Blog #17

“Colleges Scan Facebook.” Students did surveys and preferred that other student should be careful of what they post about themselves on their profiles. Now college’s admissions such as NACAC look and search students before accepting them or giving them scholarships. Research shows that students live off a different social life in the online world than the outside world. In my opinion it’s a vaid of privacy then again it is not because people are ignorant to post pictures and say how they got drunk over the weekend. I can understand why school boards do this but then again why should our other life matter. “Jury out on Facebooks.” Contradicts feel that social networks have an affect on student’s grades today. It has been proven students that use facebook addicted have the lowest grades in class. Students checked their myspace more than what they check their email sent from instructors. Students who are addicted to these social websites are more than likely to get a bad grade. Networking is the new entertainment or should I say people rather go on myspace than watch television. “Facebook Sparks Suspicion.” Social networks and how couples find out how true their boyfriends/girlfriends are. It is simple they just look them up on websites and see how they interact differently around their partner. You can see pictures or read comment boxes and some relationships do not last long because of this. For example I saw pictures of my ex boyfriends profile I was in shock so it didn’t work out because the accusations were true and disturbing. Researchers find this as one of the main reasons why relationships do not last long. Social networking has a major impact on people’s lives. “Does Facebook Replace Time or Enhance it.” It is amazing how people find a partner in the virtual world. People can interact with others from faraway states or countries. You can swap pictures and messages other than wasting money on long distant calls. Many find this a better way to keep in contact with others socially. I think that these social networks do have an effect on people’s lives but it’s the way that some of us keep in touch. Not everyone owns a phone and we can’t always see someone that we like this is the best way of doing it. I think it does enhance time in many ways because before you would have to send out messages threw a telegram thing or send out a messenger boy but now that technology has grown gave us more ways to see things.

Blog #18

“Killing us softly 3” Is one of the videos our group (#2) had to present. It focuses on this woman talking about how advertising portrays women and men and the way they stereotypically look at them For example men are featured in ads being tall, muscular, active, and violent. Women are beautiful, skinny, and young. The woman that’s presented in this video says were not trying to change the ads but the way they do them and the attitudes that they give. “Dove Evolution” shows an average woman with no make-up and no fixed hair just a plain Jane. Then out nowhere you see people and how they transform her into someone beautiful they change everything of how she looked before. Afterwards her pictures that were taken of her are being photo shopped the photographer makes her shoulders and whole face slimmer and the way her face looked before looks nothing like what they put upon the billboard. “Dove Onslaught” is the third video that features a little girl in the beginning. Then in a flash you see all these types of ads and commercials of women. It shows some getting surgery, being on diet pills, and all these ways people want us women to look. At the end of the video it says talk to your daughter before dove does. In my opinion it makes clear sense. “Brazilian Obesity” In Brazil your use to seeing beautiful tanned women. The rate has gone up however in obesity and it is just continuing to grow more and more. Half of the adults in Brazil are obese. These types of body figures seem to cause anxiety. Malta was offended when someone wrote an article that said, “Brazilians were getting fatter” Malta became more offended when the media said she was a Brazilian-hating heretic. It’s not so much Brazil but obesity has become a worldwide phenomenon. Brazil now faces a sick and expensive future. “Health & Fitness; Snip, Suction, stretch and truss.” Cosmetic surgery has gone up in the past decades. Millions of Americans get surgery more than ever. Now people both women and men are worried about there presence the ages range from 30-40. Dermatologist say people only look older from the face due to sun exposure. Some people have nice bodies but always seem to find something wrong with their face. Instead of loosing weight the healthy way people rather get liposuction. It went from nose jobs to silicone and now liposuction. Who knows what’s next maybe the eyebrows.