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Technology is used in everyday life now from a cellphone to a computer to a television. It is a big part of our lifes but has it taken over. What happened to the good al days where you were able to use a piece of paper and a pen to write a paper. They lady in this video Dana boyd believe that technology is the devil because they think the schools are loosing there touch on how they teach students. Also you loose a personal contact with people its now easier to write someone an email then talk to them in person or texting them rather then calling them on the phone. She believes that websites are turning into something you only socialize with people with. I get on facebook constantly to see how my friends are doing rather then doing what I am suppose to be doing. People also use them for dating purposes and what happened to going out and meeting people. I feel like sometimes its hard to have a conversation with someone because it is like they forgot how to have one with some body. She gives many examples to prove her points from facebook and myspace to search engines like wipapedia and google. I do not think technology is all bad it does make it easy for you to learn things. You can pretty much type anything into google and you can get the information you need. I do believe that technology is very benefical for educational purposes. Microsoft word tries to help you out with your gammer and spelling and you cant get that from using pen and paper. If you do not use technology you will basically be behind in life. I think technology has its good and bad points like all things and she really illastraes that in the video. It makes you kinda want to debate the pros and cons of technology and is it really worth everything it is made out to be.

class assignment

We are suppose to talk about an assignment we did in class but we never did it. I am just going to talk about what we did in class today. We had to bring in the guidelines for our next essay that is due. We had to take turns reading it and then Mrs. Crawford went into further detail about what we needed to do. The guidelines have basically been the same from our other essays except the topic of course. I noticed that we all had a similar question about the mla format. We are supposed to be reviewing that in class sometime this week. I have already learned that in the writing center from our previous essay because I had no idea what that was. She drew on the board the lay out of our essay and gave us an example of what she expects from us. We all needed to get an appointment to the writing center. She told us we just needed to compare or contrast not both. We need to make sure not to use the word you and keep it in the same tense. Be sure to have strong thesis sentence. Weneed to have six strong paragraphs but we can have five.

what we learned about facebook and myspace

Today in class we went to the computer classroom to make our myspace and facebook pages if we did not already have them. We visited both of those sites to either make the pages or to add people in our class. We explored each website so we could get familiar with each site. We needed to find what was similar and what was different about each of the sites where. I am very comfortable with facebook. I have had my facebook for years now. When I first started using it however I did not like it at all. I had no idea what or how to use it. I just had to play around on it for a little and I finally got the hang of it. I had a myspace for the longest time though I got one when I was a freshman in high school. Once I discovered facebook I deleted my myspace and only had facebook. So when I made my page the other day I completely forgot how to use it. I noticed that they tried to make it like facebook. They have the chat at the bottom and the status to know what you are doing. The profiles are a little different you can make your page all pretty on myspace and can add music on yours. Myspace also has top friends which I believe causes a lot of drama people get really mad if your not on there top. Which it really doesn’t matter those are the people who have to have drama in there life to feel complete. I also believe that facebook is more for collage people and older. Myspace is still really used by the high school kids and lower. I mean I understand the older people have myspaces but that is just my opinion. This class helped me understand the feel for myspace again. I mainly was on myspace throughout to get familiar with it again. I only used facebook so I could add people from the class. I really did not like how myspace has changed so much it made me difficult to learn. I did not like how they tried to copy facebook because I thought it would be easier to learn and it was not. I am going to delete my myspace after we finish this essay cause I will never use it. I just like facebook a lot better!

Eating articles

Today’s articles where about health and fitness and being over weight. They say that is ok for some one in Brazil is ok for them to be over weight they find them pretty. If some one in America was largely over weight they would be judged and would be told horrible things. It really amazes me how different societies work. They say that must off the world is considered over weight. You do not have to be obesise to be considered over weight. You basically have to be a twig with no muscle to be considered. If you don not were a zero or a double zero then what are you besides over weight. Being called over weight causes people to go crazy even though they look really good. This were eating disorders come into play. People to get very sick or just stops eating and then end up in the hospital for dehydration or many other problems. This is also when plastic surgery comes into affect. People get things sucked put of there body so they could look a lot skinner. They get it put some where else they get there wrinkles or to make something else a little larger. Plastic are very dangerous and come with high risk and can even cause the patient to die. I realize the patient knows what they are getting in to. But do you really think they would be doing this if they were not told they were over weight. Some people take it really personally and I believe this is the reason they get into plastic surgery. Some people just let it go and do not care what other people think which is good. Most of the people you see getting plastic surgery are the ones are the people that really don’t need it. They are the people that just don’t think they are pretty enough. I think people really just need to eat better and exercise. There really no health risk in that. People also need to stop listening to what ever body else thinks and just live your own life. You are only you once and why waste it worrying by how you look all the time. You should be loved for who you are and not the person you are trying to be. If someone is trying to change who you are the really don’t care about you at all. You really do not need that in your life.

facebook

I do agree that facebook really does impact your grades. You get on to type a paper or do a research assignment and you end up getting on facebook instead. You could be on there for hours to playing games talking to friends or even just uploading pictures. It is away to get away from you are doing but still being on the computer. Most people get hung up on games and they can’t stop playing. You are always receiving new request to play a new game that come out one facebook. I also so people get really involved in the quizzes. You cant just take one you have to take at least five or more its better then writing your paper. When your one facebook you loose all track of time. You think to yourself I am just going to get on and check my messages and then get right back of. Well ten minutes actually turns into an hour and you wonder to yourself where the time went. I think facebook also carries a lot of baggage. I believe that people believe everything that is put on facebook. If someone starts a rumor or something well people believe it because it was posted on facebook. I think some of the pictures are really over rated and really get mis understood and a lot of people get hurt for them. All I have to say what you do not want people to see don’t put it up or just don’t even be in the picture at all. If you want to keep your life private don’t have a facebook. Things are always going to happen on it no matter how hard you try to keep it private. I also understand that your young and you like to party and have a good time. When you are doing that you don’t think anything of it either. When the pictures go up you think you are all cool and stuff like that. You don’t realize that you are getting judge by these pictures daily. Its going to be harder for you to get a job if you have crazy pictures of yourself every where. You also have to be rally careful of what you say and post on yours and other peoples facebook. Also collages look and how crazy you are to see what kind of people they are bringing into school.