My Defining Moment
While searching the internet I came across an article that I found very interesting. It was about the popular magazine, Cosmopolitan, and how they have 100,000 paid digital subscriptions. These subscriptions are available to view on smart phones, iPads, Nooks, and Kindles. It is convenient for…
My respond:
To think that everything is going or are digital now a days is not that surprising. Digital subscription is an amazing idea because it saves paper, which means save trees, which means it is good for the Earth. At the same time it shows that people are getting lazier because everybody wants it instantly and hand held devices are convenient so they can access it where ever they are. I am a traditional person that still like the print version of magazines so I appreciate print versions because they are original and it benefits you if you are a collector. Either way companies are still profiting due to the subscribers and the followers so print or digital there will always going to be consumers for these companies. It just depends on what the consumers prefer as an individual that makes a difference.
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After Reading this article it got me to think that social media websites have changed young kids these days. High school is an important process for any teens; they think that it is the most important four years of their lives because there are so much that could happen in those four years. High school is a place that creates status in a hierarchy like ladder. You will know where you fit in after your freshman year and after that you go along with the ride. There are many different class statuses in high school and in order to fit in certain class you will mostly do whatever it takes to fit in to that class. Girls especially tend to create those classes and prone to label other high school students as well.
High school girls are all about the popularity and being the top of the food chain and this article is another piece of evident that shows that high school girls are all about the popularity. Being popular is a very important thing to some high school girls because it shows that they are important in that community and people like them or people known of them. Everyone enjoys being popular and being popular lets you enjoy high school better but it also puts you in the spot light and if you did something wrong then almost everyone at school will know and your reputation then is ruin. High school girls are just like lions fighting for their meals, they all fight for that spot light and because popularity is so important they will do anything for it.
In the article, the author quoted some of the girl’s statements and I feel that it was ridiculous on how far these girls would go to attract guys and for a good “facebook picture”. These girls are only thirteen to fourteen years old which are barely freshman’s in high school. With this being said what are these girls doing with their lives to make them think that they have to go through all that to look good. With technologies these days young girls are just wild out with facebook pictures and obsessed with looking good at all time to get attention while they should be focusing in actual school and it is sad to see that they do not care for anything except being popular and to look good.
In my opinion there are more to life than being popular and that high school is just a rough patch on the road that you have to go through. It is very hard to be a normal teen these days with all the technologies that we have in our hands. I was at that age once and I know how it feels to be concerned about popularity and looks but it is all temporarily and life does go on after high school. I hope that with technologies increasing young kids do not loose themselves to society and for them to not change themselves for others.
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So as i have learned throughout my MCO 435 Social Media class is that our social media sites are not as private as we think they are. You may have gone through every single privacy setting on Facebook to make sure it is as private as you can make it but that still doesn’t mean everything you post…
My Respond:
Interesting article, I think that since everyone is on social websites so much nowadays online hackers are able to hack in and steal personal information easier. So if you are on Facebook constantly (which is everyone) then keep your personal information to a minimum. Just your name and birthday is enough and sometimes having a birthday on there is a bit too much as well. Hackers are always on the move for personal information and if you are paranoid about getting hacked than change your password everyone now and then to be safe. You do not want another ASU incident to happen again so always try to keep yourself safe on the online world.
This brief article I found was interesting considering that Google+ is growing, well that is what I thought until I read this. I do not know much about Google+ besides that they are trying to go a different way from Facebook and other social media website (which is good). Originality is what makes an idea successful but in this case I am not so sure. Perhaps people are too comfortable with Facebook that they are not willing to try something new. Or is it that they want to stay away from other social media website and only concentrate on one like Facebook.
For me personality having one account like Facebook is more than enough for me. I am a person that enjoys spending time doing other things rather than staring at a computer screen clicking the “new stories” tab every 5 minutes to see new posts. I feel that everyone set aside extra hours every day for Facebook no matter where they are. Facebook became so popular because people pay attention to it so much. So if more people start paying attention to Google + then it will be as big as Facebook, but it is still an early process so only time will tell. I having a feeling that Facebook will eventually die out like Myspace did and there will be a new trend.
Other reasons why I think Facebook is so popular is the simplistic of the concept. The layout is also clean and easy for anyone to navigate and communicate with their friends. Not like Myspace where it is all about showing off each other’s pages and the competition of “top 12” or top however big you wanted. The top friends list created a lot of problem and jealous as I remembered but people still do it. Myspace eventually died out and people moved on to Facebook so does that mean Facebook will soon solidified as well? Or will Facebook grow so big and expand so wide that it will be the dominant social site that nothing else can compete? Only time can tell.
I cannot give any opinion on Google + because I have not use website personally but I can say that there are possablity that it will grow bigger or equal to Facebook. I want to you guys to read this article and give your own opinion on what you think of where Google + or Facebook will go. Sooner or Later someone from some place will come up with another idea about a social website and perhaps that one will become big but as for now I think I will stick with Facebook only and try not to jump on the band wagon with any other social sites.
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Have you seen the movie “Idiocracy”? Well if you haven’t, the film is a satirical science fiction comedy about the future of humankind. Basically, Luke Wilson is frozen and then awakens in the future to discover humans are extremely dumb. So dumb in fact, they believe crops need sports drinks to…
My respond:
I feel that the internet has made us a little dumber through out the years. I remember during my high school years it was cool to text in text language such as “LOL”, “OMG”, “U”, and such but as I got into college I realized that writing in text language became a habit and it was terrible so I stop. It don’t mean that I don’t do it anymore but I try to write out complete sentences will full words instead of abbreviations. In this technology world it is easy to loose your formal language to online language. No matter how easy it is to write in text language you always have to remember the “real” language and know when to use it like in the “real” world.
I found this article called “Is Social Media Ruining Students?“ to be of particular interest because it deals with students’ usage of social media. What better medium to explore this idea than with a Social Media class. The author of this article evaluates the pros and cons of social media…
My Respond:
-I feel that social media has effected so many people and especially college students as myself. I think that college students should concentrate on their school, work, and other activities more than being on a social media website like Facebook. Facebook is such a time consumer and college students need as much time in the day to concentrate on more important things rather then Facebook. Remember Facebook do not get you A’s in your classes, it only makes you loose sleep (you all know what I am talking about).
