So we don't actually have to start posting for class until next week, but I've been thinking about this a bit and I'm feeling a little too enthusiastic to wait, so I figure this is a good way to intro into this blog.  Especially since technically this isn't about any specific media that I've been exposed to this week.
In class yesterday, one of the things we talked about was how there's always a new "media panic."  There is always some new aspect of media that society, or at least part of it, is panicking over. 
Texting is going to make us incapable of face-to-face conversation.
Television ruins kids' attention spans.
Kids can't write by hand anymore because they're so used to typing.
The language of the internet and texting is ruining the English language.
Facebook makes people more likely to cheat on their significant others.
I'm sure you're familiar with the theme.  Some are more valid than others, and some lose their validity over time as we get used to things as a society or certain trends lose popularity or become obsolete (remember the panic over chatrooms?  Now they're practically nonexistent).
Now get a load of this, gang:

Beautiful.
As a math-teacher-in-training, I appreciate this a lot, especially because I've seen the value of certain technologies in the classroom when used appropriately and by someone who knows what they're doing.  This also brings to mind the speech given by Dolores Umbridge in the beginning of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, when Umbridge says that "progress for progress's sake must be prohibited," when really what she meant was, "Those of us in power don't like changes that weaken our power, especially when we don't understand them fully."
Now, I'm not saying that every change in our media and technology is good and desirable.  However, I certainly enjoy the wider perspective on things that the above quote provides.