Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Blogging

I don't think that I will ever blog in the future because I dont know what I would ever talk about.  This might change but as of now I doubt I will ever blog when I am older.  The movie was actually very interesting because she used blogging as a way to express he feelings about her hobbie of cooking.  This was something that she did on her own time and in the end paid off.  She loved to write and blogging was a great way for her to practice.  All her writing in the end worked out for the better because she recieved calls from editors that wanted her.  I thought it was also very interesting when she knew no one was reading her blogs in the begining but she still continued.  I like how she was so persistant and determined to finish what she has started. 
Blogging as annoymous would be a good idea because 2% of people get fired from their jobs because of what is being said on their blogs.  I think people need to be careful of what they put on the interenet that everyone could see.  I don't think the people actually writing these blogs realized that their boss or coworkers would ever see it but it does happen. 

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Social Media Revolution

This video was very interesting.  Some of the information was very surprising but a lot of it I could have saw coming.  Our generation has changed the meaning of communication.  It was only 4 years ago that we had internet and I find that wierd.  It's wierd thinking that I didn't even have interent when I was younger.  One thing that I found very interesting was that if facebook was a country, it would be the third largest country.  I knew a lot of people used facebook but I definetly didn't think it was that big.  It was surprising also on how fast it go so big.  It only took nine months for it to be a huge successful hit.  I also thought it was very interesting when they asked Americans how many of them have watched a movie lately...on their phone and 25% said they had.  It wasn't that long ago that there were no phones.  I believe our generation has become very dependent on technology and lacking social interaction.  I am surprised how big Youtube has gotten as well.  Just like facebook, it only took youtube nine months to have 100,000,000 videos.  It really hit me when they said that we no longer have to look for services and searches, they know find us.  This to me is so true because I am constantly being asked, or pop-ups come up of relevant topics.  It makes it very easy to look up information.