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It is true that mass media and internet may have taken a large amount of time in people's lives, thereby making available a large quantities of information to be available at disposal. This has made us more wary of accepting the information available to us by careful scrutiny.

The boom in the technology from late 20th century and the advent of internet has predisposed us with a humungous database of information. Not only we have zillions of bytes being consumed everyday via web, but also we have various other means to gather our information. Mass media, an ever involving field, has contributed significantly to satisfy the ever rising curiosities of day to day world. Whether it would to have a hygiene on political matters, or to spend time on E-commerce sites, both internet and media have played a key role in engaging mass communication and mass consumerism. But with this plethora of tasks ranging from gathering information to sorting them, we have been aware of the fact that it has also maintained or rather increased our ability to select on particular things. For example, a child who never had access to large library of books while dealing with a difficult subject has been able to scour through plenty of information via internet and yet arrive on the best of sources to build his focus and fundamentals. Similarly in the places where internet is still not available, mass media has given a lot of options to consumers , where they have been able to choose their favourite channels to gather the erudite information. This all shows that we may be focussing on most of the things initially, but at the end we are sorting through this large set and focussing on only what's rudimentary.

Backing up our claim on selective discard, is the very fact that we have been able to make distinctive and clear choices on the information we want to process through these mediums. For example a science scholar is more aware of following some particular literary articles on internet for his knowledge and similarly a home-maker is tuning to some particular shows to learn how to cook. While youtube has given us uncountable channels to follow, we are still subscribing to only a single few while making selective choices. The marketing by dish companies in many countries on 3-month, 6-month, 12- month packs, also have started incorporating strategies to provide its user the option of having only the selective channels based on either popularity or regionalism. This all proves that while there has been no dearth of the information available to general human being, they are still being selective on focussing on what their wants are.

As a ever-evolving species, we are always prone on making selective choices. Even when presented with a disparate choices, our minds have been capable enough to filtering out the less important information and retaining the ones we tend to associate ourselves more to. So while our focus has been shorter, but it has been incisive and cogent when it comes to doing the sorting. In all our instincts our growing up ,we have made clear choices in processing the information either coming from nature, or now for example, world wide web and mass media. We have been able to find out our best interests in political, socio-economic, literary, entertainment matters well by rummaging through the less important resources and landing our focus on best ones.

To thereby conclude, yes the overall effect has been indeed a positive one. Information will continue to grow as technology grows, and so does the caliber of human mind to divert focus on important things. Our interests will be the key factors in determining our focus and what we would want to invest our precious, time and resources in.