Ong Mei Ting/Have new media change our lives for the better?

New media do change our lives for the better because it provides convenience to people who are affected by it. An example would be the usage of Windows messenger through the Internet, in which allowing conversation to occur between two parties at different places. By doing so, this allows us to communicate easily without having the trouble of meeting up. This has changed our lives for the better because it would save us the extra effort to meet up. Moreover, this allows information to be carried across two parties. Hence, new media has changed our lives for the better through the convenience it has provided. However, this may lead to the change in the relationship between close friends. As internet has become the medium to enable us to have convenience, this would mean that they would be able to play games and chat over the internet. This would result in friends being the same as strangers the have known through the internet. Despite, the fact that this may happen, it would be unwise to make such conclusion because they are still able to meet in other placessuch as their worklace or institutes.Therefore, new media has changed our lives for the better through the convenience it brings.