Second Life
My username for secondlife is dpierzc. It is not anything special. It is just the first letter of my first name then half my last name. It’s my bgsu email so I decided to keep it uniform. I chose the girl avatar becasue it was the only thing that resembles me in any way. I visited the beach and a night club in class. I also tried changing clothes but I failed. I changed her facial feautures and body though. I have no idea how to post pictures or whatever we’re supposed to do. Secondlife was really annoying. It was slow. It made my computer really hot which freaked me out. And it sent me annoying emails. I am going to uninstall it since it is giving my computer problems. I am not a fan of Secondlife.
Filed under BGSU 1000: Digitally Mediated Social Cultures | Comment (0)Sources relating to Facebook privacy
I found two articles relating to our topic of privacy on Facebook.
1.) http://con.sagepub.com/content/14/1/13.full.pdf+html
The first one I printed out and highlighted important things, while the second is 76 pages so I decided against killing a million trees by printing it out. Hopefully they are useful to us.
Filed under BGSU 1000: Digitally Mediated Social Cultures | Comment (1)Privacy
In class we discussed the issue of privacy, or lack there of on the Internet. I had no idea about there not being a delete button on gmail when it started, I found that to be very interesting. I don’t like the fact that people can look through your emails, that’s not right. And when it comes to Facebook, I feel like there is barely privacy on there. There are some settings to make your profile a little more private, but when the company and everyone else knows where you’re from, what school you went to, etc., it’s a little freaky.
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On Thursday in class, we had a speaker come in named Debbie. We first went on the Internet and looked up the Dominican Republic and wrote down how it looked from the Internet, the kinds of people living there, and the culture. The places showed on the Internet were beautiful beaches with clear water and many fun water sports to take part in; the epitamy of a touristy location. We then watched a documentary of her experiences in the Dominican at a little school. It was eye opening. The school was run down, the kids went hungry, and there were not enough supplies for the school to function, not to mention the inconsistency of the electricity. Debbie interviewed the worst behaved children of the class. They were asked what is important in their culture, if they could change anything what would it be, etc.
The children and the documentary really made me apprectiate what I have here in America. Not saying I take things for granted, but I just don’t value things as much as people would who don’t have stuff like we do everyday, like electricity. The children talked about how they share everything with one another, not even giving it another chance. They talk about how they value education and have such big dreams for themselves.
Immediately after class, I called my parents and thanked them for everything they have done for me. For raising me the way they did, for giving me things, and making me work for others. I told them I appreciated everything and that I was sorry it took me so long to realize this.
Thanks to Debbie’s documentary, I realized not only how lucky I am. But also how the Internet shows different things for the real world. The Internet beautified the Dominican making everything seem beachy and perfect. When in reality, that’s not true. Media confu
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