Caucus meeting

Hey ya'll, so I went to the caucus meeting tonight and it was amazing the hundreds of people that were there to come and support.  I was thinking that it was possible all of those people were able to be there because of media.

At church this past Sunday our Bishop read a message from the 1st presidency told us that we need to attend one of these meetings this week.  It's amazing how usually I am more nonchalant about city things, all of the sudden it became a sense of duty because of this message that was shared.  It's amazing what media does because messages can be shared immediately because of email.

I enjoyed that this was a positive reaction of how the media was used!

Mother Google

Seriously I am just in love with Google.  Google is there to answer my every question.  She is there when I need something inspirational, awe inspiring.  She even helps me link with other sights like facebook, youtube, or other sites that I perhaps would have forgotten the name for.  Mother Google also updates me on holidays that I may have forgotten.

Google also feeds me; i just google a recipe and can find recipes that I can make using the foods I have.  Mother Google along with duck-tape is keeping the world together.

I love you google!

Support

It seems that since being in class, watching the documentary, we have all noticed how much the media influences how we look.  It seems that Dove is taking a stand against what it going on.  I really enjoy this little commercial telling us more about how media starts effecting even our little ones at a young age.

What can we do to make it stop?

Allow vs Weird forever

Since being in this class it makes me think more and more if I should let my kids watch TV or not!  It was really interesting to watch this documentary yesterday and watch all the problems that come with the media!  It is worth the risk?  Or is it better to go and take my future kids to museums, go hiking, play tennis together, create, etc so they live their lives rather than watching TV so they can be apart of the school kids conversations?  

and what about lets say I keep them "sheltered" while they live in my house...what about when they go off to school? are they bound to be video-game-playing-porn-watching addicts? or will it help them not tolerate it as much?

Professor Coyne has shared many positive benefits from watching TV. But it seems that there are many cons that can come from TV.....I don't know which one to choose!

Buzzing disease?

Interesting thing that has happened in the past decade: the buzzing disease.  This is a disease where you think you feel your phone ringing or vibrating and so you check your pockets/bag, just to find out it's not there or it's on silent.

Reminded me of my experience in the MTC when I went completely without media for awhile.  It was amazing how all of us kept thinking we felt our phone in our pocket or thought it was vibrating in our bag, when in reality it was only our imaginations!

Another thing I have thought of is when we go to facebook constantly to see if: he/she has written us a message...but nothings there.

Is it all in our imaginations?  Can we have psychic powers to feel or know when our phone is going off? someone has facebooked us?  There has been a few times when I have checked my phone to find out the person I was going to call is calling me! Has this ever happened to you?

China and the Media

So I'm sitting in Chinese 201 and what's the subject on for this week?  THE INTERNET.  So in class today we talked about what the internet is like in China.  We talked about the different sights that are blocked:

-google: because google went out and said that China's been hacking into gmail, so china cut them off.
-blogspot: a no-no because blogspot is apart of google.
-facebook
-youtube

Why is it that way? It's a way for the government to regulate what's going on in China and what their people are viewing.  We also talked about how the people get around the government by creating mini-blogs and talking about hot topics. For example last year there was a major train crash and several people died and the gov't said that they wouldn't help out the families who had members who died. These blogs went crazy and the gov't tried to shut em down. But overall because these people blogging went crazy and the gov't over all helped out.

Our professor also mentioned how when she lived in China she could pay extra for an internet connection to get US connection to the internet.  We asked her why the Chinese don't just buy the extra internet connection.  Our professor just said, "it's because they don't really know about it or care."  It made me think....what if we didn't know about facebook bc it was blocked?  or youtube? or even google? weird thought.

It was super interesting discussion that we had in class today I'm grateful for mother google.

The New Lent give up

What is Lent exactly?  It is a christian holiday that starts 40 days before Easter to celebrate the death and resurrection of Christ. Before people during Lent would give up rich foods, today people during Lent give up things that are their faults. This year it started on February 22 and then ends the 3rd of April.

It has been interesting talking about Social Networking in class the past few days.  It has opened my eyes to how people communicate with one another.  Another interesting phenomenon I see going on is that because this social networking can take over our lives sometimes, people are actually giving up Facebook, Twitter, etc for Lent!

I personally like using facebook and enjoy that it keeps me connected with people from all the places I've been to.  If it gets out of hand maybe next year!