Hello bloggers!! Happy Thursday or Friday…depending on when I post this. Anyway, I hope everyone’s week has been amazing! Mine has been interesting and exhausting, I did find out that the Oscar Mayer wiener mobile is coming to the store I work at. How awesome is that! I’m a dork, I know, but highly excited so I felt the need to share that with you all. But back to the point of this whole blog, is this weeks prompt! I chose number one on page 253, regarding the kind of things I’ve put on my myspace and/or face book that could potentially be embarrassing in the future.
I’ll start by saying that I love this prompt, it makes you think of the way people see you based on your home page. I know that I have learned a lot about online communication and the craziness of these social websites. Almost everyone has a myspace or face book, literally. I recently found out my grandma has a face book! I didn’t see that coming, but I guess everyone is sort of “getting with the times”. Yet I think this is the issue, for me at least. Too many people are now connected and can access my whole life. Certain people don’t need to see the drunken pictures from the house warming party. I must say though, that as I have gotten older I have became smarter with my social networking.
When I was in high school everyone was on Myspace, for most of us it was the true beginning of people being connected to each other all the time. We all had our own page with a spiel about ourselves along with photos and sparkling graphics. Like most technology I was on the late freight but eventually did make a myspace page. Yet as I said, I was in high school, so most of the things I did was fairly stupid and with out thinking. So my myspace page was spewn with drunken pictures and text basically advertising my bad behavior. But I used it as any other teen did, to keep in contact with friends. Yet a few years later I searched myself, and to my awe the first link was to my horrible myspace page. I was mortified, I couldn’t believe I was so easily found. I didn’t expect my information to be that accessible to the general public. Needless to say, this was a major wake up call.
Now-a-days I do have a face book, but I am very careful as to what I publish for the world to see. I now have a tighter grasp of my future and my goals could possibly be ruined because of some of the stupidity that was on that myspace page. I do have my boss and grandma as friends on face book so that is also a very big reason as to why I keep things mostly professional in this online outlet. Facebook has really changed as technology has, it an easier way for people to communicate with others from other areas. For me this is the main idea, granted we can be ourselves but I suppose that un certain aspects we must censor ourselves as to what it acceptable to others. Especially those others that can have power over our lives. I think we need to be careful what we say, even if its in a selfish aspect it will still save us from the embarrassment we witness in 20 years.
Anyway bloggers! Have a good night and an awesome weekend! Have a happy Thanksgiving and stuff your faces full of good food!
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I don't think I have ever tasted oscar Mayer wieners before... I heard they are delicious though. I feel like my life is incomplete. Anyways back to your blog. I am extremely paranoid when it comes to social networking and quite honestly I find it a little boring. These things we do in class, like these blogs are different. We actually have some deep thinking going on while in other things like MySpace or Facebook there is a lot of nonsense. I am not completely anti-social. I like talking to people but I feel like a little too distant when it comes to online conversations. Plus, I like my privacy and I don't appreciate everyone in my business. Besides I have seen my friends pictures and some of the things they have put up. I have a Facebook page but it has been a 4 months since I created it and I haven't been on it once. I like to use the internet for other random things but socializing is not one of my favorite things. The worst part is that my friend put blackmail pictures of me online and the world has seen them. It just makes me like social networking less.
ReplyDeleteI first want to point out that I love how you start your blogs. I think it helps us as the reader to get to know you as the writer. Even if it is just a little insight into you, such as the Oscar Meyer Wiener Mobile coming to your work. It helps give us a sense of your real and not just answering the question. Even though it has nothing to do with your prompt it always gets me interested. I too loved this prompt. It really does make me question my information on Facebook. I too was late with MySpace. It was like everyone had one then by the time I got a MySpace page, Facebook was just kicking into gear. MySpace was a total different experience for me than Facebook is now. For me MySpace was more about whether or not my background looked good. Now with Facebook I am concerned more with what I am saying. I know that my mother has a Facebook so that encourages me to think before I speak. Whenever I go to write something I say to myself “would I be okay if my mom saw this?” I also have learned that people use other people’s Facebook pages to learn about other people.
ReplyDeleteIts funny I never really had a MySpace page. I tried making an account on MySpace once only to realize that it wasn’t for me and instead got hooked on another social network website that I occasionally still use to this day along with facebook. Facebook I think is the more mature version of MySpace. Facebook to me is a more dumbed down version of Myspace, but unlike MySpace Facebook is more tidy and easier to use in all aspects of a social network. Facebook is cleaner, safer, and more user friendly in the sense that it allows more preferences and options than MySpace has to offer.
ReplyDeleteI have regretted what I have done online as well when I was younger, but just like you I have come to accept those mistakes and come to terms with them by rationalizing them to being just mere youthful ignorance on my part for being just young and stupid. We all make mistakes when we are young and it is thanks to those mistakes which we can reflect on to become the mature adults we are today. I am just glad that I can’t find information on myself easily online; this just shows how careful I have been about myself or just how unimportant the things that I have posted in the past have been.