Check your email!! Digital Quiz #12 has been administered. It is worth 50 points! If you have not received it by tomorrow, send me an email. This is your responsibility.
Presenters for next week...
Tuesday, December 3rd
Sound Design with Caden Gunn
Next week we will discuss putting together a portfolio and building a professional network. On Thursday, guest lecturer Chip Wood will speak to the class on the importance of networking and how to build your professional network. I suggest you all attend.
For participation points for the week...
Explain one way in which the use of social media has personally changed your life. Has it been for the better, or for the worse? Use the comments below to post a reply.
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ReplyDeleteI have met many friends online via "virtual game-worlds". Some of which I have know for many years. There was one friend who I met in a certain game, and then we started talking over Skype and Teamspeak. After talking for nearly four years we one day decided to meet up in real life. I had found out that he lived less than an hour away from my dad, so one time I went to visit my dad and borrowed his truck to drive to my friends house. He was exactly who he said he was, and we had an enjoyable time. I went over two more times before high school ended, then I was never able to hang out with him again because of the fact that my college was pretty far away. But he is one of the best friends I have ever made, so social media can be pretty awesome.
Social media has changed my life a bit. I started getting into it when a dear friend of mine, who I've known for as long as I can remember e-mailed me to get create a Facebook account. We used to just e-mail each other every month to every few years. I never used the internet for anything else. I just played video games and watched television with my family. But this was the first time I've ever heard of Facebook. And I believe that it was just getting popular at this time. I connected with my friend on facebook and I learned to like it especially with the fact that I get see pictures of what my friend looks like now and how she's changed and growed up. Consequently, I ended up receiving friend requests from many people I knew back in elementary, and I was happy to connect with them again.
ReplyDeleteI usually don't talk much. But Facebook encouraged me to go out into the world and talk with people and network. It partly affected how I socialize in real life, encouraging me to want to see my friends again face-to-face, which happened with my very first friend who introduced me to Facebook. Social media therefore I believe was for the better of me.
My sketchbooks from the time before I logged onto Pinterest show little improvement - the same smiling pixie-faced stick figures, again and again. After I gained access to a wealth of reference images, they improved slowly, but the sketchbook from the month I discovered Tumblr (and its grand community of fanartists) is a trove of my best work. There's no way I could have gotten where I am today in drawing without Tumblr and the artists I met there.
ReplyDeleteSocial media change my life in a big way. In high school, I only have few friend, but when I find out that she wrote something really bad about me, I did not talk to her anymore. After that, I view the world in a different way. I feel like everyone is hiding something. I cannot not trust people anymore after that. After several months when Starcraft 2 came out, i meet my best friend atm. That why I believe gaming can help you find friend with same interest
ReplyDeleteSocial media has exposed me to a variety of different opinions on controversial issues such as gun ownership, abortion, gay rights, and religion. I would not have been exposed to these opinions otherwise. I feel that they have influenced my views on these issues, which in turn influences my outlook on life.
ReplyDeleteSocial media as showed me that people act way different on the internet than in real life. It made me really hate social media and I've really declined my use of social media to this day
ReplyDeleteTangent to Meagan's point, I would say that I've noticed how certain people change the way they act in reality in order to bolster their appearance on social media. For example, they will take selfies or group photos during every moment of their physical life so they can upload it to social media and make themselves look popular or fun.
ReplyDeleteOn a slightly different note, with so many different platforms now, I find myself checking my phone all the time because I know that if I don't have a notification on one platform, perhaps I'll have one on another.
Social media has showed me that you can be friends or follow many people, but sometimes when you see them in your daily life you realize that they are complete strangers, which is awkward.
ReplyDeleteyeah people act very different in the online world then in real life. It's very weird because when you seen them in person. they seem to not be the person they said they would be. i agree with Meagan though.
ReplyDeleteSocial media has provided a lot of forms of communication with my friends, whether it's through Facebook or a video game's chat system, I'm able to keep in touch with my friends. I hang out with those people the most, so I think that social media has a large part in that. I'm pretty bad at texting people out of the blue to hang out, but when I see that they're online somewhere I can send them a message and get together much easier.
ReplyDeleteI am very self-aware about what I do with social media, so haven't had very many problems. Social media has allowed me to keep in contact with people that I no longer see in person. Many of these people have moved away or are very busy. Social media allows us to communicate anywhere at any time that is convenient for us.
ReplyDeleteSocial media has changed communication with my social networks quite a bit. Its both in good and bad. On one side, communication is quicker but communication as a whole is degraded and with that, the quality of relationships with people. Even with that, I can still say that our world has progressed for the better. Just doesn't mean we *are* better.
ReplyDeleteSocial media has allowed me to keep in touch with the friends that I can no longer visit in person.
ReplyDeleteSocial media, as most people understand it, has actually had little effect on my development. I didn't create my facebook account until my high-school years, don't have a twitter, only just signed up for tumblr. Instead, my earliest memories of "social media" was lurking on the role-play boards on Neopets when I was young. The idea of collaborative story-telling appealed to me then, as it does now, and without that introduction a lot of my creative development would have gone differently.
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