How Fast is Too Fast?

In Tiziana Terranova's essay, "Free Labor Producing Culture For the Digital Economy" she discusses a lot about how many of the work done over the internet and for the digital economy is overshadowed. Terranova also discusses how in order to even put up a website you need to constantly be updating that website if not weekly, daily. But then there also comes with that the need for the most recent up to date software in order to update your website. Along with that you need people who are willing to do all of these things such as programers, designers, and workers who in turn are up to date on everything going on in the internet world. Terranova states that the rate of production has become so fast that it is hard to stay up to date when everything is changing so fast. It is almost as though you just start to be accustomed to the newest software then an even newer version of that comes out and then you have to learn that one even faster in order to stay up to date.

This reminds me of Facebook and how it is constantly changing and being updated on a regular basis. Since I have joined Facebook in 2007, it has changed and been updated more times than I can count. Facebook was started by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 and since then has become one of the top social networking sites of this generation. Not only just a social networking site, it has become the newest and most relevant form of communication among this generation as well. As Terranova points out in her essay, "the sustainability of the Internet as a medium depends on massive amounts of labor" (page 16). This being said, she is right. If Facebook and other technologies, specifically the internet did not have constant labor and people updating software and websites on a day to day basis, it would not succeed. People like change, they need to be constantly updated and they want the newest and most reliable form of any type of technology. However people tend to forget that there are actual people behind these constant updates working harder and harder everyday in order for the rest of the population to be updated daily with the newest and most modified form of technology.