blog entry #3

The last
few weeks of the class have been most engaging for me. I have enjoyed the videos
as well as the reading. The reading that
stuck out to me the most was from week eleven. The readings from Tavani about community,
personal identity and self in cyber space were especially interesting.
I liked the
discussion particularly for this week, seeing how each person reacted to each other’s
comments on cyber space. The interesting
thing to me was how people are changing who they are on sites like Facebook. It is easy for people to hide behind a profile
on the computer. So easy in fact that people can be any age, race or sex. It is
so easy that we can post our opinions about anything; pretend we are anybody
else than who we really are. There is no way of knowing if the person who is
posting is who they really are. I have had friend request come in from the
person I know, only to have the real person call or text me the next day to say
it was not them and not to except it.
It goes on
to talk about blogger’s who conspire to take over countries or start wars. How people
are able to get others to conform to their opinions and ideas. This is not
always a great idea, the governments are watching for this type of action. This does make the people more prejudice to
the ideas they are already blogging about.
I feel this is important, as it is very important with everything going
on in today’s world.
Highlights of
the chapter that stuck out to me, the topics of cyber bullying, with having a
teenage daughter who is on the computer frequently for homework and Facebooking,
I wonder who maybe looking at her profile or even checking when she is on the
computer. Not being able to see the people who are always checking you profile
or speaking with you makes you wonder what type of person they are.
Online
gaming was another point brought up in the chapter. The online gaming craze is
in the boom phase. People all over the world are playing against each other all
the time. The problem with this is some people do not always know the difference
between gaming and reality. You get the high score over another player and you
never know how the player is going to react to the game or reality. Some people
do not always know the difference between reality and gaming.
I
especially liked this chapter due to how much this chapter affects every
persons daily life.