Facebookistan

This video is about the rapid growing social networking site, Facebook. Facebook allows people to meet new people, catch up with people from their past, and connect with friends. Facebook can be a great tool, but is it the safest. This video shows us how easy it is to access other peoples information. Facebook has become a not so private social networking website. Facebook requires a lot of personal information. They ask your full name, hometown, school, and workplace. This makes it easy for predators to find people. The segment where they talked to the girl who's rapist contacted her through Facebook was horrifying. It crazy to think she could actually have a conversation with him after what he did, she even felt closure. There are many other social networking sites that work in the same way, such as MySpace. There is also Twitter, which doesn't require a lot of personal information. I have also recently noticed the ads on the side of my homepage and all of the ads are pertaining to something I would like. This is where the filter bubbles come in. Facebook is starting to act like a robot, it can see when you are on or offline and see what your searching. Your privacy is gone. Facebookistan is a country that they made up that controls everything that happens. These segments all have one thing in common. It's that they show how easy it is to find people and they show how your privacy has been taken away.

In-Class Blog 11

I thought that the library ethnography assignment was very helpful. This is my second year at West Georgia and I did not know how to find or check out a library book. I also never really thought about using library books as sources. I have always just used online sources. I definitely think you should continue to assign this assignment. It wasn't a difficult assignment, but I felt like I got a lot out of it. I wish we could have spent more time on annotated bibliographies. Since it was worth 100 points I wish we could have spent more time discussing what the format should be and what all we needed to include. I have definitely used things we have learned in class in other classes. The main thing i have used is citing. I have used the worksheets we did to cite other books and articles for other classes. I have also used the things you told us about annotated bibliographies in my online class. We are also doing research papers, so I have used a lot of things I have learned in class on my research paper. I will definitely keep all of the worksheets we have done to use for other classes. I also plan to use the common rhetorical devices sheet to help analyze sources.