Digital and print are used in everyone’s everyday life. Dan Blank makes plenty of good examples in “Why Digital is Better Than Print” and a lot of it makes sense. People use Digital a lot more in the past ten years rather than carrying around a book, a newspaper or going to the library. Digital makes a students life a ot easier, too. Digital is more useful than print because it is always there whenever you need it at the click of a button.
Digital is easier with finding information rather than searching over and over at a library. Dan Blank says, “ Digital Finds Ways to Be Useful, Print Waits”(Blank). Digital is always easy to get to because most people have a phone, computer or a tablet. At a library a person can not look at anyone’s work when researching and with digital people can look at anyone’s writings from anywhere around the world. People are not subjected to what is right there on paper.
With digital you are not wasting as much paper on books, magazines and newspapers. With a newspaper, a book or magazine the lifespan does not last long after the pages start getting ripped or something spills on it and than it goes into the garbage. Dan Blank says, “ The lifespan of a newspaper is incredibly short- just look at the trash bins at Penn Station in New York by 9:30am”(Blank). With digital you are not wasting as much paper on books, magazines and newspapers. When on a computer all a person has to do is just plug in and search. When a person does not want something from the internet all they would have to do is press delete and it is gone and no waste.
With the internet people can get what they wrote to anyone all over the world rather than just a local bookstore. Dan Blank says, “Digital Empowers the Mass; Print Has Gatekeepers” (Blank). More people can look at a person’s wok by just typing in one word and if that has anything to do with their topic it will pop up for someone to read. Almost everyone uses the internet so it has made it a lot easier for writers to get their work out to the public in a shorter period of time.
A person can find almost anyone on the internet from looking them up on Facebook and most of the time they are on if they know how to use a computer. Dan Blank says, “So many member if my family were holdouts on Facebook- refusing to even consider joining- UNTIL they realized that it was a portal to tons of family photos” (Blank). Looking at families photos on the internet from the other side of the country is a nice way to connect with people that have not seen each other in a while and makes people feel closer then they would with the occasional phone call on birthdays or holidays. Social media has opened a line of communication for a lot of people that have lost touch over the years. People also use the internet for finding love and many of these people have success.
Digital has helped the world in so many ways. If a person writes something and want people to see their work, all that person has to do is put it on the internet for the world to see and hopefully the right person will see their work and love it. Digital has made it so people all over the world can connect and become familiar with each other. Digital has saved a lot of trees since they are not using paper as much for books. The older generation that swore of the internet are now the one’s on Facebook and Single pages meeting their loved ones.
Work Cited
Blank, Dan. “Why Digital Is Better Than Print.” I Feel Fine: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Web. danblank.com. n. p. 5 August 2000. web.
