Semester Project

After sending out my survey i received a plethora of responses from people of all different ages! I'm excited to continue to develop my project and presentation and to fully develop the results of the survey. The results i have received thus far are very interesting in regards to how valued and important social networks are to specific people.

Project Continuation

So far, in regards to my project, i have created my survey and started to send it around to people of all different walks of life. I have emailed it to a few of my peers here at IHA, posted it to any and all of the social networks i use, and had my parents email it to a few of their friends as well. i'm anxious to see what the results are.

Survey Frenzy

To go a little more in depth on what i plan to do for my project, i have created a Google doc. survey that i plan to email to people of all different walks of life. I plan to send it to parents, teachers, and students of all different ages in order to see the importance and effect social media has on their lives. I plan to ask about which source of media they gravitate towards and how many hours a week they tend to spend on them.

Social Media Experiment

For my quarter 4 project, i plan to create a social media survey and try to get inside the lives, and computers of many different people to see how they use social media and what they generally think of it. I plan to ask questions like: how many of your Facebook friends are you friends with in real life? how many hours a day do you spend on the computer? how many of those hours are spent on sites such as twitter and Facebook? do you access these sites on your mobile devices? why do you use them? is there anything about social networking sites you'd like to see change? how has social media affected your life? etc. I am excited to do this because I am very interested in seeing how people spend their time on the computer and how it affects their lives. 

Steubenville Rape Guilty Verdict: The Case That Social Media Won

In this blog post i'm choosing to take a different look at Social Media. In most of my other posts i discuss more of the negative connotations that come with Social Media but in this case  Social Media saves the day. In the rape case of a 16 year old girl, parties involved so idiotically chose to broadcast their actions right to Instagram. A picture was posted on the girl being held down by her arms and legs to the floor; this sealed the deal for the case. Her assailants were undoubtedly charged guilty. not only was a picture posted to Instagram, there was a 12 minute video of the attack recorded, and text messages exchanged. This case really shows not only how stupid some kids can be but also how some Social Media can help serve justice.

"When the smoke goes up, you'll know whats going down"...via Pope Alarm

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/conclave-2013-electing-pope-social-media-world/story?id=18697577

This article discusses the new pope's election and keeping everyone in the know. The website, Pope Alarm, will send all who sign up an email and text message as soon as the billow of white smoke erupts from inside the Vatican. I feel that this latest social media source is both harmful and helpful. most people don't have the time to sit home and watch the TV all day anxiously awaiting the election of the new Pope and most people most definitely do not have the means to travel to Vatican city to watch it all unfold live so having a text sent to your cellphone is very helpful. On the other hand, this can also lead to less and less physical communication and interaction between people. an event like this is huge for the entire world and should be something shared in person with others, rather than anxiously awaiting an email and then continuing on their day.

Be Careful What You Tweet

A week after the terrorizing shootings at Sandy Hook, a principal announced over the loud speaker different rules and regulations along with modifications to security to ensure the student's safety, one student found this all very unnecessary and comical and chose to broadcast his outlandish views to the Twitter world. I found this article very interesting because it focuses on a playful yet slightly vindictive set of a few tweets drastically changing a 16 year old from Miami's entire life.  Austin Bowlin chose to tweet from his cellphone during school that he was going to “shoot up the school this Friday. Prepare yourself” and that he was “making a list and checking it twice. We’re about to see who gets shot up real nice,” according to an arrest report. He also wrote: “Yeah a bunch of little kids died. I could care less. And my school announced it like matters. safe? I could shoot this school up easily.” once arrested, no weapons were found and it was made clear that he was messing around but the police force and the families of all children who attended the high school most definitely did not find it as funny. no one realizes how much what you say online affects your real life until its too late. no one acknowledges who their audience is online and will never know who sees what they're posting until the wrong person sees it and runs with it.

://www.miamiherald.com/2012/12/18/3147196/miami-lakes-teen-arrested-for.html