Week 2: Proof of Learning

This week’s readings were all about online dating and how we use these communities to find a significant other. We discussed the differences between online communities and online dating communities. This week was interesting to me still. I always enjoying learning about something that will shock me, such as people sending basically strangers money.

We started off discussing how people have been victims in scams while using online dating communities. This article and video was the most interesting to me. It shocks me that people are that, I guess you can say desperate, to find love. I posted a comment about how, it is basically the victims fault for this to happen to. They are the ones that are giving strangers money to visit them. Couldn’t they just go visit them themselves? Another person in the video talked about how money was removed from her account. I and other people commented back that they were confused on how the guy got her bank account. I am curious as to know if she sent it to him. I was happy to see many people agreeing with me on the argument that the victim was partially or fully to blame.

The article on Soul Mates was another interesting article to me. I had never really thought about what the definition of Soul Mates is to me. The article describes it as "one of two persons compatible with each other in disposition, point of view, or sensitivity". This definition was a little confusing to me, and I felt many other people in the class felt the same way. Multiple people posted about how the way this article makes it seem is that a soul mate can be your best friend. Now, I can understand why people would think that, but to me soul mate would be the incorrect term for that type of relationship. I see your soul mate as being the only person for you. Someone that you have a romantic relationship with, you love, and want to spend your life with.

We are already half way done with class. I feel like I had a difficult time with my schedule this past week with being able to sit down and say what I wanted to. It was hard for me at the end of the week because typically I can only get on during the day or at night. Of course, Thursday was the one day I couldn't at night, and when we didn't get the article till late, I was in a bind. Also, this bad weather was not nice to my internet this weekend. But put all that aside, I feel like I truly am learning a lot in this class. I am learning how to overall be a better writer. I am learning to be able to present myself in a better way. With this class only being online, I feel like the first week I was struggling to fully explain myself so people would get my complete thought. This week I worked harder to make sure that when I reread it, I could understand it from an outsider that would have no idea what the topic was.