Proposal Blog

For my argument paper i have decided to side with the argument that Internet addiction is a true disorder. In my research i have found that there are a lot of people who feel they are troubled by this disorder. I have also had an experience with Internet addiction. when i was younger I was always trying to get online whenever i could. My mom ended up making a rule that I was only allowed to be on for a half hour a day because between my sisters and i we were always on. But when i was at my grandmas or my dads I could be online whenever i wanted for however long that i wanted. I think that the addiction is real because i think i fell under the category of being addicted. I think that there is enough research out there to support my claim. There are also good arguements that say that it is not an addiction but I think people need to realize that there are people who really have this addiction and need help dealing with it.

Reflection Blog

For my multimodal project I worked on internet addiction. One thing that really upsets me about this class is the fact that no one ever told me what this class was going to be like. I thought it was going to be just another English class where we wrote papers and did research and learned how to be a better writer. No one told me everything was going to be on the computer. I am not good with computers and everytime I ask for help whoever is helping me gives me attitude or looks at me like im stupid because i dont know what they are talking about. It really makes me mad. How am I supposed to succeed in this class working on projects like this if when i ask for help i dont get any? This class is so confusing i never know whats going on I think it is ridiculous. But the project that I have done. I did it to the best of my ability. The podcast part is ridiculous i think because it doesnt make any sense why we need it. The power point i think is pointless but it's ok I did it anyway. it was difficult I guess because I do not really know how to do a podcast no one explained it, we were givin a tutorial but that really doesnt help. This project really isn't going to help me learn to do anything with what I plan to do later in life.

Internet addiction true or just an excuse

My research question is is there such a thing as internet addiction? My claim to that statment is yes there is such a thing as internet addiction due to the research i have done I have found doctors who will argue both sides. Some will say yes internet addiction is a true addiction. The others would argue that internet addiction is just an excuse for excessive internet use.

Podcast

i dont know how to link my podcast here so if you want to listen to it you are going to have to go to my purdue site to hear it.

proposal

For this next project i have decided to change my topic slightly from MySpace vs. Facebook to internet addiction. I think that there is more information out there about internet addiction and if it is truely a disease as opposed to which internet site is better. I plan to research this topic through the library at PUC. Another reason why I chose this topic is because I think that there really is a problem with people being addicted to the internet. I think it makes people close themselves off from the world around them because they beieve they have the world at their fingertips, in their own home. But in reality they are doing nothing but closing themselves off from the world around them. There are other ways to communicate with your friends than to sit online all day and night and chat with them. Go out get something to eat go to the movies take a walk in the park. I also think that people rely too much on the internet and when their internet crashes they feel extremely lost. There are other ways to get the information you need than to surf the net.

Hypertext Essay

I think that overall this assignment was very hard to understand. It could have just been me though. I didn't figure out what I needed to do until Monday in class which didn't give me much time to fix it up and do what i need to do to get a good grade. The problem is if i would have known earlier in the assignment that i didn't know what i was supposed to do i would have asked questions, but what do you do when you don't know what to ask? This assignment would have been so much easier had it been on paper but yes i know that wouldn't be a hypertext essay then. I don't know what else to say about this assignment like i said my biggest hang up was the confusion. i think the next time a professor assigns this to a class they need to hand out something like the email/handout that we received on Monday.

Technology and Me

When I think back I realized that I've always used technology. Not just basic technology like the kind we use everyday and take total advantage of but computers, cell phones etc. All through elementary school I had computer classes. In those classes I never learned anything but typing and how to play games. That is all fine and good but growing up I never had a computer in my home until I was in the 7th or 8th grade. And when it comes to a cell phone I didn't get one of those until I was a freshman in highschool and I was one of very few people at that time to have one. Which looking back on that now seems strange. When you look around you see almost everyone with one in thier hand or clipped to thier hip or something. Just like now when you enter any home you are bound to find a computer.
When you look around and you see people with cell phones and computers and they dont know how to use them you begin to wonder if they got them to keep up with the times or if they got them because they really wanted them. I know that I wanted a cell phone. And my dad finally gave me one when they started taking the pay phones out of my school. A lot of kids get theirs taken away for running up the bill and they think they cant survive without one but the truth is we don't really need a cell phone and we don't really need a computer. They are just two technological advances that our society has taken advantage of. I truely believe that these two things make us much lazier. Yes they make our lives easier but then again what are house phones for? Has anyone heard of a library? We can survive without these things but we won't ever stop using them becuase we have become dependant on them.

My Space

Let me just say that I hate hate hate MySpace. Let's just say that I have experienced the whole "MySpace" phase and I feel that it was a total waste of my time. I believe that (Please do not take offense to what I am going to say I am mostly referring to my circle friends) a great majority of people who have a MySpace are extremely immature. When people want to say something to you they say it in a comment rather than to your face. I think that MySpace creates too much drama between friends. Now maybe my opinion is tainted because of my personal experiences with the site. I will not dwell on my experiences but because of the immaturity of my "friends" on MySpace I deleted my site and my boyfriend deleted his and several of my other friends followed suit. On the other hand though, one of my best friends from work met her fiance on MySpace so I guess it is a good way to meet people. There is also that thought in the back of your head of "Who am I really talking to?" You hear on the news about child molesters getting in contact with little girls who are too young to even have a MySpace. I mean wow, my little sister knows all about the site and she told me of a girl who is a little older than her that was murdered by a stranger she met on MySpace. Seriously are sites like MySpace really necessary? I know that really is not the point of this blog but how can you talk about your experiences with sites like this without discussing points such as this?

Popular Culture

As I sit here and think of the way that Popular Culture has been a part of my life I realize that overall I do not follow the "mainstream" flow of things. In middle and high school when, like all other kids at that age, I was trying to fit in of course I wanted the newest coolest clothes and the most expensive shoes and I thought that without all of that the people that I wanted to be friends with would not even know that I existed. That is when I realized that I did not need all of that to have some of the most amazing friends a person could have. So now I do not go looking for what is new and cool but I have developed my own unbiased opinion on what I believe is cool. When i get up in the morning I don't dress to impress I wear what I feel most comfortable in.
Now, when it comes to music I am the same way. I listen to everything from rap and hip hop to country and alternative and the list goes on. My sister is into bands like "Boys like Girls" and "Misfits" and I like artists like "Jordan Sparks" and "T-Payne" and we are constantly telling one another to listen to one song or the other from various artists. When you look through my mp3 player you can find just about anything you are in the mood for.
So I guess you can say overall Popular Culture has been a factor in my life in some form or another weather it is music or clothes or the television shows that I watch. But I don't think that affects all of the choices I make.