Week 9: Blog to express, not to impress...

People now a days are now engaging with different kinds of social networking sites and blogging sites. When I started blogging, I knew that it would only work if I was completely honest to my followers. Every post I make, I consider how it would affect the people who would see it and if it truly represents what I feel. So far, I think I’ve done pretty well. However my online presence is nonetheless completely different to who I am as a person in real life. On here I am strongly worded and opinionated and I also have the ability to talk openly with you guys about the problems that are troubling us. In real life I am still extremely opinionated but I’m an introvert and lack a bunch of confidence when it comes to problems. I think this is pretty normal, it’s not that I’m lying on here - it’s just that I can appreciate the freedom I gain behind a relatively anonymous blog personality.

My point is that blogging is a condensed aspect of my personality. And I can say that people who blog is more open minded than other people. I actively take all of the parts of myself that I am proud of and that I am unable to do in real life and project them into my online persona. Yes, it is what I believe in and I am honest about it, but it is not who I could possibly be in real life.

Week 8: Effects of New Media in our lives...

New media has changed our lives in many ways. It became a part of our daily lives actually, it became a routine. Internet is very important, yes it is really important. It helps us to connect with our friends and loved ones. It also became a reliable source of everything. In just one click on the internet, you can search what you want. We can easily communicate with other people. As a teenager, internet really became a part of my life. I can't survive without internet unless I have lots hobbies that can replace the internet. Internet was my friend ever since we had an access to it. I spend most of my time in front of my laptop and just surf the net and talk to my friends in cyber space. I use internet to express what I really feel. Internet makes me happy... really happy.

It wasn’t so long ago that newer technologies allowed for people to cover huge areas of distance using just their voice over a wire. Now you can transmit any number of documents, photos, videos, sounds and text from a computer at home or a phone in your pocket. Media is even evolving to the point where you can create and edit on the device in your hand. People on the whole now have the technology to create readily at their disposal. Society is fully able to create any kind of content that they want and these new skills required to do so are ingrained in children from a young age. Automated processes and the ranges of connectivity in the most basic of devices are far more advanced than the devices of the past. What once required planning, methodology, and time to actualize can now be replicated and shared further than ever in less time. Children learn these new age skills as an aspect of their lives much like oral language. They learn by doing without even realizing it. For me, there are good and bad effects of new media. Good effect is that, new media exposes me to different things that I don't know. It helps me understand things well. And the bad effect is that the existence of pornographic materials, hacking and debugging. Some children in the young age will be expose with these kinds of stuff that should not be.

Week 7: Rainy Day...

What to do on a rainy day? There are lots of things that you can do during rainy days. You can eat a lot, sleep the whole day, drink a hot chocolate or milk or you can stay in your room the whole day just to read books or stare at your laptop. But, one of the things that I like to do during rainy days is to stay at my room and just read book. I read books a lot, especially stories about love and adventures. But there is only one thing that I want to do during rainy days, that is to just to stay with your loved one and cuddle the whole day and watch a movie together. (I know it's PBB Teens.) But, this is what I love to do during rainy days. How come I can say that I want this? We're far from each other and I hate it. We haven't seen each other for almost a month or two already. I miss that person. How I wish, we can see each other again. Okay, too much drama...

Some people really hate rainy days. Why? It's because of some reasons. Just like, when you have an appointment or you have a get-together with your friends and it's raining really hard. When it's raining hard, your tendency is not to attend or postponed your get-together. I know how it feels. I really love rainy days. I feel so comfortable when it's raining. When it's raining my problems were temporarily forgotten and it feels so good. I love the sound of how the drops of rain fall in our roof. When it's raining, I think of the person I love. No days have passed that I didn't think of that person. I really miss those days that we're together. I miss those days that when we're watching a movie, we held our hands until the end of the movie. Oh, rainy day...