to get the Christian Science Monitor and I would always read about international stories but never so much in the USA. 
Honestly, I don't think Facebook is the worst source of information. I have so many friends of so many different age groups and socioeconomic classes that someone is bound to post something about everything. Whether it's a sport event, weather, shooting, and anything in-between. Someone will post about it. Once someone posts about it I can google it and read about it on a more reliable news source which is what I usually do. 
I also get a lot of my information from my friends. When we're talking things come up in conversation about what's going on in the world. 
A lot of my classes this quarter, including this one, are about news especially technology and communication so in my classes I've been learning a lot. Since at college I don't have a radio or a television I don't get any information through those sources. 
I don't really know what's going on in reality. Whenever I go on the New York Times website, which I've been going on more frequently because of this class, there's a ton of stuff going on that I had no idea about. Especially political stuff. On Facebook my friends talk about political stuff the least and when they do they are usually long rants that I just glance over because they are usually very opinionated. I know it's a bad thing that I'm not a very informed citizen and I didn't really realize how bad I was until writing this paper.