Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Networking Laws

            Of the laws we looked at in class on Thursday, I think that Sarnoff’s Law is the most interesting. I agree that the value of a network increases linearly with the amount of people on it. I think that the more people the network has the more valuable it is because there is more to interact with and more people to talk to. If there were only one or two people on a network, then you would obviously not get as much out of it as you would if there were two hundred people on the network.
            In five years from now, I think that people will still get their information from social media and the internet but it will be in a different way. For example, I do not think that Facebook and other social media sites will be as popular as they are today. I think that there will be a more direct way to get notifications about the news and information. Social media will definitely still be around and a medium for news and information but it will be presented differently than it is today.

Bringing this back to Sarnoff’s law, if more people are watching the same TV network, then more people will be talking about the same news and it will make the network more valuable. However, if only a few households are watching a news program then they will not have many people to talk about that news with. If more people are talking about the same news broadcast then the network becomes more valuable because the news being presented is being valued and talked about by more viewers. If more people are talking about it, then they are most likely posting it on social media, which also makes the network more valuable because more people will see it.