Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Blog Free Writing 11/23

The movie Julie and Julia, was quite interesting. I never knew blogging could catch on so quickly, especially in Julie's case. I also never knew the movie was based upon a true story. How cool would it be the make a living off of doing something you dearly enjoy. We all would love that. One part in the movie that struck me was when Julie got the call that Julia Child's said she was not a fan of her blog and did not like it. Like Julie I would have been crushed too. Transitioning into another topic, getting fired for blogging. I had no idea that freedom of speech was not applicable to published writing like blogs. This definitely startled me, I know now that I must be very careful of whatever I put on this Internet because someday it could possibly be traced back to me. Also, I did figure writing a blog could be anonymous but yet you still must be careful because if you write about things that certain people could trace back to you, it could come back to bite you in the future. I think blogging as a career is a really cool idea, getting paid to write your view on certain topics would be something really interesting and I personally would find that cool. Blogging is something that in our world happens on a daily basis. Whether we think of facebook as a blog or not, we do post somewhat of our lives on their for everyone to read. People follow us as well. Blogging is a very popular form of social media in our world today. I wonder what the next form of blogging will be like, probably even more accessible than it is now. Will blogging stay popular or will something else rise and steal the spotlight?

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Social Media Free Writing

My opinion on the video is that it is very accurate. I found many things to be astonishing. I never knew that it took so long for the radio to reach so many viewers, I believe it was 38 years then facebook hit even more than that number in a short 9 months. Crazy how things can change so quickly over time. The Generation we are in today is so extremely sophisticated when it comes to technology. Since everything is more accesible over the internet we dont need printed copies as often. I could tell that newspaper companies were sturuggling because even in my neighborhood there are only a select bunch of people who still recieve it. Phone are capable of almost anything and the handheld convience is perfect for all. We are all about accesibility in this generation and we are changing the world so quickly it is hard to keep up. It was almost yeaterday we had 3G phones and now we're up to 4G. How fast will technology be in 50 years from now? Will cars improve on that note as well? Life before our very eyes is changing constantly. Facebook is even adding an email site in for added convience. I never knew facebook would be the 4th largest country if it was one. People take there social networking so seriously. How many people find themselves straying away from homework to check the daily facebook or twitter updates. Its a new fad our pretty much lifestyle. I also never knew that online students performed better than those in front of the teacher. If this is true why dont we segway into online learning if it is so sucessful. Everything in this world is so technologically based now a days. What will the future years bring to our world, and out children. Will we be like our parents and reminess about how much slower the past was? Will people become parinoid if they dont have the latest update since that is pretty much what we are judged on in this world. Technology and social networks are the new face of our world.