Social Networking

How I describe it: I think Social Networking is an interaction between friends and family in real time, no waiting on a return e-mail or waiting for somebody to text back. For example facebook you can talk to multiple people at once without having to go back open up another e-mail etc, Now e-mail sites like MSN or Yahoo! have their own messengers, but people are more into facebook and all those sites because all their friends are right there and not everybody has a MSN or Yahoo!. There's also other form of Social Networking such as Youtube you can make videos for possibly millions of other people to see and they can comment on it. There are many more Social Networking sites such as Myspace, Twitter, etc and the list goes on and on.

How I am involved in it: I am not involved in Social Networking near as much as most people like my family and friends. I don't do facebook, Myspace or sites like that because basically I have a cell phone and that's all I need to talk to people. I see my parents on facebook for mindless hours but I understand people want to talk to their friends, but it's a little much. I do get involved and some Social Networking like Youtube, I did make a channel for it, but I have yet to really get into uploading videos a lot. Youtube for me is basically just watching videos when i'm bored or if someone I do like to watch on Youtube like Raywilliamjohnson has made a new video I'll watch it. The only other Social Networking others than texting I am involved in if you count it would be if I was playing Xbox and talking to Justin or whoever over the Xbox.

How it effects me: Social Networking effects me in several ways it can connect me with friends I have not talked to in a while fairly easily. Or if I need to ask my parents something you don't have to go all the way home to ask you just simply text them. Social Networking can also make you a lot of new friends that you may never meet, but having those friends to talk to and have a good time with is what counts. You turn on your Xbox and you got people to play a game with rather than by yourself which can get pretty boring. Social Networking just all around makes things so much better than it used to be.

Tuesday's Post

Today I have messed with jamstudio.com some more and figured out what I am going to do on my screencast or whatever I use.

I started writing a script for my video so I don't just blank out on what I was going to say. It's a pretty cool website for up and coming music artists if that's what your into or want to do later in life. It's basically a cure for writers block or whatever the phrase is for musicians. I don't know a whole lot about all the notes in music, but if you mess around enough with it you come up with a decent sounding beat.

I tried to make a beat or two and finished a couple so I could have an example/sample in my video. And we'll see how that goes next class.

Weekly Post

The site i'm working on is JamStudio.com for the Web 2.0 tool, basically it's a webpage where you can make your own music kind of like garageband that's on the mac, but without buying or downloading files. Even though you can buy a "vip pass" for JamStudio.com so you can use all of the beats and notes to make your music. Some people have actually made record deals from using JamStudio.com. I messed with it a bit and made a couple test songs to see what I could make. Even without the "vip pass" you can make decent music.

Now on the other hand spring break is just minutes away and i'm ready for it even though I have no idea what I might do during the time. It's just nice to be out of school and relax for a while.

Technology topic

Technology helps me nearly everyday in my education, example is my Ipod you can download apps like unit converters, dictionaries, and it comes with a calculator. Others things such as the internet help you so much in education even though some may be unreliable you just have to know what to search for. Technology would make learning easier and it does because say you don't want to get a notebook and pencil out to take notes. Your ipod has a notes app and you can just type it on your ipod plus it's a bit faster to do it that way in my opinion. It helps you get a lot more organized than looking around your backpack for that one piece of paper you put your notes on. With the Ipod you can set a title for each note so you just open the app and look for the right title. It makes everything much more simple than taking notes used to be. So I believe technology does have a lot to do with my education.

Another blog post

Finished my google search stories as seen on the post below this one. I have also found something interesting on my alerts about all the stuff happening in Japan pretty much they send in these robots that can climb debris and whatever is in the way then it has a snake like camera that can navigate through debris and search houses that would normally take a while to clear their way to i'm not going to explain the whole article, but if you want to read the entire article here's a link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20042945-1.html?tag=cnetRiver

Google search story

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