Facebook Article

I have been a facebook user for about 4 1/2 years. I created one when I first entered college and I’m glade I did it. I was able to stay in communication with those I’ve known before college. It was nice to see their status and know that they were doing okay away at school. Then it branched out to those I knew at school. I used it for socializing and education. Sometimes a student would facebook me to ask for a homework assignment. It is a great social networking tool. Other ways that facebook is utilized is for promotion of an event, awareness about current events and even fundraisers. Usually to get the word out and have a lot more people aware of what is going on in the community.
I agree with this: “The potential uses of Facebook are perhaps more limited than those of Second Life, but the connectivity of Facebook mixed with its ability for integrated multimedia, polling, and asynchronous chat could be put to use in an academic setting” from A World I Don't Inhabit: Disquiet and Identity in Second Life and Facebook Fixed. Facebook creates another way for people to stay connected. With that being said I’m not sure being connected with a professor on facebook is acceptable. The idea of a higher authority being able to read what you did last night makes you feel a little uneasy to be honest. I have a mentor who I love so much but we are not friends on facebook. It keeps life separate. I’m not afraid of what my professor knows about me but at the same time I want to write what I would like to write without feeling censored.
Feeling censored from a professor should be the least of my worries. I say that because I don’t think any of my information is private. You can actually goggle someone’s name and his or her facebook page will pop up. Allowing millions of people maybe with the same name view your facebook. So if all I share is how class was or maybe if I’m studying abroad. I don’t like to put anything major on facebook. And I don’t think anyone else should either. But who am I to tell someone what to put on his or her page. Everyone is allowed freedom of speech. I think there’s etiquette for facebook like perceived loss in staff productivity; data leakage from staff gossiping freely in an open environment; malware and phishing scams practiced by cyber-crooks (Social Networking and Business page 2). All those to me should be the things you don’t do with facebook. That seems like your taking advantage of your privilege to share information.
I try my best not to air my personal life on facebook. I guess by doing that I have not been in an awkward situation because of something I posted or did not post.

Video Interview

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About Video Interview

To begin to think of what to shoot for my assignment wasn’t too hard because over and over my friends and I express our frustration with attending and living at Buffalo State College. So in my mind who and what to interview was easy. Trying not to over analyze the project was the hard part for me. Its just you never fully grasp the understanding of what the professor is looking for but here I was able to still complete my project. Trying to still figure out the b-rolls to put in was a little challenging because I was still trying to figure out what is the best way to capture Buff state. So I just shot regular people walking on campus. The point was not to make Buff state look bad but to get the real opinions of a few students who has attended here since there freshman year.
In the video I am the talk show host and my friends are sitting in chairs of course looking at the camera. And although you cannot see my face I’m still prevalent in the interview. I asked questions such as how has it been attending Buffalo State College, tell me things you like about the school, dislike, what are some upgrades you suggest for the schools and about classes and there major, etc. They had a lot to say. Such as a problem that they have is the parking at the school. I know from experience that even though Buff state does not allow freshman and sophomores have cars on campus that parking is still inconvenient. Also how living on campus is not what it is appeared to be. It is very noisy from the other students, the rooms are really small and not having your own space is a problem when dormming. My friends and I do not live on campus because of those problems.
So they were able to explain their frustration in a well mannered way and without being in an uproar. They tried to give some positive feedback, such, as the faculties are there to help them when they need help. Or that attending Buff State is not that bad it just needs major upgrades. I like the video because hopefully a few students agree with it. They will know that other people understand there frustrations with attending and living on campus.

I just wanted to do something that i was interested in and had a lot of questions about. My friends did an amazing job expressing the way they felt about our school. It always seems like students voices are not heard and I guess that is primarily because things have not been changed, so how will we ever know. We all understand that the school is trying but my question is are they trying hard enough?

Creating Wiki Page

First I would like to say that I enjoyed creating a wikihow. It was my first time and technology wise it was a good experience. It wasn’t hard to do mainly because the hardest part was for my partner and to create a topic that wikihow didn’t already have. My partner and I were trying to figure out what we had in common and as females generally do it’s shopping. What is comfortable and what is not. So we first sat and pondered about it and finally we came up with the topic “How to find the right pair of snow boots”. Granted that we are attending school that we do need all the snow gear we can possibly need. I thought it was awesome topic because when I first started attending Buffalo State College, the main question was always what to put on my feet when it gets cold.

It was a very cool experience. My partner Heather and I worked as a team to come up with topics and different ideas to make this wikihow a 1,000 words. We thought of the different variety of boots that we have to wear for snow boots. We thought of pros and cons of the boots. Such as the price range, how to take care of the boots and when to even wear them. We broke up into categories of expertise and amazingly it tied together with no problem. Our parts that we had written went very well together that it was as if one of us wrote it.

When we met in class we knew what we were going to write and how. Then we exchanged numbers. The next day we met up in the library and copied and pasted our thoughts together. We re-read it to make sure our thoughts came together and we high-fived each other. We were so happy.

As we discussed previously in class, wikis has many down falls that can inflect your opinion on it. Like for me personally I don’t like the fact that you can change or edit information. Okay, yes it is suppose to be a place where people can make an input but it’s like where is the line being drawn. I noticed on my wikihow they put how it is not a wikihow and maybe shut down. Who are they to tell me that it isn’t telling someone how to buy a pair of snow boots without writing steps with number.

I would love to make inputs on wikis but I don’t know how much time I can invest in it. If I don’t like the fact that other people changed information, I wouldn’t change it.