What the hooooblahhh? Like if I hear having voice in writing one more time im gunna make sure the whole world hears my voice. i understand that in every time one writes they mut portray some kind of personality and appeal to their audience. Yeah sure, I get it. But I am having a very hard time having this so called voice for English, whatever shall i do? Who knows? I am afraid to put my sassy personality in writing because one it may scare people or maybe i will get an F for being overly sassy. So yeah I can't do that. In a way I thought it was easy to have voice because I read so many books that in my mind I felt like I had it down pact. Then I entered en 105 this blogging class and I realized the voice that I have is never good enough.
            Academic writing is not my forte, I feel coming into Skidmore professors expect all of us to be like theses authors writing so eloquently and pretention when I personally feel having this so called voice takes time. You develop your voice then you can perfect your story. I think for this last essay it is very hard because telling a story that you have to think back to a young age seems very boring. I do like that it is about myself but at the same time it makes it hard to apply personality to a paper that im not even sure if I can add my own flava to it. But we will see how this goes -_- (not interested)  

     On Facebook I always considered everything to be a story. Some stories more absurd than some and some actually interesting. I wished that people were more honest, not fully to the point where you tell your life story but saying something that is real. I consider myself untethered compared to many others. For example: I deactivated my Facebook for a month. This was one of the best things I have ever done. According to truckle she says "these young people live waiting for connection". I say forget a connection, connect to people who you really like and people who really like you. Facebook sickens me sometimes people with thousands of friends they have never seen or known. Suddenly having mutual friends mean your friends ummm definitely not. I just feel what happened to originality, is that somehow uncool now? In my opinion
    Everyone is an avatar. Identity issues I call it because shouldn’t we all be satisfied with ourselves and not try to create something that is not even us? Well I love myself (dust shoulders off)  for those who don’t love themselves; Facebook won't help you at all. I though me joining Facebook in 9th grade was for only college people now it's open access I wish it was a selfish site for only college people, but then again people would lie about being in college so nope that won't work either. ehhh lose lose situation. all this talk about social networks and all this hooblah is annoying because I see it as a simple thing. Note to everyone: separate yourself from social sites don’t become too consumed you only have only life to live, gosh relax take a chill pill.

Watching the matrix was deeper than what I thought it would be. I thought it would be just a typical silly movie about a fake world that had no relations to life. But it sure proved me wrong! The elements of the movie were the same as every book in the world. (don’t quote me on that) but it had a hero, the hero had an issue, the hero had to make a decision sometimes felt guilty if he/she did not become heroic etcetera etcetera the end the hero saves the day. And we all feel fulfilled by the end of the book/movie. Well sometimes I'm hard to pleaseJ.
             But I did like the matrix I was able to see a couple of truths to this movie. Neo wanted to find out what the matrix is and he had to go through obstacles to find out the codes. In life if you want to find out the truth you yearn for then you will just have to be heroic enough or "the one" to unlock whatever you want to find. No it will not be easy, but life is harder than a rock sorry to burs your bubble and fantasies that you may have about ponies L  but back to this unreal movie "the matrix"

                I mean I think the story is not feasible as far as the whole virtual world but then again this generation has controlled their lives through all sorts of social media that I wouldn’t be surprised if I found out tomorrow there was a virtual world called matrix  and people were trying to unlock some "codes" (silly). what I do think is kinda sorta feasible is how one can predict how they want to see things happen and how social sites can help some people live out their internal fantasies. Though this may not seem safe I guess this is feasible for some virtual people.

 

The social network was better than what I expected. It incorporated betrayal, friendship, politics, and other crap which if it was a book, would be way more interesting. I would like to say I would describe myself as the character of Eduardo. Very loyal and trying to help everyone even if that meant I was not being benefited. SCREW being Nice!!! But on a more nicer note Eduardo did venture off at one point and did his own thing in new York, kudos to him!. 
            Even though Mark (main character) did not see how big Facebook would become I could see by watching the movie that somehow his obsessive behavior would result in a broken friendship reaching its peak. (so young yet so obsessive). In books, there is always a smart bastard that messes up the best relationships they have then reap the consequences. Which how many friends mark had left?  (umm none) oh okay. I rest my case. J  why must people go off on a tangent and create a character on social sites , knowing they have identity issues that are picking at their guts. I mean it's not a crime to not know what life has in store for you; it's okay to be geeky and indulge in Greek myths or love to sit by the lake and reminisce about life (idc that’s cool in my eyes). Can someone tell me where the non-virtual bastards are? Because I find it hard to differentiate between whom is real and who is fake.
            I just felt very bad for mark; he created this wonderful yet dictated website due to him wanting to bash his ex-girlfriend that dumped him. CONSEQUENCE 101: he lost himself in the process. So basically he created a site in which people NEEDED to CONNECT. Why mark just why? Now people have become these online aliens that only can operate on the basis of a website. now I feel the need to conform. This is exactly why I can't go anywhere without my darn phone. sigh!!!!!! On that note: im on fb… bye J

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"The nostalgia of the young" ahhh sounds refreshing such an interesting phrase and a catchy title at that. I must say Turkle did this reading justice. I could relate to this reading. I'm sure all the nonfiction and fiction characters in the books I have read can agree with Turkle that the young has lost their identity. In all the books I have read all the characters somehow lost their identity maybe not to technology but had some kind of trouble finding who they were. They yearned for simplicity in life but found it hard. Now let's talk about this technological society which we live in. it's pure madness I tell you!!!.
            I wish that technology was not around sometimes because people have turned into computer nerd's geeks whatever you wanna call it that’s what they are. I am a social person and I cannot spend my life on the computer. Wait forget it I'm on the computer every day of my life. lol I swear computer and, texting is a bad habit that people refuse to break. When I am doing HW I find it hard to concentrate and where do I end up on freaking Facebook procrastinating. The darn social sites I can't stand it, if it was up to me I would read books all day all night get lost. I personally think we do not need technology sooo much as we think we do but will anyone ever try for one day to leave their phones alone I doubt it!!!!!. Heck is wrong with people, next thing you know we have robots teaching classes in 2012.
             I do think that we all lack something so we try to stay connected. Just like authors use writing as an outlet to stay connected with the world and to gain attention through story telling. today people find the need to stay connected as Turkle says and it is true but what are we staying connected to….(silence) nothing I don’t think. I think we are trying to find a wrong connection instead of connecting with ourselves first mentally.

So I read the Rosenberg reading and the title "putting everything out there" reminded me of every book I have ever read. Well the nonfiction ones that is. I just think that the people who have the best selling books are the ones that put themselves out there. They are the ones that people continually talk about because they kept it so real that people felt like they knew them even when in fact they live thousands of miles away. It takes a bold character to put themselves out there to the public and let themselves be ridiculed. Cause trust me that will definitely happen especially with this world we all live in. they wait for people to publicize their life and poke at every flaw.

personally for me i don't mind putting myself out their but i rather do it in a journal not too much on the public site, but then again who am i fooling im on face book that's public enough well then im a fraud i just lied who doesn't -_- fools!!!! but yeah i actually like the Rosenberg reading it wasn't boring like the introduction to blogs by Barlow gosh i don't even know what i really got out of that reading. Now this Rosenberg piece got down to the good stuff (roll eyes) i think i just became sarcastic lol but no really i read it without stopping which said it was worth reading. i think Justin hall is a real cynical character but who isn't on a social site. Everyone creates this character that is nothing like their real self. But hey at least Justin hall made a career out of himself.

i think every day of our lives we put ourselves out in the public just by interacting and telling stories that we actually think people care about when they really dont. that is why i turn to books because i know they care they dont say anything back and they dont judge lol but what i can say is books tell you more about yourself than you know and that is what i love about them , they give me self value something many people lack.

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i love to read just because i get to block out the world and be intimate with a book, no im not a creeper i just love my quiet time. one of the best books i have read was angels and demons by dan brown. i felt like i was literally inside the book and played one of the characters.  the book was basically about how a symoboligist  named robert langden went to italy and tried to figure out how a secret society killed cardinal officials in italy.
the secret society known as illuminati, is  a legendary secret society that tries to destroy Vatican City with the newly discovered power of antimatter.


the secret of illuminati always  interested me ever since i read this book in 2006, i wanted to go to italy and try to find out who were part of illuminati. then i realized i could get killed so yeah forget it! illuminati is supposedly going to control the world soon. it already controls the music industry and obama so i have heard but who knows it could just be just to get us gullible people to believe in something that we get all worked up for what, who knows? but anyways angels and deamons had me thinking that i should be a researcher for secret societies and write a journal about it and somehow i would be the one who saves people from this "secret society".

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maya angelou is the bomb!! not literally but you get my drift. my favorite book written by her is " i know why the cage birds sing" dont ask me why they just  couldn't sing lol.  i sat reading this book while on the toilet, not like i was using it but i was so glued to the book that the words turned into a human talking to me. This is how i know the books do have the magic to speak to me :)