Facebookistan

I personally think that Facebook is a very good tool when it comes to social networking. I think this because companies can use it to market themselves; also another big thing about it is that people can definitely reconnect with those who they have lost contact with. This is a powerful tool when talking about bringing people back together. But to every good thing there are a bunch of negatives that come with it as well. Like Facebook makes it easier for cyber bullies, also stalkers and even pedophiles to find young teenagers on Facebook. So it’s obvious that it has its problems as well. Some other things that I personally don’t like about Facebook and I’ve heard others talk about not liking as well is that they send information to advertisers because that makes them harass you to buy their products or subscribe to their companies. Also Facebook is said to increase chances of people developing different diseases. But that also deals with the amount of time spent in front of the computer screen. The segment with the rapist is very interesting to me because if you think about it anybody (rapist) can make an account and send you a friend request. And if they want to get you information to find you they certainly can get that off of Facebook. My final thoughts are that I hope that Facebook becomes more secure and safe for all its users, this will prevent people from being victims to cyber criminals/ bullies. This relates to the segment about the girl who was tracked on Facebook by the rapist. This is relates to how I think Facebook is not entirely secure and safe.

Blog Post 11

To me the library ethnography was a very useful assignment, I really never knew how to find books in our library until I did this assignment so it was a great assignment in my opinion, and what made it even better is I actually enjoyed doing it! It taught me how to look up and find books I want or need on the library catalog. You should definitely keep this assignment in your course next semester; I do not think there is a need to come up with something else. A topic that I wish we would have spent a little more time on was filter bubbles. We spent a good amount of time on it, but it was just very interesting to me because I have never heard of them. This topic intrigued me I didn’t know that sites can make your search results more direct for you based on where you are located and what you have searched most recently. Another topic that I would have loved to spend more time on was Common Rhetorical Devices; I think this topic is very interesting because a lot of companies use these devices when marketing their products. Thinking back I honestly don’t think there is anything that I can think of that we haven’t talked about in this class. I will be using the material we have covered in this class in classes like English 1102 when I take it in the spring. I have not used the researching skills that I have learned in my first two previous semesters here at UWG. I expect to apply these skills in other classes when I need to look up credible sources so I can have valid information in my work.