Week 2- Tutorial Task & Response to content! (Wouldn't let me post it otherwise)

Tutorial task:

Part 1: B)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SgABnY4occ&feature=related
I chose these two video clips because they show some of the effects social media has on communications. Even though it may be a little exaggerated (or is it?), these two Family Guy clips shows how poorly many people communicate through social networking. Facebook has almost become some sort of a Mecca for poor communicating. I'm not saying that everyone on Facebook can't communicate but there are a lot of unnecessary spelling mistakes. Like for example my friend, who lives in the UK, recently posted; "I mis yu ;)" on his Facebook. Okay, I understand that he misses someone but what is with the Wink? This is the exact same scenario as in the second clip. Is he trying to insinuate that he is not missing someone? Does he miss someone but don’t want anyone to know who it is? I'm perfectly okay with not knowing who he misses but when he includes the wink he is sort of begging for people to ask; ''Who is this person that you miss?''. If he don't want people to know he shouldn't have posted anything at all. I won't even get started on his lazy spelling errors.

Smartass?

My point is that people tend to write and act in a totally inappropriate way, which to me can resemble acts of neediness, when they use Facebook and other social media. I wouldn't be surprised if the school system would start a Facebook/Social Media writing- and understandings-class in the future. There is a lot of miscommunication out there that needs to be fixed. Both expressions and grammar! 

The following is some examples of people communicating poorly through Facebook:

http://www.holytaco.com/25-most-embarrassing-facebook-updates/

C)
I used www.stumbleupon.com which is not much of a academic site as it is more of site to kill time. You check down your interest out of over a 100 selections and then you press stumble and (usually) websites that contains some of your interest pops up.


Part 2:

I have used Social Media (New communication technologies) since MSN Messenger came in the early 2000's. Since that time I have used everything from Myspace to nettby.no (Norwegian site). Now I only use two types of social media; Facebook and Skype. I use those for one sole reason which is to communicate with friends and family. When I was younger I remember adding people, that I had only seen but never spoken to, on MSN. Usually it was girls that I found attractive at the time. Hey, I was 13 and in puberty! Later on that got old and I calmed down a bit and since then I have pretty much only used new communication technologies to speak with people I knew from before. Though some of those are people I met on MSN for the first time a long long time ago...


Response to content



The history of communication.


Communications has evolved drastically since the invention of the cellular phone in 1973.
Smart phones and social media are the cell phones successors.
In 1981 Sony released their very popular Walkman portable cassette player which now is looked on as an antic when it comes to technologies. Cell phones and internet is now the largest distributor of music. People either have everything saved on a memory stick or just listen to the music online (youtube). They way things have evolved for the last 20 years what will the next way to communicate? 



Some sources states that 3D-images is the first to blossom, making your "virtual presence" a real possibility. link1
While HCITF predicts that: "...whatever new technologies develop, it seems likely that they will be text based and

that traditional phone communication will fall to a still-present-but-lesser-used state..." link2

All we know for sure is that something new will soon come, but what that will be? We'll just have to wait and see.

Links used: 

http://hcitf.net/?page_id=20

http://www.futureforall.org/communication/future_of_communication.htm