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Virtual Crap
Someone mentioned the idea that Myspace will soon faze out and people will migrate to the next "thing", sparked many thoughts in my mind. I totally agree with that because I have moved on from Myspace for reasons discussed in class today. It started out with simple advertisement every time I have log in. Then it morphed into a page full of advertisement which then bled onto my profile page. Soon somehow people were hacking my friend's page so that they can spam my page about pills that would enlarge my penis...which reminds me of this:
3 comments:
Hung-The-Pham,
I really enjoyed your post. I thought that the Dave Chappelle clip was cleverly intertwined in your blog, it illustrated the argument of your writing nicely.
I have always been skeptical of the the large opportunities that the internet provides. While I do think that the internet has opened many positive doors for our world ( I am a huge fan of the knowledge-at-my-fingertips feature that the web provides), I agree that it is a huge space that can be filled with lurking danger. Remember "cybering" over instant messaging?? I remember when I was 13 and a 40-year old man asked if I wanted to have "cyber sex". I was so disgusted but I never reported him or told my parents because I was too afraid of getting in trouble for talking with strangers. I think this is why I like the show To Catch a Predator so much so I was excited that you brought that show up in your post. Some people might argue that that situation occurred due to lack of parental control, but with all of the pop-up advertisements and flooding of spam mail, people can be put in to dangerous or inappropriate situations with out ever entering a chat room; I really like your line, "I found MySpace to not be my space but rather their space to bombard me with virtual crap". One time I was doing a science report on farm animals so I typed "farm animals" into the search engine and within the first five websites that the engine produced was a porn site featuring farm animals...like really Google?? I do not know squat about computers but isn't there a better filtering system? I guess not if the price is right...
I also agree that it is hard to consider blogging homework. I was a little skeptical of this format at first, but now I am beginning to enjoy it. There is just something so daunting about having to write a paper in Word Document, I find that that program stifles my creativity.
Good work,
Kelly Krause
Kelly’s response to your post is excellent. She picks up on the very points that interested me as well. I, too, think your sentence about how “MySpace” became everything but “your” space is really smart; I wanted you to take this a step further and analyze the title more carefully. How has a network that exists for displaying one’s identity actually become a medium for something else? I also want you to deal more directly with your title “virtual crap.” In what ways are you using the term “virtual”? Do you mean to suggest that the Internet is almost crap? Be careful with your use of these keywords, which is to say, make it clear to the reader what you mean by “virtual.” Finally, I am interested to read about the process of writing in a blog medium. In some ways, it may be easier to compose certain ideas in a small box instead of a Word document, as Kelly suggests, and in others, organization becomes a challenge. Perhaps on the Internet, we are trained to think broadly instead of deeply and our thoughts become a bit more scattered than if we sit down and compose a paper in Word. On that note, I challenge you to keep your posts organized and focused.
This... is deep... I like.
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