FACEBOOK AND MYSPACE

Mostly everyone likes to talk and meet new people, we would call this socializing. These two websites offer us this, giving us opportunities to meet new people and talk to your friends. On these websites you can post comment, pictures, and much more. You can write statements about yourself I could write something like, my name is Adam Guerra I’m your average guy currently going to San Antonio College or also known as SAC. People who look you up or add you as a friend on these websites will be able to view it. So sometimes you got to be careful of what you write about, also be careful of pictures and comments that you post up. You don’t want people reading or seeing something that’s inappropriate. I had to create a Facebook account for class and what I noticed about this website is that it is totally different then Myspace's set up. To me I see it more as a socializing website. Myspace is more for your enjoyment and entertainment. With Myspace you can add music and edit your profile with moving pictures, you can even include pictures of yourself where as with Facebook it’s more of just adding pictures and talking to friends and people. There both great websites especially if you want to get to talking to new people. One thing I like about Facebook is that you can add people from around the world I found that very interesting. They might speak a different language but at times you'll meet someone who can speak English. It's nice to meet people on the other side of the world you can view there photo's and learn a little bit about there culture. We as people need to venture out and meet people learn more about each other. We could learn from others and that's something I will always want to do. Websites like these need to be introduced to everyone and that’s why many people already know of them and use them constantly. Many people also spend so much time chatting on these websites. For example one of my personal experiences, I was up late one night on Myspace talking to someone I had meet from California we where just going on and on with conversation. I finally went to sleep around three in the morning I told myself never again. So I really learned that websites such as these play a big part in today’s world. Back to a future blog I wrote, you can even become famous through these websites. Like such rap artist as Soulja Boy, so they really open up doors to endless opportunities, big ones at that.

ARTICLES AND VIDEOS OVER OBESITY AND BEAUTY

In today’s world there are so many people worried about becoming obese or maybe being ugly. The way we define beauty today has changed rapidly over the years. In one of the videos over beauty it had a woman describing exactly this, giving examples of how this is affecting the world today especially on women. The reason why women think they are not beautiful is a big reason they go off and buy skin care products, acne medications, and other such things that help a women feel a little more comfortable with herself. It is also affecting men now these days the models as she says are something like the perfect picture the ideal man or women and many people strive so hard to be like this image that they end up doing whatever it takes to become exactly it. One of the other videos shows a young girl starring at you and then all of a sudden it goes into many pictures of models and make-ups and what caught my attention is what it says at the end of this video "talk to your daughters before the modeling industry does". So even at a young age we are affect by this perfect image they are messing with are why of thinking, what beauty really is. They edit these pictures on computers to make the model seem more gorgeous than she really is. This is an argument that was being brought up throughout all these videos and a big one that many countries are facing. Another thing is obesity the U.S. as I found out is one of the biggest. The article was over obesity in Brazil how it is catching up with them, you can no longer see many men or women at the beaches do to the cause of obesity overwhelming the country. Studies showed that this is true and that many Brazilians are getting many surgeries done just to get that beach bikini body. Over all to me obesity and beauty is in the eye of the beholder and what I mean by that is if your view of beauty is that model your wrong you’re fooled. Believe only what you believe is beauty and then you become the eye of the beholder and see that beauty and obesity are just things that are unique and different we are all special in our own ways and this is something I truly believe.

ARTICLE REVIEW

In class we were given four articles to read dealing with Facebook. In each article it basically was saying to be careful of what you leak out on the web about yourself. They gave examples especially if you are looking for a job. They said that employers are looked up and can be searched on the internet through such websites like Facebook. It also said that even a picture might not just give you that job you wanted. It could be a picture from you partying, maybe it having to deal with alcohol. Pictures such as this well not get you the job, the articles also had sections where they were going against this. They said the way someone presents themselves on the internet should not be compared to the way they work and it should not keep them from getting a job. I agree with this part because the way I act at a job is entirely different from the way I act on a daily bases. If you can learn how to balance out the two then you should get the job. In the articles it also said that schools were not accepting students as well, if they had pictures or information that was unexcitable. Now this really gets to me because if a student has a good grade point average and meets the requirements he should not have to be declined from attending a college or university. I can be honest and say some of my website pictures might be unexcitable, but it should not have to hold be back from getting a degree in what I'm majoring in. The articles really gave me a lot of information I did not know such as that companies or job placement could look you up on the internet. I plan on reading the articles that will be coming up because I learn something new each time and that is always helpful. Reading is a good thing you always gain a lot of knowledge from it. I can really say college English is very beneficial English is part of our daily life, the articles we read in class have mostly pertained to the internet and school life. Jobs, school, and the internet are all three different things they should not have to be compared. It’s true you need a good education to get the high paying job but the internet you’re Facebook and Myspace should not hold you back from that. Just the internet in general, I believe it should not affect you in any way whether its pictures or information, if you have the grades and the knowledge that’s all that should be looked at.

PANDORA AND LAST/FM

In class we we're introduced to two websites on these websites you can listen to music. You can create your own account and add your favorite songs to it. Well, I'm going to start with Pandora, I like this site a lot because you can type what genre of music your looking for. Then out of the genre, up comes all the artists that are under that type of music. You can add your favorite artists and it gives you all of the songs they have produced. So you can pick and choose what songs you want and what artist as well. The best part about this site is you can share your music with your friends and they can share it with you. You can even add this website to your mobile phone so when you’re on the go. I like music a lot and I use it as a stress reliever, I'd recommend this website to you if you like music as well. That's what Pandora is basically about, now let me tell you about Last/Fm. Last/Fm is the same thing but, they add videos to your music so you get double the goodness out of it. You get your favorite songs and the video to them, you can share them with your friends as well. The only difference between the two is one gives you videos and the other does not. To me really, there the same music is good no matter if it has a video or not. We listen to music more than we see it. Over all if you love music and like to create your own play-list of music I'd say either one is fine. I never knew of these websites until this day so I plan on using them, especially when I'm on the go or when I’m studying. I like to listen to music so I can zone out every other noise and focus on my work. I really recommend both to you so see which one suit’s you better. Music is a big part of life it gives us a sense of happiness you can have the worst day in your life and out of no where up comes your favorite song. If I had a bad day I’d probably start to sing the words to my favorite song if I it came on the radio station.

REFLECTING OVER MY WRITING CENTER EXPERIENCE

Tutoring is always beneficial especially if you’re having trouble understanding a certain subject. The writing center is the place to go if you need help on understanding how to start a writing assignment that you’re having trouble on. Well, I went for help on my descriptive essay assignment the other day. The tutor helped me find out a new way to setting up my writing process. I read my essay draft to him and he took notes on the side. After I was done reading he read his notes to me, they were over parts of my essay that I needed to work on. Things that I needed to work on were my tense, my pronoun shifting, and adding more description to some portions of my essay. He also helped me create a thesis statement and topic sentences for each and every one of my paragraphs. He gave me advice on writing essays for future reference; he gave me the reason for each topic sentence and told me the reason behind the thesis statement. The thesis statement purpose is to inform your reader what you are going to be writing over. It should say exactly what you’re writing about for any essay or writing assignment as he said. I like going to the writing center because every time I leave I leave with something new in mind. I also like the fact that they take consideration on how you want your paper to be written. They ask questions like where are you on the assignment, what do you need help on, how would you start this paragraph, and from these questions they build off on it with you. That to me is the best part about the writing center they really know how to handle your situation. I wish I had something to complain about or wish something was done differently but there’s nothing that comes to my mind. The tutoring I got helped me and I’m glad for that, so nothing needed to have changed or needed to be different. Tutoring is going to be a big part throughout my college life so I plan to get it as much as I can.

COMMENTING ON BLOG'S

It is always a good thing to give a person a comment whether it is good or bad. It help's the person see what they did wrong, it also informs them that they've done a great job. In class we made comments on each other's blog's that we have been writing since the second day that school started. I enjoyed commenting on others blog's I like to help people out a lot and giving someone a comment makes them feel good. I'm all for that so I would not mind making more comments on other classmates work. I got comments as well not as much as I wanted but you can't have it all. The comments are helping at times you get comments that are agreeing with you or you'll get the jerk that leaves a totally mean comment. I plan on giving people comments throughout my life whether it’s on paper or spoken through words. Teacher's always give students comments when they get there work back to help them improve, so comments are a good thing most of the time. It was an experience in class commenting my friend's blog's, so if you’re reading this make a comment on this paragraph about commenting.

TIMELINE FOR A DISCRIPTIVE ESSAY

Timelines usually always help you see what happens in order, say for example, like in history dates from 1800-1900. You see what happens from beginning to end; this is always a good thing it's like how writing needs a writing process. It's the foundation of what you feed off of to write about, timelines are just like that you see what happens in order so that you can get the story out of it. Well in this descriptive essay assignment that we were given we created timelines for our story's. Creating this timeline helped me out a lot because I was having a hard time starting off my descriptive essay. It gave me the big picture to my story I got the beginning, middle, and end out of it. I even got the in-between to my story and I don't think I could have done this without the creation of this timeline. It helped me visualize where I wanted my reader to start and where I wanted them to end up at. A descriptive writing as I'm told is exactly that, a story giving your reader a picture of what you see, feel, taste, hear, and smell. This process is sort of a hard one to catch on to, but thanks to the timeline I saw for myself what I wanted my reader to see. I don't think anything else would have helped, well there might be one thing my own personal tutor, now that would have been great but unfortunately I don't have one. Each thing I've learned as I said before has helped me in some way that I know is always going to stick in my mind. As my blog title says "YEA BUDDY COLLEGE TIME" this is because in college you’re given the final keys to help you with life. In a way I'm really writing my timeline to you on my college life. So clearly timelines are a very import fact in trying to describe anything, it's the story from beginning to the end. The descriptive essay is over a vlog a video blog. The timeline that I made is me describing the video to you from once I clicked play to the time the video was over and done with.