Final Blog Post (Why Technology is Freaky)

    Technology is apart of our way of living and there's nothing we can do to change that. I can't imagine living my life without my phone now, I think I would get symptoms of withdrawal. I will walk around my town and see 7yr olds with the new iPhone. Mark Zuckerberg said that "Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected." The idea of technology had a very simple goal at first. To make life easier. This original perspective of technology is long gone, it has mutated. Now technology is a necessity to do anything in our society. We are now enslaved to the latest models of androids, or what if it's better to get the new Xbox or the new Playstation. Yet, I still love technology. I wish I knew what it was like to live without any technology. I'm an addict and I know it, but everyone is addicted to something. You just have to make sure you get addicted to something that will help increase your productivity. 

Week 15 Blog Post

 BLOG  Write a post about your online presence. Questions to ponder:

— How large an online footprint do you have? Do you have a personal website?
— Which social media sites do you use? What have you put on them? What have you linked to? 
— What information about you could a visitor glean about you, even indirectly, by visiting your pages on social media? 
— What private information have you voluntarily given out, such as your phone number and e-mail address? To what sites and why? 
— Consider the sorts of questions posed by The Atlantic article: Does social media make people lonely? Depressed? Isolated?

^MY PROFESSORS QUESTIONS^

    The fourth question caught my eye because I share my email address pretty willingly. I usually do this to get discounts on products. This is why I have multiple email addresses. I have one for school, one for job applications, and one that has everything else. The majority of my inbox for my third email is a cluster of discounts and spam. I wish there was a way to have a company erase your information if you felt so inclined. 

    The second question is also something I would like to address in this week's blog post. I have Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook accounts. I rarely use Facebook, the photos on my Facebook are from when I was 13yrs old I think. My Instagram account is what I keep the most updated in my opinion. This being said, I don't use it that much. Most of my Instagram is photos I've taken that I'm proud of, or a photo that represents a memory I've had with people in my life. 

Post #1: My News Sources

My Top 5 News Sources

1. The Hartford Current
2. The New York Times
3. The Weather Channel
4. CBS News
5. The New York Times

Blog Post Week 12

    Since I was around for this new product when it started becoming popular, I chose to view the iPod through the lends of diffusion theory. The first time I interacted with this product was Christmas in 2004. I got the iPod Shuffle, I was so excited to use this tiny little box and listen to music. As we know, iPods eventually developed into iPhones and this can be seen clearly with the diffusion theory. Apple as a company wasn't incredibly popular until they came out with smaller handheld devices. Effective forms of communication were in high demand at the beginning of the 21st century. Ipod was such an accessible and communicative device that it became a norm for society. Every other company started following Apple's footsteps and created this smartphone we know so well today. The downside of this technological evolution is the thousands of other features that aren't related to communicating. Using social media platforms takes up so much of your time and distracts you from your surroundings. 

 

Blog Post #7

 The person that talked about the invention of personal computers. The first thing I thought of was the movie Imitation Game. This is because the movie is based around the invention of the computer. Just a very big computer. It is cool realizing that computers became apart of society so quickly as a norm. It took a lot of time to get where we are today. When comparing an older computer that is the size of a room to a MacBook Air, the technological improvement is really shocking when you really think about it.

Blog Post #5

 There is a case study that triggers a debate around the justification of actions and what makes an action immoral. The case I'm talking about is called The Lifeboat Case. I will provide a video at the bottom of this post that explains this case study. How does someone make a morally good decision? The two perspectives of this argument I'm going to work with is one from John Locke and Jermy Bentham. Locke would say that the captain of this crew made the wrong decision to take the cabins boy's life out of necessity. He would say that he had no moral ground to take one of his natural rights away. Bentham would say they committed this act of cannibalism out of necessity making it morally good. This is because the captain's actions provided the greatest amount of good for the rest of the crew. This case is great for debating morals that seem to be justified but in the end,

it all depends on the individual's perspective. 

Blog Post #4

 The reason why these websites are hard to find is that we aren't supposed to find them. The government can censor what we see online if something is promoting a message that the US government doesn't appreciate. There can be many other reasons why information on the internet is censored. Such as someone telling a lie or spreading rumors that could have a major impact on our Country. It could also be because not many people are searching for a certain subject, so the links suggested after searching are unrelated to what you want to find. These two websites (The American Conservative + Antiwar) are hidden a little because of the message they are sending. They are against war, and the information they are providing could cause a problem for the US.