Whither the Individual

Samantha Seigerman





Face book has become a new technology that has become almost a part of us. Some of us can’t even go one full day without logging onto our Face book account. As we join these different social networking sites we expand our identities. By creating our facebook friends we allow ourselves to create a profile and an image for others to view. We also expand our horizons by finding new and old friends. Social networking allows us to connect with others via the internet whether its with old friends or new ones.
I personally have found people from my kindergarten class that I never thought I would keep in touch with or even see again. It is nice to have a site that allows you socially to connect with others via the internet. Facebook also offers features like having your own photo album which to some can be an invasion of privacy.
Myspace and facebook a two very different social networking sites in the sense that facebook is more realistic in the way that facebook allows you to put more personal information like what college you go to and can set people up with different networks. Whether it’s a network of your college or your highschool you can join these networks regardless of what race, ethnicity or type of person you are.
There is however the issue with privacy and the loss of personal space. Facebook while it can be private if the user desires to do so, it is on the interent and can be viewable to whoever has access on the net. Sometimes we can get a little to comfortable with what we put on our Facebook like pictures or what we say to other people. This can be somewhat of an invasion of privacy to others being that people have accesses to all your information and photos. This can include different things whether it’s your mom being nosy or your boss looking to see if you’re a serious enough person by judging your photos. We put so much information ourselves on our face book that although our privacy is invaded we allow it to be that way.

Web 2.0 and Digital Nation

1. While it is very true that in today's generation tv shows and ads try to look more home grown and copy what is on the web, I think that it will continue to be this way due to the fact that people are so "obsessed" with today's media in the web. For example etrade is a good example of home grown but the public enjoy it even though it is somewhat of a botched up advertisement. Over time amature user generated contenet will improve over time because the web keeps chaning over time as well.

2. I use Facebook as my most viewed site and it is surely addicting. It allows me to have pictures of myself from other friends and can give me capablilties of finding new friends and keeping in touch with my current ones. One of the reasons why Facebook is so much more popular and sucessful is because it is less of a "sketchy" based sites. There are more petifiles and america posts different pictures of themselves as if they want to be friends with random strangers. Facebook allows you to connect on a more college based level finding friends, tagging pictures and who you want to have as your friend or who you dont.

3. Transparency in the social media world is important because people need different things and different sites in the web and diverse things. It's also important where the information comes from. I also don't think it is any less important when it comes to the online world and the offline I think they both are equally the same when it comes to transparency.

Mcloughlin Final Project

This is a different collage of different mediums. There are different examples of new outbreaks of technology including the iphone. The iphone has all the capabilities of all the mediums that are pasted on the phone. Before the iphone these were new discoveries in technology. There is Facebook which a social networking site with millions of users on the web. Then we have the new Flip video recorder which is a video camera that has a usb attached to it so you can upload your videos. The invention of XM radio became very popular. Hundreds of different radio stations that people can access for a fee without commercial. Then there is video chat which allows people to communicate with the other and see them via web wherever they are. The television of course is an obvious medium. What would we do without them !? The digital camera became famous and allows us to take pictures and upload them to the computer. The Kindle is a book computer that you can download any book. Twitter is another social networking site that allows anyone including celebrities to say whatever they are feeling or doing on the web and allowing users to access it. The cell phone itself is another obvious one. The digital clock has helped in many ways. Also there is photo bucket that can allow users to store the photos on a public (or make it private) website. Being able to shop online is a great thing that was not always accessible. The rest of the pictures are different "apps" such as itunes which is supported by the invention of the ipod that allows us to upload thousands of songs.

Example of Mediums

Here we have Facebook. A social networking site that allows people to communicate as well as post photos and meet new people. Facebook is currently at 500 Million users.

Here is an an example of video chat. A recently new invented technology that allows us to see other people via web.

Here is an example of a medium. This an iphone which has camera and music storage capabilities as well as interent and an array of apps.