Social Networking Sites Definition Reading

The age of communicating face to face is vastly approaching to becoming extinct.  In today’s society many people use SNS in order to interact with people on a day to day basis.  The days of talking on the telephone, leaving voice mails, even communicating with the next door neighbor has ceased.  With the growth of new technology daily, the old friend in high school can still be your best friend on a social networking site  Social networking sites are interactive online communities set for people to voice opinions, share their photos and communicate without being right next to the person
 I began using SNS when I was in 7th grade, back then I didn't know the technical term was until myspace and that was 3-4 years down the road. 
 SNS have made it easier to interact with people than before.  Sad to say instead of calling someone or getting their attention via the phone, they are more easily available if you are to tweet or write on their facebook wall. :/

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Where I got my information to do this blog on SNS's.


This video below shows how social networks are designed and work.

TwitterWagon

In the past year the word Twitter has become a part of the world's language! Nowadays almost everyones on it, classmates, teachers, and celebs all post their opinions, moods and funny stuff they feel they're followers wouldn't mind RETWEETING! IT'S A GREAT toll to share something to the masses and also to gain public attention about a topic. 
Twitter is a VEry MOBILE and instant tool to the technologically savvy person who can snap as picture and share it to the world.  Twitpic.com and plixi.com are great sites used by twitter so you can easily upload photos form your mobile device. 
Twitter is most famous for the #TT. #TT stands for Trending Topic. Trending topic can range from a natural disaster, death of a celebrity or something that everyone is talking about. 


I'm not going to lie... i jumped on to the twitter bandwagon earlier this year and I've loved the social networking site.  I'm sure in the years to come many others will conform and do the same...



Great song about joining the TWITTER BANDWAGON!!!

Scholar YOU should know

Neil Postman considered himself a humanist, which means that he believes new technology can never substitute for human values.  Postman had a best known book titled, Amusing Ourselves to Death.  this bok was published in 1985 and discusses a historical narrative which deplores the decline of the communication medium as television images have replaced the written word. 

Quote by Neil Postman:
A new technology tends to favor some groups of people and harms other groups. School teachers, for example, will, in the long run, probably be made obsolete by television, as blacksmiths were made obsolete by the automobile, as balladeers were made obsolete by the printing press. Technological change, in other words, always results in winners and losers.

I used this quote because I feel that some of theses changes have been made and with new technology the old and original things are slowly dwindling.

Short Bio on Neil Postman and his contributions from Neil Postman's Website:
Neil Postman (1931 — 2003) was an American critic and educator. Postman received his B.S. from the State University of New York at Fredonia and his M.A. and Ed.D. from Columbia University. He was the Paulette Goddard Chair of Media Ecology at New York University and chair of the Department of Culture and Communication. His pedagogical and scholarly interests included media and education, as can be seen in many of his seventeen books, including Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), Conscientious Objections (1988), Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (1992), and End of Education (1995). Postman died in 2003 of lung cancer.http://www.neilpostman.org/

My Second Life Experience

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       On Friday October 15, 2010 my New Media Technology class we experienced our first field trip. We actually stepped into a virtual world where we could interact with hundreds of other people around the world.  The location where we were able to experience this "Second Life", was in ODU's Career Management Center. In the Center we met up with an instructor that was our guide in this new technology. 

       First steps in making a Second Life account is creating your avatar.  Just like many virtual words you are able to design and make the person look just like you.  For the sake of time, we used pre made avatars to work on.  In there we met with a lady that told us about how her company runs events and also virtually do a meditating exercise together. 

      Second Life is a great toll for people who are in any career in their lives.  Especially for business that are international. It helps save travel fees and allows you to interact and be with the person.  Also, the CMC instructor stated that you are also able to view live concerts from second life which I found to be cool and convenient. I'm sure there is a small fee, but this makes for someone who physically may be unable to attend to still enjoy the experience. 

      I plan to use Second Life later in my career and any future endeavors I may have.