I'm still alive but I'm barely breathing -Newspapers, Radios, and Movies; A Response to Class Discussions

It seems that with every new form of technology, demassification is eventually inevitable. But one thing I've noticed from the lectures and from personal, real life experience is that even though they demassify, older forms of technology still manage to survive today in modern time.
So why do these forms of technology still exist today if most of their popularity seems to have disappeared? Because they all have unique aspects that people still tend to enjoy.

For newspapers it's because they are-

• Portable! People can carry them around and whip them out whenever they feel like getting their daily dosage of the news.
• Low-Tech! You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out how to read a newspaper.
• Cheap! They're only a few bucks and provide entertainment.
• Tradition! Chances are if your grandparents read the newspaper every morning it's because of tradition, and tradition is a repeated cycle.
• Physical objects! You can carry them with you and their stories aren't just fragments and pixel creations of the Internet.
•   Non-Linear! You can jump from story to story and don't have to follow a straight path like you would have to do on news website/app on your phone.

For radios it's because they are-

• Entertaining! When you're on a long car ride you can just turn on the radio and listen to music, a comedy talk show, a sports game, etc., and boom! Instant entertainment!
• Emotionally effective! Hearing someone's voice, whether it be the tragic tone or a jubilant, happy voice, can make you feel the same emotions.
• A group experience! People can gather around radios and witness/hear everything being said at the same time and together.

For movies it's because they provide-

• An overwhelming experience! This being self-explanatory, when you're at the movies you get an experience that is very different than watching something at home.
• Darkness! Being surrounded by darkness adds to the over-whelming, intense mood.
• 3-D! You get to witness movies in the third dimension, something most people can't do on their televisions at home.
• Surround-Sound! The rich, pure sound quality at movie theaters make it all the more enjoyable experience.
• Quiet surroundings with no distractions! This is how it goes most of the time, but these aspects make the experience more pleasant.
• Social experience! You can use going to the movies as an excuse to meet up with friends and have something to do.
• Cultural relevance! You obtain bragging rights for seeing the best movie of the year the first time it was publicly shown.

All these unique aspects are just a few examples of why these forms of technologies are still around. The fact that they all offer something different to their audience and continue to thrive on that measly little thread of hope is what I find to be really fascinating, and makes me wonder if something that demassifies can ever really disappear from existence. For example, look at MySpace; Facebook demassified MySpace, but MySpace is still brought up in conversations every now and then despite its substantial lack of popularity.