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Author Archives: lillie.clarke
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Comments: 3
All that glitters ain’t gold!
http://www.oyster.com/hotels/photo-fakeouts/
According to Erving Goffman, and referencing his theatrical performance model- sometimes the “stage presents things that are real and sometimes not well rehearsed.” For example: If you were to be observing someone in their environment, it would be smart to look for things they do or do not do, such as the expressions on their face when they know they’re being observed. People wear masks almost always when they know this is taking place.
Apparently Goffman’s theory can be related to alot more than just a person’s body language or immediate behavior. What about a place/setting being staged to entice prospective customers.
How many times have you gone online to check hotels out, then cringe at the absurd pricing? Feeling like you are missing out on the time of your life because you see the roomy, ocean view, ‘OCD type’clean bedrooms, state of the art gym (well equipped), and beautiful clean pools with ironically hardly anyone in them. Not to mention the hotel’s state of the art spa, where someone named Helga or Rafael will be giving you special treatments.
Then you pay luxurious pricing for mediocre service…feeling like you just got PUNK’d!! -_-
Reality v. Staged
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Facebook Stalking=Socially Acceptable
http://www.teenvogue.com/connect/blogs/soundoff/2011/02/facebook-stalking.html
Stalking is normally shunned in our society. The law prohibits these actions by allowing ‘victims’ to file restraining orders,etc. So why is it that something that is socially unacceptable and illegal is the complete opposite..a norm..online!!!
What is the difference between trying to find out more a lot how a person looks..who they hang out with (Do you have mutual friends?)..where they work..God forbid you continue to find them intriguing..Guess what? You are stalking them!!!
If you were to behave this way in reality, outside of the internet..some might call you a CREEP or peeping tom, and it wouldn’t be followed by a “lol…:)”
According to urbandictionary.com, a facebook stalker (yes they actually coined that term) is :”An individual who secretly looks up people on facebook, going through albums, comments and personal information to piece together a picture of this person. Potentially developing into an obsession.”
However, in the article I was reading in Teen Vogue, entitled, Cyberspy: Are you a Facebook Stalker? “Experts say you shouldn’t feel strange about regularly checking out someone’s page- as long as your intentions are healthy.” But what is healthy? It is also said too much of anything is a bad…being excessive can never lead to anything positive. I believe if you wouldn’t do it in real life, don’t do it through the internet.
R.I.P Social Media?..Yea Right!
http://technorati.com/blogging/article/has-social-media-had-its-hey/
Social Media has not had its hey day!!! Not only can you speak to relatives and friends far away, but you are able to Skype them into your living room. So Social media hey day is heating up ;)!! The potential of and the demand for these social networking sites remains infinite.
Social media has its positive and negative attributes like anything else. Its major drawbacks stems from easy access to the world wide web and people’s personal information. The fact that you can chat, make friends, play games with others from around the globe is not only amazing, but magical. The drawback here is bad,mean people are also online. Sometimes, there is no telling who is who. You go on, and just hope for the best!
However,when social media is correctly used, it affords us a broad and varied spectrum of services such as online teaching and learning, shopping,and movies/theater. Nowadays, you really don’t have to leave your home to accomplish many of your daily tasks. With the flick of a button, you have arrived at your destination through a link or intended site.
I think this article sums up how beneficial social media can be when the author states,…”you need to have a strategy in place that takes into account your strengths. Additionally it needs to have specific targets and goals, all driven by a tactical, yet strategical, plan. You need to have a way of measuring your social media marketing results and a means of fine-tuning them”. Because networking is key to a successful path in this day and age and social media is the medium that bridges that flow of data.
Self Esteem v. NewsFeed
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/business/10ping.html?scp=7&sq=social%20media&st=cse
Your Facebook wall can truly make you feel like a wall flower especially when you are sitting at home, minding your business, just trying to keep up with your everyday chores and assignments then all of a sudden…an URGE or desire hits you..the need to see what exciting venture your friends, ‘frienimies’ (friend+enemies) and family are completing without you.
The need becomes all consuming, and before you see it for what it really is, you have tuned into the web. There are your friends!… all having a great time…they say a picture is worth a 1,000 words, and these are speaking for themselves. FUN!!!!
Yet here you are, missing out on what you might be thinking is one of the greatest moments of your life. To make matters worse,you’re notified and a text rings through, again you are invited in as an observer to the many pleasures and scents of the moment.What do you do? Mostly, all you can do is post a response on your friend’s wall as you remain a virtual wall flower.
According to the article, “Feel Like a Wallflower? Maybe It’s Your Facebook Wall”, Behavioral Psychologist, having studied the behavior of the techno geeks found their actions to be addictive in some instances, while Professor Ariely said, …”You can imagine how things could have been different, and that really motivates us to behave in strange ways.”
I can surely relate to feeling like a “virtual wallflower” several times on Facebook. It seems like a competition sometimes whoever updates their profile picture in a new “exciting” place is cool and has such an interesting life, so dare I argue my face hasn’t changed that drastically from last week til present day..I am a loser!!! Woe is me. -_-
Vote for Me..I’m on Facebook?!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/us/politics/20social.html?_r=2
Here’s an open invitation with a twist!!
Everyone is invited to a town hall meeting with President Obama and Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook.This town hall style meeting will be held at the Facebook headquarters, and focus is on the Economy. Since Tuesday afternoon, more than 22,000 of the chief’s 19.3 million followers had responded to the call by signing up. If we remember, during the last election President Obama was able to galvanize supporters to action by utilizing the current social media tools available, and quite effectively so. Tools like Twitter, Facebook,Apps. Testing, Youtube etc. leaving his Republican counterparts in the dust.
However, for the upcoming 2012 elections the Republicans have all geared up, and are better prepared this time around for the online battle. The driving force for this swift progression into the technological age by the Republicans was recognized by them to be one of expedience. Now more than ever,with voter empowerment on an all time high, is there any wonder both groups are sustaining, maintaining, and upgrading their use of these social media tools available to them?
I personally don’t blame Republicans for trying to join the social media bandwagon. People feel like they have a better understanding or deeper connection with celebrities through this medium, so it could definitely work in favor of a politician.
Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and specially designed applications..watch out and prepare yourself for a news feed full of slogans to court and coax prospective voters for the 2012 elections!!!
