Coming into this class I really didn't know what to except. I wasn't sure about the articles we would be reading and that made me nervous. After the first couple days, I came to see that the articles we were reading was about stuff that interested me. I am a college student, of course Facebook and texting are going to interest me. I really connected to the topics and that took a little bit of stress off of me. I am working a full time job this summer, so after driving in the car for about an hour and a half in traffic home from the city, I don't want to sit around for 5 hours typing on my computer. I am glad it wasn't what I expected because it makes it that much easier.
The article I enjoyed evolving from was the Reputation Management article. I really could connect to this article because personally I was cautious, but not extremely. My Facebook is blocked from people I am not friends with and I limit someone the people I am friends with. Reading this article really made myself think about what is really on my Facebook. I have always wondered how employers are finding ways to see potential employees Facebooks if they have it publicly blocked. But then I thought about how I find ways to get around peoples Facebook to look someone up. Facebook can be complicated at times. Sometimes it will randomly change my settings, or if I go thought my privacy settings, a few albums I have up won't be set to private. I am not a bad person and I try to keep my life personal even on Facebook. I go through my pictures every once in a while and think do I still want this up for everyone to see. Sometimes I'm like what was I thinking having this stuff up for everyone to see. I have worked in retail for the past 3 years. I am friends with everyone I work with, not the manager, but assistant managers. I never really thought that any of the stuff on my Facebook would get me in trouble, because first of all nothing was bad and secondly they know who I am and can see that I am a hard worker. Hearing everyone post about how they/people they know have not gotten jobs or lost jobs because someone saw something on Facebook was an eye opener.
The videos we watched on the first day really fascinated me, especially the How The Brain Works one. While watching this it gave me the idea to possibly use the medical community as the example for my research project. Some of the stuff in the video, such as your brain getting distracted and not seeing the background, was common sense. Other stuff such has machines that can change the way you think really blew my mind. Everything science can do today will go farther and farther as we go into the future. It is weird to think that when our parents were young, none of the technology or medical advancements had been created yet. Things were different back that and makes me wonder how my life would be different if we didn't have these technologies.
After this first week, I am excited for the rest of the course. Technology has always been something I am interested. I am constantly wanting the latest technology and learning how to use it. As these next weeks come and go, I am sure I will be more comfortable to interacting more with people on the discussion board. I have always been a shy person, even when it comes to just online conversations.
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