Posts not showing up...so here are my comments.

Ashley Casiano:

            I enjoyed reading this post, and I agreed with you as well. You wrote, “If people have no boundaries, and anyone can connect to anyone problems are bound to occur.” I too wrote a section of my post about this very topic.

            I wrote that social networking sites can provide a constant reassurance that you are listened to, recognized, and important. Instead the face-to-face, real life conversation, which is far more unpredictable and stressful than the computer mediated conversation, happens in real time; there is no opportunity to think up witty responses, a real conversation exposes your tone of voice, your body language, and probably even your emitted pheromones. (Which are molecules that transmit mainly sexual and social messages that others perceive unconsciously.) Could you imagine how awkward our world would be if every conversation we ever had online was held face to face?

            I enjoyed your take on this question.  You had said that people don’t realize almost thirty five percent of arguments online are because of misinterpretations. Because of the fact that people are not able to hear how the person may be saying something, or because they do not know if certain things are meant to be jokes many problems arise from this.  Some problems may occur because of a conflict of interests.  If someone sees something on someone else’s facebook or twitter that they do not agree with, for example, religious beliefs or even statuses, people may say things may then lead to an argument. When people post things such as an inside joke or things with significant special meanings on social networking sites other “outsiders” could definitely take it to mean something incredibly offensive. 

Janae Myers:

I agreed with your comment about how there are people who are disgraced by the way technology can be used and the impacts it has on people, while others are astonished at how it benefits society.  Those who think it is hurting our generation are not taking into account what we are gaining. They are focusing solely on the negative aspects of the change rather than the innovative tools we are gaining. 

 Megan Walsh:

Just as I had mentioned on Janae’s post, those people who think social networking is hurting our generation are not taking into account what we are gaining from the experience. They are focusing solely on the negative aspects of the change rather than the innovative tools we are gaining. Just because we do not sit and read a novel a day does not mean we are not competent, intelligent, hard working, success driven people. We just act, think, work, and thrive in new and different ways.

Brendan Cuddihy:

When I think about bullying I think of the big kid in the class sitting in the back, spitting spit balls at a small kid in the front. I like that you brought up the topic of cyber bullying. This opens a whole new era of bullying that previous generations did not even have to consider. I also touched on this topic in my paper. I talked about the Rutgers incident and how these types of events are spinning out of control. 

Stephanie Robinett     http://stephrobinett.blogspot.com/2010/10/digital-nation-final-paper.html