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CELEBRITIES VS PAPARAZZI By Em ily

http://commtechem.blogspot.ca/2014/11/celebrities-vs-paparazzi.html#comment-form

Blog Post #5: Communication Gone Wild by Nicole

http://nicolefdes.blogspot.ca/2015/06/blog-post-5-communication-gone-wild.html?showComment=1433416079249#c5448111486149807489

Blog Post #4: Can a Truck Make You More Handsome? By Nicole

http://nicolefdes.blogspot.ca/2015/06/blog-post-4-can-truck-make-you-more.html?showComment=1433416470129#c6489933293137852082

How Could Parents Do Such A Thing? By Sherri 
http://comunicatingthroughblogging.blogspot.ca/2015/04/how-could-parents-do-such-thing.html?showComment=1433416864755#c6011897191831507282

People Are Just Too Sensitive By Rosemarie
http://computerrose.blogspot.ca/2015/03/people-are-just-too-sensitive.html#comment-form

Blog Post #1- 2014 By Sherri
http://comunicatingthroughblogging.blogspot.ca/2014/11/blog-post-1-2014.html?showComment=1433417555478#c2240249127784307186

Selfish

Selfie sticks are just like any other toy. Would you bring it into work? No, not really.
I'm against selfie sticks being banned in whole area, like South Korea. Selfie sticks do have their own use and although often they seem like a joke, they can be super functional. Selfie sticks are great for talking pictures with a bunch of people in it. It has a purpose, a market and it should exist. When people use selfie sticks, the use it with a purpose- to get a bigger landscape in photos.

I can also get how some people want to ban selfie sticks. In South Korea, they ban selfie sticks as a health issue which I'm not going to get into because  there's many other aspects to consider. However, waving selfie sticks around can be a danger and many people think that selfie sticks are weapons. Many security companies are now telling their employees to search for selfie sticks, although I think that other things can easily become weapons as well.

Selfie sticks started out as a joke and then turned out to be really function. Because of this, people still see selfie sticks as a joke. If we want selfie sticks to stay as a handy accessory, we need to treat it correspondingly. In China, many people use selfie sticks and it's a popular trend. Because of this, selfie sticks don't seem like a joke there- it's treated as an everyday common thing and people get the positive effect of it. As long as we don't get in the way of each other, I think it's fine to have a selfie stick.

I think it does matter in the end how we respond to the selfie stick. Are we going to use it as an accessory for taking photos and treat it like it's an official accessory? Or are we going to treat it as a joke and allowing others to deem it as a weapon?

AI or A-why?

A lot of people criticize people my age for always saying that we are on our phones and never away from the internet. They call us digital citizens since we grew up with technology all around us. They criticize us for being the leading movement for AI and spurring forward robots that could one day take over the world. But I like to look at it differently.

It probably was the same when books were published and when books could also be read by females. They probably were scared that books would cause revolutions and thoughts that weren't "right" at the time. And books did just that- the main reason for the women's movement was that they were inspired by works of literature by other female authors. But we can't say that the women's movement was a bad one, heck it's still happening and women are still fighting for equality. It's because book gave us the idea, and it is our choice to follow it.

If AI is the next level after books and technology, then I believe this will allow us to access more information- we are the ones that choose what happens to the information after.

Back in the day, they probably also told girls to stop embroidering so much and to other things, like make candles while talking to other people. The same was when books came along. Now it's with phones. I don't think the increase in AI will really change the way we communicate.  If anything, it's expanding the world that we live in and increases communication around the world.

In the end, we are still going to communicate, because AI hasn't increased to the point where it can procreate. So next time someone tells me to put down my phone and talk to people, I'm gonna look them dead in their eyes and tell them that their parents probably told them the same thing.

Your Car Doesn't Make You

I hate commercials. But I have yet to hate a commercial as much as I hated the Chevy Colorado ad.
Yet again, media is able to make people feel insecure about another part of their life. People normally aren't too insecure about their cars- or their homes. Because it's so expensive and leases last a while, it's hard to get insecure about something like this. Even if you do feel insecure about your house are your car, it's hard to change your car or house so in the end, they aren't marketed to make you feel insecure and to buy the product.

It's amazing. It's amazing how they can make you feel insecure about your car- probably something you can't even change at the moment! There's tons of other car commercials that boasts it's great features and even adds humor to the mix, but of course the innovative idea is to ridicule other cars and to give off a vibe of not being a true man without a truck. Take the BMW ConnectedDrive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he-H9-xaErw

It pokes honest fun at what the car can do and also shows off what it can do- a way better ad than Chevy's. Nobody feels insecure. It's honest fun. It doesn't ma
ke you feel any less that a man, it doesn't give off the vibe that you aren't a man without a truck. Plus the Chevy commercial gives off vibes to men that most or all women like trucks. I know I wouldn't really prefer a car, a van or a truck. I'd actually prefer a car because I don't need any heavy lifting and transporting in my life either.

I do think that being truly offended by the Chevy commercial is a bit of a stretch, but it is offensive up to a certain point and I hope that cars don't also join the army of products that make you feel insecure.

@Twitter

Twitter is an amazing concept. I've experienced it firsthand since I have my own twitter account as do many of my friends. Previously, other social media accounts don't have the same charm or aspect as Twitter. With Facebook, posts aren't as often and so each post is more important and hold more weight in them. However, twitter goes by so quickly. It's simple and easy to use and since everything goes so quickly, people feel as if their words don't hold as much weight. But if you isolate each post on it's own, the words seem to be a lot deeper than what it was written with.

Twitter's a lot more anonymous than Facebook. Just in general, social media sites are getting more and more anonymous. Twitter only needed an email and a password. In Facebook, many people need to have an actual name, filled in biography, sometimes multiple emails, where they work and more. Twitter became a platform
that more celebrities used because it was easier to keep private things private and only sow one side. Because of this fact, it also gets a lot easier to create multiple accounts- heck on the twitter app you can switch between different accounts with ease and without logging out! This makes people often have multiple accounts for different purposes, rather than a Facebook. A lot of the people I know have anonymous fan account where they express their love for a band more openly, but also another account for posts and tweets that don't pertain to their band. Just as easy it is to maintain a fan twitter account it is to maintain a hate account.

Even if you slip up once or twice and expose private information in your life on twitter, it is easily covered by other tweets. In Facebook, you can just to go their biography page and see what you can see right there.

Regarding anonymous (or even not anonymous) hate, I don't think it's going anywhere. I don't even think it's a super big problem, because people are still expressing feeling that do exist, it's just that they are able to express it more openly whereas before it would be more buried down. If the media deals with it properly and treats hate posts on twitter like actual feelings rather than just mean comments, people will realize the weight of their words more than brushing off mean comments like they do on Jimmy Fallon. The way celebrities deal with hate comments on Jimmy Fallon, to me, only spurs on the hate, because we can see with our two eyes that it doesn't impact them, so we can continue.

Put it up? Or nah?

There's a fine line on what should be put on the internet and what should not be put up on the internet. When parents post things like shooting a laptop to punish the kids, in all honesty, it's embarrassing for the parent. We don't know what the kids did wrong most of the time for viral videos. When videos like they make their way around online, it's shameful for the parents in these type of video because it makes me think that this is their form of punishment. Shooting a laptop won't make the problem of staying online go away. The daughter will still find ways to go online or waste time. She isn't learning a lesson. When the video is posted, it also gives me a feeling that the parents are looking for attention and approve, like a thumbs up for doing that.

Screaming and yelling is a result of being caught up in the heat, rarely does yelling at each other actually solve problems, it only creates bigger problems. When parents post videos of them shouting at a 11 year old for having a Facebook account, it's shameful. Is this how you teach you kids a lesson? By yelling at them and not letting them know exactly what they have done wrong? Plus, yelling is one of those actions we do when we want to go full out mad. In videos like this, I get an impression that an adult needs to go full out on a kids, their kids, which will listen to them if told a suitable reason.

I think the reason why these videos still make it's way online is because of the gems like the picture of the kid with an old man's haircut. Those are innovative ways to punish kids to make sure they learn their lesson, but doing it in a way that makes the reason obvious. For something like this, I can laugh without guilt- I don't have to worry about the kid after because there's clearly love in the actions.

A rule we can follow when posting things like this online should be "are we uploading this because nobody gets hurt but it's funny?"