For me, personally, I couldn't "unplug" myself from my iPhone or iPad. I'm too attached to both of them and they are always around me no matter where I go. I know that whenever I go on vacation with my family, they are the first things on my list to pack, along with my iPod and Nintendo DS. However, whenever I am on vacation, I'm not on my phone or iPad as much as I usually am when I'm at home. When we travel to Florida, I'm too busy laying by the beach and going out and feeling the water to even think about Twitter or who could be texting me. I actually leave my phone up in the hotel room and I don't check it until later that day. I couldn't actually "unplug" myself for several days, just for a few hours.
After thinking back on everything we've discussed over the semester, the thing that stands out the most to me was about privacy over the Internet or just in general. It surprised me to think that anyone can find out where you are at anytime like on Twitter when you tweet, you can put your location and anyone can figure out where you are out. Even your own money isn't safe online, anyone can track it and basically steal from you. It's scary to think, that's why I'm not putting too much out there because I don't want people to know everything about me. It also surprised me how Apple was first created, in a garage, and to see how successful it is now. Almost everyone owns an Apple product.
Communication technology has a huge impact on my life and society in general. Everywhere you go you see someone talking on their phone or on their laptop or iPad's, we feel forced to be "connected". We feel like we have to know what is going on at all times. My mom tells me all the time how she hates Facebook because everyone has to put everything on it and be on it at all times. She doesn't understand because she didn't grow up using Facebook while I did so I don't see it as a big deal. I'll admit, it was better before AIM and MySpace started because the only way you would find out anything about anyone is when you communicated with them yourself. I think Facebook and Twitter will continue to grow, just like cell phones and iPad's, because everyone needs to be connected, whether we admit it or not. Communication technologies is what defines us and we will never be able to escape it.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Blog #9: COMM 303
After reading the article, I have realized that no matter what you put on the social network, whether it be blogging, Facebook, or Twitter, someone is going to read it and probably save it. I'm not a huge blogger, I never have been. The only reason why I have a blogger is because I have needed it for classes in the past. I used to blog when I was younger on a website called Xanga. It was kind of like blogging. You basically logged on and wrote an entry about your day and anything you wanted to. I would usually write on it everyday. Eventually, that faded away when Myspace came out.
I think blogging has an impact on society. I mean after reading the article, it shows that people can write whatever they want, even if it's not true. People like to find out about celebrity's lives mainly through Twitter and blogging and magazines. People always put false facts on the Internet so it's hard to believe what is true and what's not. It impacts society because people could read something and think it's true when it's not. That could cause problems with a lot of people.
I believe more people will keep blogging about whatever they want because no one is going to stop them and who's to say the person who wrote the blog was the one who made up the rumor. Maybe someone heard from someone else and then they decided to write about it since no one else knew about it. I don't think its necessarily a good thing that anyone can write anything they want because that can cause problems with people. No one wants to have false rumors about them being spread around so why would someone do that? It is clearly wrong and even in the article for Nikki Haley to be accused for tax fraud, caused problems with her and the press. It's not a good thing and more people should be more careful about what they blast on the social network.
I think blogging has an impact on society. I mean after reading the article, it shows that people can write whatever they want, even if it's not true. People like to find out about celebrity's lives mainly through Twitter and blogging and magazines. People always put false facts on the Internet so it's hard to believe what is true and what's not. It impacts society because people could read something and think it's true when it's not. That could cause problems with a lot of people.
I believe more people will keep blogging about whatever they want because no one is going to stop them and who's to say the person who wrote the blog was the one who made up the rumor. Maybe someone heard from someone else and then they decided to write about it since no one else knew about it. I don't think its necessarily a good thing that anyone can write anything they want because that can cause problems with people. No one wants to have false rumors about them being spread around so why would someone do that? It is clearly wrong and even in the article for Nikki Haley to be accused for tax fraud, caused problems with her and the press. It's not a good thing and more people should be more careful about what they blast on the social network.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Blog #8: COMM 303
After reading the articles, I've learned that not everything you do on the Internet is not private. I know how Facebook is where you can set your privacy settings as well as your iPhone. Does that really mean everything is set to private? Not necessarily. On Facebook right now, my cell phone number is put up for anyone to see and I have tried several times to delete it or set it to private. I received a text message the other day from someone and he said he found my number from Facebook. Because of this, I am very concerned. I don't like knowing that people can track down my number or know where I'm at at all time.
I have my Facebook set to private as of right now where only my friends can see any of my stuff but apparently everyone can see my cell phone number. I have learned not to put too much information about myself that I don't people knowing on Facebook or Twitter. I have learned that when you go in for a job interview, they can track any of the tweets you have put out, even the ones you have deleted. I don't want the reason for me not getting a job because I put something completely unnecessary on the Internet. It's not worth it for my future.
I think we should be concerned about these issues because it seems like there are many creepy people out there that would stalk people or try to kidnap them. There are even people who are trying to steal people's money through the Internet. This is a serious issue and isn't fair to those who think their things are safe. Not everyone is aware of the fact that nothing or nobody can be trusted. I don't like knowing people could be keeping an eye of everything I am doing when I don't ask for it. Privacy should be more available to everyone. If there were more privacy in the world, there would probably be less crime in the world as well.
I have my Facebook set to private as of right now where only my friends can see any of my stuff but apparently everyone can see my cell phone number. I have learned not to put too much information about myself that I don't people knowing on Facebook or Twitter. I have learned that when you go in for a job interview, they can track any of the tweets you have put out, even the ones you have deleted. I don't want the reason for me not getting a job because I put something completely unnecessary on the Internet. It's not worth it for my future.
I think we should be concerned about these issues because it seems like there are many creepy people out there that would stalk people or try to kidnap them. There are even people who are trying to steal people's money through the Internet. This is a serious issue and isn't fair to those who think their things are safe. Not everyone is aware of the fact that nothing or nobody can be trusted. I don't like knowing people could be keeping an eye of everything I am doing when I don't ask for it. Privacy should be more available to everyone. If there were more privacy in the world, there would probably be less crime in the world as well.
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