Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Blog social networking

 Social medias have become more and more important within our society. Nowadays, at least half of the planet is using social medias to stay in touch with their friends and relatives, to connect with people across the world and share content. 

Social medias benefit to individuals and businesses as well. Indeed, people can share their pictures, thoughts or information with their friends. Similarly, businesses have a real interest to use social medias to promote their companies. Businesses can use social medias to reach a larger audience across the world and therefore increase their profit as more people will see what they offer and hence more people will buy. Social medias allow the users to create, connect and communicate with the world. According to the Youtube video, "Social media in plain English", ice cream and social medias have a lot in common.  Indeed,  people can share whatever they write, think or even create. Today everybody has a chance to make their own ice cream flavor and let the world discover it. 

Nevertheless, social medias are getting more inescapable to our society, and it gets harder to stay away from these new technologies. As recorded in the Youtube video "Cancelling AOL", the video sows how hard it is to cancel an account. This video made me realized that in a way we are all trapped in this social medias sphere. Similarly, everything that we share is controlled and stocked. Once it is online, it stays online. Social medias reflect an online world where people might feel safer because they are behind a screen and therefore dare to insult or even threaten people. Indeed, as we can connect with the entire world, the entire world can also connect with us. Hence, some people have been victims of harassment on their social medias. Moreover, we can be now tagged in people's photo. Therefore, we don't have the authority to decide wether or not we would like this picture to be posted. Finally, social medias have a real impact on people's health and behavior, as we spend a concerning amount of time using these technologies. 

Social medias allow people from across the world to connect. However, we become more and more dependent to these online and social platforms, sharing everyday an important part of our lives with strangers. With the progress of technology, who knows what new features these social medias will have. 




Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Blog v Wiki

 In today's world, everybody has the possibility to know everything thanks to internet and social medias. 

Everyone shares information throughout those platforms for different purposes. Similarly, blogs and wikis are used to share information but their type of content, organization and many other aspects can be different.

  Indeed, a blog is an online platform owned by someone. People who own blogs, write about anything they wish or what subject their blog is related to. They are more likely to personalized their blog to make it more attractive. Therefore, bloggers can grow an audience by building a connection between the readers and the blog itself because of the content and subject it shares. 

However, the wiki is the other way around. Wiki is a website made out of "text-based content that can be edited collectively", according to CIO.com. That is to say, everyone from the same group, company or class have access to the same article and can modify or edit it. Articles on Wiki are not private nor personal. 

Blogs and wikis have the same function which is sharing news and content. However, they both have different use. Indeed, according to UNSC Sydney,  blogs are made to "associate reflection and seeking external opinions". On the other hand, wikis are made to "brainstorm for a project and share knowledge based on a topic".


Sources

https://www.cio.com/article/2438542/blogs-and-wikis-in-the-business-world-definition-and-solutions.html

https://teaching.unsw.edu.au/assessment-blog-wiki-or-forum-which-should-you-use#:~:text=A%20blog%20post%20is%20usually,exchange%20of%20ideas%20and%20views.

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

A new way to interpret reality and fantasies ?

I chose for my project to talk about : Social medias : A new way to interpret reality and fantasies? I believe that social medias have taken over our society and everything is, one way or another related to it. I intend to analyze the impact of social medias on our daily lives and what it leads to. I will discuss how and why social medias have such an important influence on people's opinions and feelings. I would like to incorporate social medias users' statements and experiences to report the potentials dangers and the power that social medias have. Finally we will see what to expect from the constant growth and use of those social platforms.