Essay #2 Journal 5

Today when i entered the hip hop newsgroup i noticed that there were a lot of new post. One post that caught my attention was one about a new hip hop song that was just released. When i clicked on the post i immediately began to read the discussion to see if people liked or disliked the song. Some of the comments were quite interesting because people were saying things like the song is good but i hate the artist who's singing it. I also noticed that a number of people were talking about things within the discussion that had nothing to do with the new song. One comment in particular was centered around the election. It seemed like they just wanted to spark people's interest on the election but i strongly feel this was not the place for it. All in all from my 5 day observation i have become better familiar with the Usenet medium. I have also come to understand why the free rider problem is such a problem within this medium.