How New Media Entertainment Affect Your Life?

There are plenty of entertainment-based social networking platforms that could be related to. Like most of the teenagers, I too, keep track of favorite TV shows, latest music, on-the-chart movies and upcoming release of books through new media.  

Portals such as Foundd, Goodreads, Last.Fm, Bit Torrent and Rotten Tomatoes are just a few examples.

Working as a movie-recommendation engine that learns about your tastes, Foundd requires some time to set up. After rating a bunch of films, it allows you to see a tailored “Watch List” of the films you may like to watch. That’s how its algorithm predicts your selection pattern.

Foundd is another amazing portal. Through it, I can create a group list comprising up to five people. Foundd then suggests films according to the pattern of the hits on the content by that list.

But if you are an avid mover watcher, like me, and don’t want others’ influence to influence you, Foundd also gives you an option to just directly pick your next flick through the search engine.

For book readers, Goodreads is the king of social reading. I can share my progress as I work through a book; I can create a to-read list, and can moreover add ratings and reviews to books I’ve read.

It makes Goodreads a great place to connect with other readers or reading groups.

Goodreads allows me to keep track of my personal book collection by organizing books I’ve read, or want to read, into different collections, or ‘shelves’. Quite a fun in mingling with fellow book lovers and discuss latest literary releases.

What’s life without movies, books and music? With its integrated scrobbling feature, Last.fm can pull in details on the music I listen to with very little effort involved. I have a habit of looking back at my listening habits so this is really a great way to do it.

I can also get suggestions for new music, view my own listening data in a chart and connect with other people possessing similar taste for the genre.

And who in today’s world will want to watch a new without have read a preview or plot of it first? Though Pakistan still lacks in formal education for film critics, but things are pretty different in the Western parts of the world. Film-critics are as professionals as any filmmaker.

Rotten Tomatoes is a platform dedicated for such critics to submit their reviews on films. Originally designed for film lovers to visit the portal and check latest movies and read reviews on them from critics with authentic credibility, the Tomatoes help in developing a good understanding of films.

With films come torrents. Ethically I shouldn’t be advocating it as torrents encourage piracy which is a cyber-crime in many countries. But for those like me, with little budget, torrents are a blessing in disguise to fulfill our daily doses of film needs — without which, it’d be difficult for us to survive.