Blog #6

I believe that we have lost some of our privacy.  Their are ads that pop up on your facebook page, about things that you looked up when you weren't even logged into it.  We do have privacy mostly in our lives, because we don't have cameras watching our every move.  I'm sitting in my room right now and I don't think that there is a camera watching me, atleast I hope nobody is watching me haha.  So, we have some privacy, but when we are on the internet we really don't have that much privacy.  What we look up on the internet is kind of tracked.  So, online we don't have that much privacy I don't think.  I think that some people are willing to give up basic freedoms to feel safer.  These days, I believe, people are always watching out for anything bad that can happen, so they would be willing to give up some basic freedoms to ensure their safety.

Blog #5- My Feed Advertisements

The first ad that would be on my feed has to be ESPN.  I watch ESPN everyday because I am a huge sports fan, and I want to keep updated on what's going on with my teams.  I can't remember the last time that didn't turn on ESPN atleast once during the day.  SportsCenter is my favorite show on ESPN and I have to watch it everyday.  So, ESPN would be the first advertisement on my feed.



The second ad that would be on my feed would have to be about PlayStation 3.  I usually play video games for about an hour or two a day.  The ad would tell me about new games that are coming out that I would like.  So I play PlayStation a good amount so ads about new games would be on my feed.


The third ad on my feed would be about Adidas clothes.  A lot of my shirts are Adidas and I only wear Adidas shoes.  I have a lot of Adidas clothes, so this ad would tell me about new clothes to buy.  I don't know why but I don't wear any Nike things.  If there was the same thing made by Adidas and Nike I would buy the Adidas one, because Adidas is my brand.


The last ad on my feed would be about iTunes.  I like to listen to music so this ad would tell me about new music that I would like and should buy.  I just recently started to use iTunes and legally get music haha.  So iTunes would be an ad on my feed.

Blog #4

Could I live in a secluded house in the woods by myself for a year?  I would have to say I probably couldn't.  It would be really lonely to be in the middle of nowhere for a year.  When I think about being secluded for a year, I can't help but thinking about the movie Castaway.  If I was all alone for a year I would probably start talking to rocks or something so I could just talk to something haha.  Other than being lonely, I wouldn't know what to do with my time.  The days would seem like they last forever.  I would have to learn how to live off the land and sort of build a new life there.  Honestly I don't think that I would be able to do it.  During Thoreau's time it probably would have been a little easier to be secluded for a year because there wasn't all this technology around.  Since there is all this technology around and we use it everyday, it would be really hard for, me atleast, to live secluded in the woods for a year.

Blog #3- "Dumbest Generation"

I guess according to this Mark Bauerlein guy, I'm part of the dumbest generation ever.  I think that this guy is kind of mad that when he was growing up he didn't have all this technology.  Yes I do agree that we use all of these devices a lot but I don't think that makes up dumb.  I would say that my generation is lazy instead of dumb.  I will agree that there are dumb people in my generation (like that Miss USA girl), but that can be said for every generation, there will always be dumb people around.  My generation focuses our smarts on different things then when Mark Bauerlein was young, so he thinks that makes us dumb?  We laugh at older people because they don't know how to use a lot of these new devices, but we don't go and call them the dumbest generation.  Like I said earlier a lot of people in my generation are lazy but that doesn't mean that they are dumb.  Bauerlein is calling people that go to college and are getting good grades, (like me), dumb that just doesn't make that much sense to me.