Catfish!

Honest mistake or just flat Dumb??

       So in all honestly i have very few words to describe the movie Catfish. It was extremely interesting but also very out of this world. It made me think a whole lot about what was being filmed and what was being said. One of the main things that really got me thinking was the question "Is this real or is it all fake?" I really thought the movie was real throughout the first couple of minutes. I then really began to wonder when Nev was wearing and doing the same thing in two different parts of the movie. The first time this was shown was before we ever even knew if he was going to do the movie or even see if he was going to carry on a relationship with the family. The second time he was on the phone with "Megan" or so he thought that he was. Does this show that he is really lonely and looking for someone to talk to or is it a mistake that any one of us could have made? This question brings out many different sides to the story. The paintings were so pretty and looked amazing so was he really thinking in his head that an eight year old painted these? I feel as if that is a very unrealistic thing at such a young age. Also i think it is very odd that every single time he wanted to talk to Abby she was not able to come to the phone. I feel like there were soo sooo soo many signs saying that this isn’t true but he never picked up on them. All the work that went in to this big lie was incredible. I believe their really has to be something wrong with Angela. I understand that there is a lot going on at her house and that she obviously is very lonely but taking it this far is crazy! I think it could even be considered identity theft for her to go to the extent of everything that she has. Yes, their pictures where put online and we all put pictures online but stealing them and making them your own is not normal. She also continued to lie about knowing them straight to Nevs face. You would think after all the lying she has done and all the pain she has put him through that she would just stop and be honest. I don’t understand why this happened but both sides of the story are pretty weird! If you really think about it both of them could have really gotten themselves in danger and Angela really needs help. One question that i have been really wondering about is if she ever got help? Did someone see the movie and decide to help her?
       

Could My______ Be Harmeful??

       Myspace can take a life!

        This past week i spent some time going through and reading what all people had to say about myspace. Their were some interesting comments made as well as many diffrent sites that talked as myspace being used to bully kids. I was very interested in the story about the 13 year old girl so i got lucky that it was the first thing that popped up on google. Megan Meier was the young girl that took her life in this case. A man made a fake account and talked to her pretending that he was only 16 and told her really mean stuff like "the world would be a better place without her." Who would have ever known that something like myspace could lead to something that terrible. The man that was accused of this told the judge and jury that he is not guilty of this crime. I guess he is dumb and has not read the article that we had to read! It is so much easier for inverstigators to go in and find out all that happened behind the words or pictures on the screen. When i was younger i had a myspace and i can still remember all those creeper people that would try to add me as a friend and i always excepted them and looking back i have no clue why the heck i ever did that. I am very lucky that i never had to encounter a mean man such as the one that made this poor little girl take her life. Little words can make a diffrence in a life.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356056,00.html (Story about young girl)

Tracking the bad guys

        The article that we were REQUIRED! to read was a very interesting article. I find myself dreading the face that i have to read or watch videos for this class but a couple minutes in to them i am all about them. I had no clue of all the things the police could do through social networking sites. You would think that many of the people who where posting the things they do would think about the fact that others could see the things they were posting. So as much as these sites have been leading to bad things in the world they have also been leading to many other things that are good for the world and for the people in it. So many people think its way cool to post a picture of them with a gun but what if somebody they knew was killed with the same gun they had in their hand? Even if they werent the ones to shoot that person the police would go to them as one of the first suspects. Getting online and checking out the social networking sites can either be a good thing or a bad thing and lately they have all been good. They have helped save lives and put all the bad people behind bars.

Who are you on Myspace?

    Myspace makes it where you can change who you are or be the real you. Many people change their looks and age. This can cause many people problems but they do not care and do it anyways. It also is where many people put their music and try to become something big. But with so many people trying to be famous who will ever really make it? should they try Youtube?

      

Snow Day

        So last week it snowed and it was sooo soo pretty! so i decided that i would go out with some of my friends and take some picture! i love to take pictures and recently just got a new camera that i have no clue how to work so it was fun to get to go and test it out around town.

         We had so much fun playing in the snow and taking pictures! it was super cold and i had tennis shoes on so the snow like melted through the mesh and that was just bad news! man i dont think i could feel my toes for hours after we went out there! it was crazy cold!!!!!!! while we were out by the bridge a train came and it was just the engine and i have never seen that so it was pretty funny because we expected a actual long train and all we got was a short little weanie one! haha 

What used to be CoOL!

BBC'S Virtual Revolution

         

              When i started to watch these videos i was not looking forward to them at all. I thought that they would be long boring and stupid but i watched them anyways(I mean Krotoski did spend ten entire years working on them). While watching them I learned many different interesting facts. I believe that some people such as Chris Anderson take posting stuff on the web to the extreme. He thinks that you shouldn't post a picture ever. But the reality is if you are safe with the picture and don't do dumb things like talk to people you don't know you should be fine. Also, if you don't put scandalous pictures online your pictures will not be traded by other people. It is hard for many kids to know what is wrong to do on the web because they are so young so if parents are really worried about their kids not having an imagination or even for there safety they could easily just either 1. get them fun educational games 2. put a block on all sites that you don't want them to go too on a daily basis 3. not let them get on the computer at all. Yes, i think that too much computer usage can affect a child's imagination and social skills but if a parents is being a good parent then they wont let there kid spend that much time on them. I was shocked to see that South Korea was the most wired country out there. So they really do deserve to be called homoenterneticus but i dont know about the rest of us. When the teacher was talking about how kids wont have friends if they didn't play that certain game or do what the other kids were doing broke my heart. That should not be the case at all and those parents need to make their kids go play outside. Its good for them and will help them not be anti-social. Choosing to allow their kids to spend hours upon end on the computer can effect the relationships they have and cause them not to form more. The videos made a great point when they said that we do not spend enough time with each other because we are constantly picking up our phones to do other things. Even silly things such as play little games that take no skill or time. Did Tim Berns-Lee create an awesome thing when he created the web? Yes, but we need to be responsible with it.

My______

                Myspace is a social networking site that was created in August of 2003. The site was created so that it could use the same cool features that Friendster had but become even better than the already popular site. The first users on myspace where all people who worked within eUniverse. When creating their myspace they had a competition to see who could get the most friends in a certain amount of time. The workers used all the resources that they had to attempt to get many users to use this site. Since they already had a huge database of emails they used the 20 million emails they had to send out a mass email about becoming a part of myspace. This email caused myspace to spread like wild fire. When the age limit for Facebook was set so that only high school students and above i decided to get a myspace. In all honesty i have no earthly clue why i decided to get one and it was really super lame now that i think about it. I was always searching for new ways to get a cool background or cool glitter font on the front of my page. It was soo overrated and just like facebook now it consumed my life!!! like i didn't go a day without getting on it atleast 4 times. I feel so dumb now that i think about how i was addicted to it but i guess that is part of life. Now i feel as if the only people that are still on myspace are small town people or even small bands. In late 2010 Myspace decided that they were no longer going to compete with Facebook that they were going to become more centered around music. I think this was a awesome idea and possibly one of the only ways they would make it on the web.

What is YouTube?

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What is YouTube?

       Wikipedia Says that "YouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos." But the real question is what is not youtube? As goofy as that sounds it is so true. No matter what you are searching for you can find it on Youtube. In the video above it discuss how it all started with a video at the zoo, it no longer is just simple videos such as the first one. There is everything from dancing,singing, talking, and even news reports. It has become global and is growing every single day."Youtube was growing by 75 percent each week" The Youtube Reader

Daily Impact

        Everybody has those awful days where everything just goes completely wrong and nothing turns out the way they want it too. I have these days every once in awhile and i always turn tou YouTube to cheer me up. You can always find a funny video that will make you smile no matter what. I have always loved to watch Americas Funniest Home Videos and pretty much every single episode is loaded on too YouTube. Not only does this website cheer people up but is also used in classrooms around the world. Teachers use this site to show videos of the news, weather, and other topics they might be discussing in the classroom. I personally have experience many classes that use YouTube for their presentation. One of my professors liked to use the Bed Intruder video for many diffrent things such as black face.

Establishing Identity

         As well all know Justin Bieber started his identity on YouTube. It all started out as him just singing for the fun of it and a company found his video. He is a very talented singer but im sure the face that he is very good looking and has the cutest smile helps out alot. Not all people establish a good name for themselves but many people try too. On YouTube their are videos of people who can not sing at all but still have thousands of hits because people enjoy making fun of them or having a good laugh for the day. We all know that we are all guilty of this, but in reality they do it to themselves. YouTube has influnced many peoples future and made many people millions of dollars because of them either being really talented or being really dumb and acting a fool.

The Future

        

         There are many things that could happen in the future. The fact of the matter is the entire future is in our hands. We are the ones that will decide if the next up and coming star will come from YouTube. We can either send tons of links to one funny video or we can let the millions and millions of videos that are on YouTube go unwatched. The generation that is living now will be the generation that chooses if many other websites will go out of buisness and stop uploading videos to their site. What will happen when it comes to this, an the website becomes completely overloaded and will start to make you pay for the videos to be uploaded. Will this cause audiences to stop watching? Or is it so addiction that millions of people would pay money for it? Its up to us to decide.

Video Memorials

          Video Memorials are something that i do not understand at all. I feel as if they are weird and not suppose to be uploaded to the web. I can understnad if the memorial video is for a famous person or someone who is a very significant person in our world, but not if it is just your best friend. Im sure the only person or people that are even watching the one about someone who is not known are all friends of that person. Therefore i think those should just be uploaded to a facebook, or myspace page. Yes, these videos are very important to there loved ones and friends but is it really necessary for the entire world to be able to see them?