Category: Student Work

A Week Without Google/Instagram

I’d like to start off with the fact that I knew this wasn’t going to work out for me. I really depend on Google on a day to day basis. If I don’t know the answer to a question, Google. If I want to see a restaurant’s hours, Google. Literally anything you can think of, …

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No Social Media

Well to start things off I want to say this challenge was not easy and I did not pass the challenge. This challenge became very difficult as time went by because to go from something you do everyday to suddenly just stopping, was the hard part. People use social media for many things besides posting …

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Public Sphere, Linked Info & Good Riddance Google/Facebook Experiment

Reading Reflection: In relation to Network Theory, the web in an incredibly rich source of networks, information, user-generated data and much more. According to Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the “World Wide Web”, the web is immensely significant when it comes to the creating connections and relationships between sets of data known as “linked data”. …

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week without using Google and Facebook Products

So my week going without google or Facebook products went horrible I failed the first day Just due to the fact that I use it every day well mainly google and Instagram. The reason for me breaking so quickly is because whenever I use a different search engine its always inaccurate to what im specifically …

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Networks

How are Networks and Network Theory changing the way we organize and categorize information? From an early adolescent age, toddlers categorize things into groups to better understand the world around them. People are connected to each other through many different socially connected networks. The term, “it’s a small world”, gives an insight to how we …

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No Google

In this challenge, I somehow survived. I successfully did not use Google and Facebook products. At first, I struggled because I usually checked my email, but I told myself not to. Now, I accumulated more than 165 emails. I’m surprised I did not check them at all because everytime that I see that 165 emails, …

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No Social Media

When the professor at the end of class said to try to go a week basically without social media, I said I will able to make it at the end of the week. My first instinct was to delete all those apps I’m frequently on, Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok, and Youtube. I kept Google maps …

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How and Why I Horribly Failed ‘The Challenge’

Okay, so no Google. No Facebook. No Instagram. No Twitter. No TikTok. No form of social media for a week. That was the challenge that I graciously accepted and horribly failed. Not because I didn’t try but because it was nearly impossible to do in this day and age.  Now hear me out- I’m not …

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Success or Failure

So during the week I was tasked with not using google, Facebook, and other social media sites. The thing that happened is the majority of what the professor asked for I did because I am not a Facebook user To be honest my Facebook is full of degenerates so I don’t go on there, Instagram …

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Internet and Instagram

The Internet and the technological devices of today have made me able to retain information because mostly all of the information is online. It is an easy accessible way to gain information on any subject matter that an individual may need at that moment. It was interesting to see how Tim Berners-Lee explained his thought …

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