Thursday, January 22, 2009
Class Prompt (Free writing)
I found out quickly that college life was not quite what I had expected. As soon as I stepped forth into my dorm, it all hit me at once. After saying my goodbyes to my mom and dad, it was just like "WOW" this is it. With waking myself up, doing my own laundry, paper assignments already due the next week, this was clearly not the high school life I was used to. There is a whole lot more responsibilities than I never thought there could be. My parents always told me that college is going to be a lot different than from what you were used to Andrew. But being the all-knowing teenager I thought I was, it was going to be a walk in the park. I'm going to clearly tell all incoming student this, "College life is NEVER going to be what you expected."
Monday, January 19, 2009
The Facebook Addiction (Blog #1)
The Facebook Addiction Spreads
“Angela Adair Fowler”
MSU Jan14th, 2005
With the two given articles on the popular website known as “Facebook.” The first one being entitled “Facing the Facebook” by Michael Bugeja, a professor and director at the University of Iowa, explains the distractions of the internet site. The second article written by Angela Adair Fowler, a senior at the Mississippi State University, goes into detail on the positives yet effective ways to limit your self to Facebook.
Being a Student myself at the University of South Carolina-Aiken, I was more in favor of the article written by Fowler. As a frequent Facebook junkie, I can relate to the young population of a student body to a university. I agree with Fowler in the fact that Facebook does seem to have this sweeping addictive twist to it self. With its hundreds of groups for those with common interest in music and activities and its widespread population for a easy way to communicate to your friends and sometimes family, I find myself spending at least a few hours a day on Facebook, just chatting to friends and joining groups. Fowler does state in her article that even though this “pestilence” does have its side effects of descending grades and loss of sleep. I believe personally that it’s the user that needs to prioritize their time, when it comes to doing homework or attending a certain meeting, or whatever the case may be it is their responsibility to complete the task on time. Facebook, is probably the one of the most common used forms of communication, not only is most useful in planning weekend activities and catching up on the latest media and gossip, it is a good form of meeting new people, classmates and teachers to communicate back and forth on there weekly assignments or missed work.
In Fowler’s article, her views are most certainly very balanced out. Fowler states in paragraph three “side effects may cause grade reduction and sleep deprivation” (pg.94). These side effects are due to the amount of time spent joining pointless groups and searching for friends that you see everyday. But Fowler also stated on paragraph seven and eight that, “anyone can talk to anyone without barriers. And we can do it all on our own time, without leaving our own comfort zone. And where can you find a place that you only talk about one common interest. People do not have a sign on their foreheads proclaiming they’re interested in ‘80s movies and skeeball” (pg.94/95). Facebook is so popular because if you look the young adult generation, its consisted of high technology, games, communication, and Facebook contains all of those, which attracts a massive amount of people. People find this site so addictive due to the endless possibilities that Facebook offers and not many things are out there that can be accomplished by sitting on the couch with the laptop in hand. People are more than likely to be them selves online rather than offline, because they will not have to deal with confrontation, which gives them a couple of minutes to reply to the guy or girl they are talking to on IM. I strongly believe that Facebook defiantly has its positives and negatives, and as Fowler is more for the Facebook website, she understands the negative influence that they can have on users, which she clearly states in this article.
“Angela Adair Fowler”
MSU Jan14th, 2005
With the two given articles on the popular website known as “Facebook.” The first one being entitled “Facing the Facebook” by Michael Bugeja, a professor and director at the University of Iowa, explains the distractions of the internet site. The second article written by Angela Adair Fowler, a senior at the Mississippi State University, goes into detail on the positives yet effective ways to limit your self to Facebook.
Being a Student myself at the University of South Carolina-Aiken, I was more in favor of the article written by Fowler. As a frequent Facebook junkie, I can relate to the young population of a student body to a university. I agree with Fowler in the fact that Facebook does seem to have this sweeping addictive twist to it self. With its hundreds of groups for those with common interest in music and activities and its widespread population for a easy way to communicate to your friends and sometimes family, I find myself spending at least a few hours a day on Facebook, just chatting to friends and joining groups. Fowler does state in her article that even though this “pestilence” does have its side effects of descending grades and loss of sleep. I believe personally that it’s the user that needs to prioritize their time, when it comes to doing homework or attending a certain meeting, or whatever the case may be it is their responsibility to complete the task on time. Facebook, is probably the one of the most common used forms of communication, not only is most useful in planning weekend activities and catching up on the latest media and gossip, it is a good form of meeting new people, classmates and teachers to communicate back and forth on there weekly assignments or missed work.
In Fowler’s article, her views are most certainly very balanced out. Fowler states in paragraph three “side effects may cause grade reduction and sleep deprivation” (pg.94). These side effects are due to the amount of time spent joining pointless groups and searching for friends that you see everyday. But Fowler also stated on paragraph seven and eight that, “anyone can talk to anyone without barriers. And we can do it all on our own time, without leaving our own comfort zone. And where can you find a place that you only talk about one common interest. People do not have a sign on their foreheads proclaiming they’re interested in ‘80s movies and skeeball” (pg.94/95). Facebook is so popular because if you look the young adult generation, its consisted of high technology, games, communication, and Facebook contains all of those, which attracts a massive amount of people. People find this site so addictive due to the endless possibilities that Facebook offers and not many things are out there that can be accomplished by sitting on the couch with the laptop in hand. People are more than likely to be them selves online rather than offline, because they will not have to deal with confrontation, which gives them a couple of minutes to reply to the guy or girl they are talking to on IM. I strongly believe that Facebook defiantly has its positives and negatives, and as Fowler is more for the Facebook website, she understands the negative influence that they can have on users, which she clearly states in this article.
Andrew Mewshaw
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