Internet Takes Away from TV or Helps It?

Is the internet going to replace television one day? Will people flock to their computers to catch their favorite shows every week? At one point this is the way we thought that the world was going to turn to and the television would slowly become a thing of the past. This idea has gone in a completely different way though. The internet has worked to make TV even more than it was before. Thanks to all the social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, advertising for events has increased on the internet which leads to a larger amount of people watching the events on TV. People also seem to use the internet as they watch different events to converse with friends or to tweet about them. From our reading we saw that one in seven people were on the internet during this years Superbowl. I can say that I was one of those people and was also part of those that was constantly posting my thoughts on the game and the commercials on Facebook as they happened.

I think that the internet has also helped television by being able to catch up with past shows. This allows the viewer to stay on track with shows that they missed so that in the upcoming week they are able to watch their show at the scheduled time and raise the viewing audience of the show.