Discovering this college from the thousands of community colleges in the West Coast was difficult yet a wonderful experience. From California to Washington, there were numerous of community colleges that were the best of the best and the colleges were at beautiful places that I can’t even describe to you.. But, I picked Mt. Hood Community College as my community college of choice from the good reviews to the helpful website. I realized that Mt. Hood was the good choice after I read about the…
Too Much Screan Time The debate on whether screan time is an issue or an overreaction is a topic that may never be seen through. Studdies have come to the concludion that there are at least two basic opinions and concerns followed by parents, teachers, elders, and friends. People have reason to beleive that the internet is the new way to teach visual learners, improve comunication skills for young children, and even a way to bond with family members and friends. However, too much screan…
Albrechtslund, “ Online Social Networking as Participatory Surveillance” published by First Monday, points that online social networking is an chance for the whole public to reconsider the concept of surveillance. He clearly put forward to the audience three questions in the introduction “How can we conceptualize the practice of online social networking? What kind of discourse surrounds the practice of online social networking? What can we learn about surveillance through social networking?” to…
Technology is very useful in everyday life and many people benefit from the breakthroughs that have occurred in the last century. The Internet is one of these breakthroughs that have come into existence during this time frame. It has changed the way we relax, learn, do business, and communicate. Many people believe that the Internet promotes democracy, as it is a symbol of freedom. Evgany Morozov’s article “Technology’s Role in Revolution: Internet Freedom and Political Oppression” is about the…
However, unlike Bumble, it does not achieve this goal by making its tools exclusive to female users instead, it grants its users a form of social proof by only suggesting matches that are connected to the user through mutual Facebook friends. Although this system means that users have a smaller pool of potential dates, many people find that the potential dates are of a higher quality than with…
Naomi Yohannes Embedded Assessment Are social networking sites good for society? Social networking is a popular form of communicating with friends a few feet away or with people who are across the world from you. It has become one of the top forms of communication from the last ten years or so. The spread of being able to use mobile devices to access the internet gradually transformed the nature of our social interactions.While social networking can be beneficial with being able to talk with…
When you take your teens electronics away and they start acting crazy without it that means they are too attached to their social media life and it's time to cut them off. "take Melanie, a 16-year-old Greenwich Village student, who spent up to seven hours a day updating her Facebook and instant messaging with friends. When her previously high school grades began to drop, her…
This Generation of society has no boundary on privacy, with social media and connecting through technology more, It is much easier for private/personal information to get out and into the wrong hands. According to Boonsri Dickinson, a researcher for ZDNet states that “The popular social media feed Facebook, got three clever criminals in New Hampshire a lot of loot.They checked on Facebook to when people weren't home, and being the holiday season leaving their incoming gifts vulnerable. Just…
Social Networking is the perfect way for people to stay in touch with family, friends, and organizations. Many users of social networking sites, such as Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter, have expressed that they no longer see these sites as a way to keep in touch, but rather an addiction that they must feed everyday. An article entitled “College Students ‘Addicted’ to Social Media, Study Finds” by Rick Nauert, Senior News Editor for Psych Central, recalls a study done at the University of Maryland…
In an odd sense, the quick rise of the Social Media platform has taken us as a nation - and the globe altogether - back into the “small-village” mentality with first-hand accounts and reliable, trustable sources. Because of the industrial Revolution, society has drifted away from this form of consumerism. But now, in the world of Social Media, the most trusted of sources are right at our fingertips, with information readily available. The Pre-Industrial…