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Welcome to the shananigans of the interwebs! 

 

In the Shananigans of the interwebs, I compiled information from other sources and fun entertaining videos to point out some negative aspects of social media and how it's affecting our interactions with one another. The videos and all the bibliographies help express constant argument in the internet and also how we’ve become not exactly self centered but not as friendly to one another when given the opportunity to post in social media. 

 

Responce to "Is Google Making us Stupid?" by Nicholas Carr

In the essay, "Is Google Making us Stupid?" Carr points out this idea of how Google and other internet resources are shortening our attention span, and making us get bored easily. He uses scientist  facts of how paper and screens can be bad for our eyes if we stare at it for to long. His friends have also experienced the same issue as him, that they can barely read something with out wanting to skim it. I agree and disagree with his concept. Mainly because it varies on the kind of texts that I have to read. I can easily read and stay focused with fun facts and entertaining information, or fun books. But when it comes to overloading amounts of historical facts, I feel the need to skim through it. I don't feel like Google is making us stupid. Because it may make it easier for us to search something but we are being taught how to search through the right kinds of information and avoiding Wikipedia.

Information overload

Bibliography:
Internet Addiction: Are We Sharing Too Much?

Paradysz, Jessica. University Wire [Carlsbad] 29 Jan 2014. Retrieved from: http://search.proquest.com/docview/1492222151

In "internet Addiction: Are We sharing Too Much?" Jessica Paradysz, explains how we've slowly began to loose the idea of privacy on the internet. She paints this picture of how back then we were all sort of a "mystery" (Paradysz, 2014) And now we have to show every one our new clothing or food that we are about to it. She points out the dangers of sharing to much information. Such as when getting hired for a job, they are able to see those photos you took last night a party and other embarrassing posts and could possibly have them change their view of you. Also, there is the danger of giving out your address and other confidential information. "People are trusting of the internet," Jessica exclaims. Person information can be easily hacked now. To conclude she reminds us to use Common sense before posting anything.

Toddlers and Touchscreens

Bibliography:

REVIEW --- Books: Touchscreen Toddlers and Instagram Teens

Finnerty, Amy. Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition [New York, N.Y] 31 Aug 2013: C.9. Retrieved from: http://search.proquest.com/docview/1428909281

  Amy Finnerty, exclaims in her article about how kids just starting to learn are already becoming more adapted to technology. She mainly points out that this use of technology is not quite helping the growth in children's minds. "Tech is rewiring human relations." (A. 2013) She helps support this idea by Catherine Steiner-Adair, a clinical psychologist, who has researched a lot about how technology affects us. Catherine explains that phones and other technology often intrudes with the development of a child. Also how little kids are given these gadgets so they are quiet and do not bug there parents.

Grammar Police

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJamLyRMS-A 

Danisnotonfire, a british youtuber, confronts us with an on going problem in social media. He points out that people most often do not care what you have to say, if there's a typo error in it they instantly correct you and or make fun of you for it. We call these people the "grammar police". Dan, says that it's because he types so fast that is mostly the reason why errors occur, and also auto correct is how we blame most of our mistakes. I to have had multiple times where I will post something that I thought was funny and then was discouraged because of some simple typing error. Could slowing down stop the grammar police from correcting us and essentially humiliating us?  

TUMBLR

Bibliography:

"Tumblr has more 'likes' than FB." New York Post [New York, NY] 13 Jan. 2013: 035. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 12 Apr. 2014.

 In the New York document, “Tumblr has more ‘likes than FB.” They discuss about how tumblr is progressing, and how marketers are slowly making there way into the site, do to the audience moving more toward tumblr then Facebook. The author shows through multiple examples of how tumblr does in fact have more likes then Facebook especially for the younger adults. In a survey the discovered that from early teens to about early 20's tumblr is a lot more popular then Facebook. Through large percentages it was shown that there were in fact more users in tumblr.