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.