Tuesday, November 23, 2010

11/23 Free Writing

I really enjoyed watching the movie Julie and Julia because it helped me understand why people use blogs as much as they do and how much of an impact it can have one someones life. I think that it was really cool that Julie did her blog for a whole year on how her goals for getting all of the recipes done on time was going. On a different note, the link on the home blogspot page about people getting fired from their jobs because of things that they have posted on their blogs, I thought was interesting. I didn't know that so many people out there really do get in trouble with work because what is posted on their blog. I'm guessing it works the same way with other social websites like facebook or anything else. My opinion on people getting fired for have pictures on their blog or talking about their personal life is that if it doesn' t seem like it's going to bother someone, then why does it matter. For example from the link, the girl named Ellen that was a flight attendent for Delta who got fired from her job because she and some other co-workers had posted some pictures on the blog in their uniforms. It didn't say how the photos were inapproiate so in my point of view i'm guessing that the pictures really weren't that bad. I guess it's just another way that people need to be careful what they post on the internet!

Thursday, November 18, 2010

11/18 Social Media Free Writing

I found a lot of things interesting in this social media video. The biggest shocker to me was the statistic 1 in every 8 couples meets through a social network. It also never occurred to me how fast things like ipod applications, social networks like facebook and twitter and websites like wikipedia and hulu developed. I think that it would be weird for me to live in a world without facebook, wikipedia and search engines like google. Especially since google is practically a life saver when I'm struggling with homework. Another fact that I found extremely shocking is that if you were paid $1 for every time an article gets posted on wikipedia, you would make about $156 an hour. That's crazy to think about. I think that social networks are becoming so popular because it's an easy way to connect with people that you rarely get to see. Or in my case, I'm so busy with school and my job that if I can hop on facebook for even 15 minutes I can catch up with friends. The statistic that I found interesting is the one that compared the amount watched on Hulu to the amount recorded and then watched on TVO of DVR. I thought that the amount of people that would record and then watch later would have been a lot higher. But apparently Hulu is a lot more popular then I thought it was. I also found it intriguing that the statistic that people listen more to peers then to advertisements. This has a lot to do with social networking!!