Class Wrap Up (Week 16)

My experience with the blog posts was interesting. It was a new way to help me memorize what we did in class as well as present my opinion on it. Usually, when I study it’s a strenuous task. I have to go over notes, read over power points and other methods that take hours. However, for this class I would just read over the blog posts and I would have a solid recap of the class. Even while I’m writing it, I feel like I’m taking in more information than usual. I liked the creative flexibility we had in the blog. I’m a big fan of customization; I like to put my special mark on everything that I own so it’s different from everyone else’s. I like the edits that I made to the blog and it gives me a sense of belonging. Other times that I had to do a class blog I wasn’t this attached to it because I had no flexibility. 

The class itself was different than I thought it would be but in a good way. I thought this was going to be a class about more about “media law” like the 1^stamendment and copyright (which it was at first) but it transitioned into conspiracies about the internet/ government and that was fun. Even though your spiels about how “google is watching me” and how “I walked into the classroom already signed into google” were a little repetitive, they were fun and I was happy to see a different side of things. Your thoughts on google and the government gave me a little paranoia myself for a while and I’m happy how I’m educated on the subject. Though one part of me wishes that we had a test on the conspiracy portion of the class, It was fun to learn about it regardless.

Privacy on Internet (Week 14)

Privacy on the internet has been a problem since the early 2000's. Once cameras were added on laptops, computers and smartphones, people accused the government of watching them through the camera lens and up to this day I still see people with their cameras taped. I never understood this type of paranoia people have with the government watching you. I'm not saying that they aren't, they definitely are watching you but why do you care? In this digital age, they can watch you through alot more than your cameras. As long as you're on a public wifi they can probably watch what you're doing on the computer itself and they definitely know your location. At this point, why even try to hide yourself?  If you're not doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about I understand that it's the general idea that you're always being watched and that can be unsettling but as long as you aren't trying to plan a terrorist attack, they won't really bother you (based on the conspiracy theories). But following my philosophy, my views have changed over the years. I used to have all of my social media private but I don't care anymore. All of the things that I post and comment on are NC-17 so I'm  not worried about my boss being anything that I wouldn't show my grandma. The only social media outlet that I actually keep private is my snapchat because it's mainly for my friends/ people I meet. I don't let strangers follow me on that platform. The trick to keeping things private things "private" on the internet is my not sharing them with anyone and keeping your personal ideas/ memories in your head where they belong.

Newer Innovations- Twitter (Week 11)

Before I begin talking about twitter, I was doing research on newer innovation and I found out that myspace has transitioned away from being a conventional social media site. Nowadays, they serve to be more of a news site than anything else. I just found it interesting that since they were completely overtaken by Facebook and twitter, they ventured on a new path. Sadly their popularity hasn't grown much since 2005. Twitter began in 2006 and it was one of the first social media platforms to promote what they did in such a simple way. People were drawn to the idea of simply posting your thoughts in a public sphere but twitter was one of sites that created the digital sphere. A digital sphere is the same as the public sphere but it's a platform where everyone has an equal opportunity to spread their opinions and thought to the general public. Positives of this are people going viral and achieving fame through social media profiles while negatives include people saying the wrong thing on these platforms and ruining their career. There have been people posting racist comments or been caught being racist on camera that have lost their jobs. Your online profile is a blessing and a curse and it'll be with you for the rest of your life in this digital age.