Because there are so many users on social media sites today, it's hard to say that you can keep anything from anyone. Even if you are not friends with a certain person, you may be friends with someone who is. Because of this situation, anything you post, hypothetically can be seen by, not only all of your friends, but all of the friends your friends decide to share it with. Even further, those friends can share it with all of their friends. On Facebook now, users have the option to "share" any post that one of their friends post. This is simply "reposting" what they just posted so that all of your friends can see it as well. This can cause some serious issues when people start posting hateful and judgmental posts about others. Things spread like wildfire on the internet and there's no stopping it. The only way to avoid it is to not post it.
Friday, March 14, 2014
Spreading Like Wildfire: Social Media Postings
Social media is often a place where users can freely express their feelings and thoughts. However, they don't often realize the whole extent to just how many people see their post. Often when I am on social media and about to post something, I think about who will see this post. When I think of this, I most often think of the people that I spend most time with like family and close friends. I do not often think of the other couple hundred people that I am friends with that will also see my post. I, along with many other people have this thought process when posting on social media. This is why we all need to be aware of, and watch what we post. What we say on social media can greatly affect someone even if we think it will never get back to them. In the long run, it always does! You can never hide anything on social media because of the large number of people that use it today.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
What You Know Vs. What They Know
This morning I woke up to do my usual routine (which is going to the gym at 6:30 a.m. to exercise.) After working out, I started my cold journey back. During my walk back to my dorm, I received a text from my roommate. In the text she said that she borrowed one of my storage buckets because water was pouring out from our ceiling. I was so confused by what she was saying, well, I guess I wasn't confused at what she was saying because I completely understood every single word she had said but I couldn't grasp quite what she meant. This lead me to wondering what really was going on back in our room. So, I quickly grouped all of my things together and ran back to my room. When I walked in, I found exactly what she had told me was happening. Water was pouring from our ceiling. I was in so much shock and couldn't understand why this was happening. I quickly moved all of my things so they wouldn't get damaged and went to get help.
This situation reminded me of one of the topics that we talked about it class that really stuck with me. We discussed the fact that if you don't thoroughly explain what you are talking about to someone, they may not get what you are saying, just as I didn't understand my roommate this morning. Something that we continually went back to that class period was the fact that when someone is reading your writing, you must keep in mind that they may not have had the same experiences or gone through the same circumstances as you. This means that it is very important that you always explain what you are trying to say and what points you are trying to get across; not only this, but you must also clarify any and all background information that your reader may not know.
Before the incident this morning, I did not clearly comprehend how someone wouldn't be able to understand what you are writing. I found that usually people DO "understand" what you are writing because they are familiar with English and can read, but I also found that just because they "understand" it, doesn't necessarily mean that they comprehend the context in which it was written. This situation could cause a lot of confusion as it did for me this morning when my roommate told me water was pouring from our ceiling. At first, I thought she had a type-o, until I walked right into the situation and found out really quickly that she didn't. The only problem with this, is that when we write, our readers cannot "walk right into the situation." It is our job to clearly lay out the situation in writing for our readers.
This situation reminded me of one of the topics that we talked about it class that really stuck with me. We discussed the fact that if you don't thoroughly explain what you are talking about to someone, they may not get what you are saying, just as I didn't understand my roommate this morning. Something that we continually went back to that class period was the fact that when someone is reading your writing, you must keep in mind that they may not have had the same experiences or gone through the same circumstances as you. This means that it is very important that you always explain what you are trying to say and what points you are trying to get across; not only this, but you must also clarify any and all background information that your reader may not know.
Before the incident this morning, I did not clearly comprehend how someone wouldn't be able to understand what you are writing. I found that usually people DO "understand" what you are writing because they are familiar with English and can read, but I also found that just because they "understand" it, doesn't necessarily mean that they comprehend the context in which it was written. This situation could cause a lot of confusion as it did for me this morning when my roommate told me water was pouring from our ceiling. At first, I thought she had a type-o, until I walked right into the situation and found out really quickly that she didn't. The only problem with this, is that when we write, our readers cannot "walk right into the situation." It is our job to clearly lay out the situation in writing for our readers.
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