Daily Me - Republic 2.0

The idea of the Daily Me being a perfect utopian Internet experience is something that I feel that Yahoo! has tried to do with their homepage. I signed up for an account back ten or so years ago and it was very bare bones with the only things I used it for was email and fantasy baseball. However, in the next few years I found myself not visiting Yahoo! as much and then when I would, there were noticeable changes all around the website. They incorporated a new way of personalizing what was on your own user page. I took a little time to add a customized background on my page and added things like sports headlines for my favorite Dallas area teams, local movie showtimes, and local news headlines. It was a nice set-up because I could just browse the page and get content from each section, and if I wanted to add it was very convenient to go in and add Finance advice or job listings for the surrounding area when I needed to acquire a part time job. I decided to go back and visit the site and see how it had changed, and I was glad to see it had not changed as much I had at thought it would. I still had the American flags in the background with my local, sports, and entertainment news, and the movie listings were at the bottom and my fantasy baseball leagues on the top left of the page. It was pretty much exactly as I left it. It was nice to see, but I noticed that there were things that I forgot were on the page that were things I did not care for but left on and kept for future viewing. I thought this was very democratic of me, and the author of the book would think positively on this considering that he believes that a perfect utopian Me page threatens the democratic ideals of America. I don't think I will continue to visit My Yahoo! page, but it definitely led me to the idea that even at my young age I was being democratic with how I used my personalized page and it was neat to think I could be that way without even knowing.