Favorite Reading

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My favorite reading would have to be about Second Life. I just found the whole concept of how you can create a whole other person if you wanted to. It allows you to basically create an image of your self in the way you wish to be seen. Some create what they already are and some create something completely differnet then what they are today. I found this most interesting because I feel this is what the internet and Social Networking sites allow you to do. They allow you to create what ever it is you want to create. In the real world the only way you can truly create is by changing you style of clothing or something small like that. Online you can change so much and the internet allows you to do this. There is nothing stopping you from being who you want to be and nothing stopping you from becoming something you wish to be viewed as. Second Life offers so much to people. That is why I enjoyed reading about Second Life so much.

-SOUTHPAW

What I learned/Favorite Thing/ Least Favorite/How can class Improve

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After taking this course I learned many things but also learned a very key thing. This key thing I learned is the value of technology. With out it we are a different world. Communication is something that is always being taken place and technology has made communication grow beyond comprehension. Talking to someone from five different countries is something that can easily be done no a days. People have been given a freedom to express feelings that they never had before. People can be who they want and even have some fun and make up an entirely different life. Social networking has brought socializing to another level and in my opinion has made it even better then it has been. People are more accessible and are able to venture out more then if technology was not around. My favorite thing in this class was reading everyone elses blogs. It let me view other peoples perspective and thoughts on topics. Some people even convinced me to believe them over myself. My least favorite thing was how long the readings were. The readings almost seem to be unbearably longs and almost made me lose focus. If I could improve the class I would make shorter readings but that's just my opinion. Until next time!

-SOUTHPAW

Most Interesting Readings and Most Interesting Thing about Concepts

 The main readings I found to be most interesting would be readings that I could relate too. Such readings would be about Facebook and blogging. I never had a great interest towards blogging but since I have been blogging every week I have grown very fond of it. I enjoyed reading about how blogging can be used and what others have used it for. It is crazy how it essentially is another world that sometimes many people would rather be apart of then the real world. I also enjoyed reading about facebook. I myself like facebook and find it to be very useful. Reading about how facebook is growing so rapidly and being used in ways that make online communication reach new levels is fascinating. Lastly I like how we read articles that were from before the social networking era. People back then had some amazingly accurate ideas. Some things I read basically predicted the future. They had visions about where communication would go and technology made it a reality. It was interesting to read all of this because it was like watching a timeline before my eyes. I saw the beginning middle and end.

-SOUTHPAW

Whats so special about sony's massive data breach?

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This article is talking about the recent hacking of the Sony PlayStation network. This hacking is a rime example that not everything is perfect. Technology has brought so much to the world today and seems as if it is perfect in every way but it is not. It always seems that with every good thing there is something that makes it not perfect. Some examples can be that certain food taste amazing but it is extremely bad for you, alcohol can make someone feel good but too much will make your life hell, sex is great but there is the chance of an STD, cars can get you from place to place but your tires may pop and technology such as PlayStation is amazing but there are hackers!! What people need to realize is that things like this always happen that's why you should always be careful with what you put online. The main reason this is becoming such a big deal is because of the size of the hacking. The article says about 77 million customers were hacked and that is a lot of people! We all should just be very careful and hopefully technology will advance to a point were privacy can be guaranteed.

-SOUTHPAW

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110428/wr_nm/us_sony_stolendata;_ylt=AtqOf5nQkG_nwMLcfYxDdbAjtBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTJuNzMzOWhpBGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMTEwNDI4L3VzX3Nvbnlfc3RvbGVuZGF0YQRwb3MDNwRzZWMDeW5fYXJ0aWNsZV9zdW1tYXJ5X2xpc3QEc2xrA2FuYWx5c2lzd2hhdA--  

World Wide Web

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The title of the article says a lot in its self. World Wide anything is a bold statement to make because to have something be world wide it needs to be huge! The article talks about how the world wide web had certain expectations before it was available. The idea behind the world wide web was to offer a place that is full of information and knowledge that is available and from all around the world. These expectations were met and then some. The world wide web became so popular and abundant that it grew to unimaginable proportions. The world wide web is full of information from all over the world. The one downfall is viruses and hackers. With the amount of options available on the web it is easy to hide a virus or steal information. Having so much information is great but it has its flaws. As long as you are careful though everything should be fine.

-SOUTHPAW

A Virtual Death and A Real Dilemma

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So this article showed something that I take into consideration whenever I read something online. Trolls are talked about in the article and trolls are people who say certain things to grab peoples attention or to have people believe them. Most of the time they are no expert in the subject matter they are talking about. This is something that I can not stand. I have a very hard time believing anything I read online. When reading online I try to go to sites that seem to be very professional or at least well known. Especially when it comes to medical advice. Just think about someone in desperate need of help of some sort or have a simple question a real doctor can answer, yet they read false information and then problems or harm are done to them. I try to stay away from question and answer sites such as Answers.com. I find that people online think they know it all and i find that those people sometimes can have bias opinions or do not really know every aspect of what they are talking about. Although I may be wrong because I am on a blogging website talking about something I may not be an expert in myself. Yet if I am wrong does that prove my theory wrong or correct? think about it lol

-SOUTHPAW

New Apps....About time

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So the article I read was talking about the new apps that are coming out. Some for example involve adding page breaks when writting on certain devices so people can know how many pages they have written without having to print. What I got out of this article is a sense of dependence, obsession and addiction. The overall theme was basically how people are in need of more advanced technology to perform tasks they have.The author is a teacher and his classroom is through online teachings such as our own blogging class. Yet he is basically saying his class is not running perfectly smoothly because he is in need of more advanced technology. I find this to be ridicules. The amount of technology available today is amazing and everyday I am hearing about something new. I feel people have become so obsessed with technology they are getting ahead of them selves. They think since we can turn our car on with our phone means we can do ANYTHING! The authors class seems as if it was created to be compatible with a world that does not exist or at least does not exist yet. The obsession with this technology can even make people pushed out of shape if they do not have what they want. The title of the article even says "..Its About Time" implying as if we are so far behind in the technological world we can not function correctly today. We are perfect where we are and possibly so advanced in technology it is making people believe we can do things we cant. What needs to happen is we need to use the technology at hand and not try to do what we think the technology should do.

-SOUTHPAW

Find artical here:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/google-apps-updatessomething-for-everyone-or-about-time/2898?tag=mantle_skin;content