- Yes, I have one social media for my friends only where I share my L’s.
- My twitter is more for my humorous side, my vsco is for my aesthetic self, and my Instagram is more for anyone to view.
- I interact with anyone who I know through social media a good amount of time.
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R.I.P young Caralyn’s twitter….
The place where I posted from my young photoshoots, to inspiring quotes, memes, awkward photos, and everything else wrong with my young self. Where my tweets didn’t even make sense or have any point in being posted…. rip. Where my sad, awkward middle school life really showed. If you’re looking for a good laugh go scroll through my old twitter, and watch me tweet about my crush. #whywon’thetalktome #selfie #jb4lyfe
From the TED talk, “What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness,” Robert Waldinger says that a recent survey shows that when asked what was the most important life goals, 80 percent responded by saying they wanted to get rich and another 50 percent of those young adults said they wanted to become famous. He goes on to say that were constantly being told to work harder and achieve more. That in order to have a good life we need things. He asks the audience what would happen if we could watch our whole lives unfold through time? What would happen if we study people from the time we were teenagers to the old ages to see what really kept us happy and even healthy? In fact, they did that. “Over the past 15 years, I’ve studied technologies of mobile communication and I’ve interviewed hundreds and hundreds of people, young and old, about their plugged in lives. And what I’ve found is that our little devices, those little devices in our pockets, are so psychologically powerful that they don’t only change what we do, they change who we are. Some of the things we do now with our devices are things that, only a few years ago, we would have found odd or disturbing, but they’ve quickly come to seem familiar,just how we do things.” When the teenagers entered the experiment they were all interviewed and given medical exams. He says that “They became factory workers and lawyers and bricklayers and doctors,one President of the United States.Some developed alcoholism. A few developed schizophrenia.Some climbed the social ladderfrom the bottom all the way to the very top,and some made that journey in the opposite direction.” He goes on to end his TED talk by saying that the people in the 75-year study were the happiest in their retirement. Where the people who had actively worked stopped. The people who fared the best were the ones who leaned into relationships with family, friends, and the community.
In the TED talk “Connected, but Alone,” Sherry Turkle states how in our society more people would rather spend time on their cellular device or social media than spend time with others. On the other hand she exclaims that technology Is amazing and continues to advance but has negative downsides. “Over the past 15 years, I’ve studied technologies of mobile communication and I’ve interviewed hundreds and hundreds of people, young and old, about their plugged in lives. And what I’ve found is that our little devices, those little devices in our pockets, are so psychologically powerful that they don’t only change what we do, they change who we are. Some of the things we do now with our devices are things that, only a few years ago, we would have found odd or disturbing, but they’ve quickly come to seem familiar,just how we do things.” She goes on to say that were evolving into a new way of being with others. That even when were with someone we tend to still be using our technology to connect somewhere else. That more and more times she hears people saying I’d rather text than talk. With that said more and more people are losing the basic skills of communication. We talk just pieces of information when texting someone rather than talking to someone trying to get to know them. With texting, emailing, and other sources of communication thought technology we can edit and delete what we say. That we use technology to deal with the problems of human relationships.
With these free writing activities I was able to remember key point ideas and memories that I would need in order to write my paper. In order to remember everything from earlier times I had to call my mom which helped me as well. The timeline was easier for me because it was specific things and events to recall. The web was more like motions and key words that associated with my mom while she taught me how to become literate. In the last picture I tried to think of ideas on how to set up my paper. All three of these activities gave me a clear mind on how to approach my paper to the best of my ability.
Caralyn
Hard-working, determined, thoughtful, studious
Lover of animals
Student of nursing
Who feels excited about taking this class
Who hopes to learn better writing skills and vocabulary in this class
Who fears doing poorly in this class
Who loved the story Where the wild things are
Who never read a series of books
Who struggled to get through no books
Who checks instagram everyday
Caralyn
