blogs are used by many different types of people. blogs can be personal, political or professional. personal blogs can also be used as a form of communication. some people use blogs to express their thoughts and ideas. sharing personal ideas on various topics are popular choices for blogs. just reports on current events is also often seen. information that can be read quick and quickly states it purpose can generate many views and become popular.
talking to others about things that interest them and giving their own opinion is also a popular choice. blogs about cooking or gaming are great examples. sharing a new recipe and showing how to do it to many people is comforting for some people. others also blog for money. blogging and commenting on popular restaurant or a gaming post and stating their opinions is a way to generate some money. giving positive reviews and praising the product to giving it more attention will usual mean more money for you based on how maybe people are referred to it by you. reading and interacting with others through a blog post might be comfortable to some. they might not like talking to huge crowds and may tend to get nervous.
making a blog for this course can be seen as a positive thing. interacting with others and getting interested in blogs and technology history is a goal that can be achieved. researching different and interesting topics each week is a good exercise.
I had made a blog before. I also follow a couple of interesting blogs such as gaming blogs. reading a review on a particular game influences if I would buy it. discussing a game despite it being good or bad is a great experience. meeting and talking to people online about similar topics and becoming friends is a great way for the socially awkward. other gaming blogs post video reviews which are better because you can now see the emotion and action in the person making the review, instead of just reading a couple of paragraphs. if i had to make another blog that is what it would be based on.
Saturday, October 24, 2015
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Blog Entry #3
I personally like to use computer to computer communications. Besides
family at home, I don't really talk to people face to face, unless Facetime
counts. I like talking to my friends by text because it’s much more convenient.
Working in a loud construction site with everyone yelling and loud machinery
going, it’s not easy to talk to someone on the phone. Quick texts to friends or
my boss are better at being sent and received then me yelling into a phone
trying to get them to hear me.
I do enjoy having face to face conversations at times. This week I attended New York Comic Con and it was a mixture of face to face and technology communication. Texting my friends and telling them what I was see and being able to send pictures is great. Meeting and taking pictures with a writer or artist or actor and talking about their work and bonding over something that we both enjoy is a great feeling. Finding people that enjoy the same things as me and being excited and talking about it while waiting in line is great. Holding a 15 minute conversation was easy this weekend. I would prefer talking to my best friends face to face because we are all pretty loud and outgoing but with everyone working and in school it’s tough to get together. I do put up a wall sometimes, which then I don't really like talking or I'm not interesting in the conversation of the group.
I can see the point that Sherry Turkle is trying to make. Besides taking photos of people and with people, I didn't use my phone that often this weekend. Walking around and looking at booths and admiring peoples work was great. But seeing other people just walking around and looking down at their phones and bumping into people. People sitting on the floor and looking down at their phones. Seeing them not notice the huge space of exciting and wonderful things around them was kind of a sad thing to see. people are really missing out on good times and sometimes lose good friends because they can’t hold a good conversation or always glued to their smartphones and checking their social media.
I do enjoy having face to face conversations at times. This week I attended New York Comic Con and it was a mixture of face to face and technology communication. Texting my friends and telling them what I was see and being able to send pictures is great. Meeting and taking pictures with a writer or artist or actor and talking about their work and bonding over something that we both enjoy is a great feeling. Finding people that enjoy the same things as me and being excited and talking about it while waiting in line is great. Holding a 15 minute conversation was easy this weekend. I would prefer talking to my best friends face to face because we are all pretty loud and outgoing but with everyone working and in school it’s tough to get together. I do put up a wall sometimes, which then I don't really like talking or I'm not interesting in the conversation of the group.
I can see the point that Sherry Turkle is trying to make. Besides taking photos of people and with people, I didn't use my phone that often this weekend. Walking around and looking at booths and admiring peoples work was great. But seeing other people just walking around and looking down at their phones and bumping into people. People sitting on the floor and looking down at their phones. Seeing them not notice the huge space of exciting and wonderful things around them was kind of a sad thing to see. people are really missing out on good times and sometimes lose good friends because they can’t hold a good conversation or always glued to their smartphones and checking their social media.
Friday, October 2, 2015
Blog Entry #2
War Games was a very interesting film. The way the film predicted war
outcomes for that time was very cool. Another good film that Dr. Barry
recommended to watch was The Imitation
Game which is based on the story of Alan Turing and his code breaking
machine during WWII.
Getting access to passwords then and now has always been difficult and easy at the same time. While some passwords are easy and some are very hard, eventually they will be found. Like in the film, some people are just careless and write down their passwords to very important things. The safe thing to do is to memorize it and to use a long difficult password with letters, numbers, and symbols. Hackers also have programs that can run algorithms at a ridiculous rate to figure out passwords, which is usually depicted in spy films. Weak passwords can cause major damage when figured out by the wrong person.
Communication has also changed from the time in which War Games was set in. we now have many means of communication in case any one of them fails. Using smart phones, laptops, PCs and tablets that are connected to the internet and social media connects use to anyone in the world. The classic phone call is now rarely used, especially with young adults. Chatrooms. Instant Messengers, and webcam chat programs are now the go to way to connect to another person.
Backdoors to computer programs absolutely still exist. Programmers need a quick way to access their programs or games to apply updates or patches. They must be heavily protected and changed often because if anyone else gains access to the program code, they can really mess it up and it would take a long time to find the mistake and fix it.
Big computers rooms are mainly filled with servers that contain loads of information. I once went on a high school trip to a Con Edison building in Manhattan and they had two floors just filled with severs and maintenance and updates were constantly being done.
Computers and programs that interact with us in now very popular. Siri on the iPhone is a perfect example. It can understand you and do voice to text messages. Games that change based on your pervious choices are also popular now. The video game Until Dawn is a great example on how the game changes. roll playing games also have different story lines depending on your character selection at the very beginning and then continues changing as your progress through the game.
Getting access to passwords then and now has always been difficult and easy at the same time. While some passwords are easy and some are very hard, eventually they will be found. Like in the film, some people are just careless and write down their passwords to very important things. The safe thing to do is to memorize it and to use a long difficult password with letters, numbers, and symbols. Hackers also have programs that can run algorithms at a ridiculous rate to figure out passwords, which is usually depicted in spy films. Weak passwords can cause major damage when figured out by the wrong person.
Communication has also changed from the time in which War Games was set in. we now have many means of communication in case any one of them fails. Using smart phones, laptops, PCs and tablets that are connected to the internet and social media connects use to anyone in the world. The classic phone call is now rarely used, especially with young adults. Chatrooms. Instant Messengers, and webcam chat programs are now the go to way to connect to another person.
Backdoors to computer programs absolutely still exist. Programmers need a quick way to access their programs or games to apply updates or patches. They must be heavily protected and changed often because if anyone else gains access to the program code, they can really mess it up and it would take a long time to find the mistake and fix it.
Big computers rooms are mainly filled with servers that contain loads of information. I once went on a high school trip to a Con Edison building in Manhattan and they had two floors just filled with severs and maintenance and updates were constantly being done.
Computers and programs that interact with us in now very popular. Siri on the iPhone is a perfect example. It can understand you and do voice to text messages. Games that change based on your pervious choices are also popular now. The video game Until Dawn is a great example on how the game changes. roll playing games also have different story lines depending on your character selection at the very beginning and then continues changing as your progress through the game.
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