technology | Ashleigh Craven

26
Aug
2014

Technology is the word

This week fellow blogger Rebecca expressed her outrage about Instagram’s plans to introduce sponsored Instagram posts, AKA advertising. I tend to agree with what Rebecca is saying. If you have a good thing, why ruin it? I understand that Instagram is a business and their prime objective is to make money, although one of the most frustrating elements of other social channels is the advertising and infiltration of information I am not interested in. Sort of like the advertising discussed in this recent blog post of mine.

In Carli’s Blog she discusses the idea of teenagers preferring to live in the technological world rather than the real world. I was able to see this occur at a birthday party I was at recently. A teenager at the party was sitting at the table with headphones in one ear, constantly texting. Other teenagers at the party preferred to play games on their iPad than engage in conversation and socialise with the other 70-odd guests.

I couldn’t agree more with Dom’s blog post this week about privacy online. I had a similar situation that he did regarding being tagged in an incriminating photo on Facebook. Long story short, I didn’t give permission for the photo to be uploaded and it was. It was a photo that incriminated me with my employer and I received disciplinary action because of the image, even though it wasn’t on my account!

20
Aug
2014

Blogging, blogging and more blogging

categories: Literature, Miscellaneous

This week Stephanie spoke in her blog about how her younger sister has become network literate, purely through self-learning off YouTube. It made me think about how Generation Y have come to learn about network literacies where a lot of other generations get left behind. Take my Mum for example. The other night my Mum insisted I show her how to ‘check-in’ on Facebook. I was baffled at how she did not know how to do this. It’s not like myself and all of my friends had learnt how to ‘check-in’ on Facebook. This was implicit knowledge that we just… knew. So why was it so hard for my Mum and my other family members to grasp? Do they not have the same underlining curiosity that the ‘younger’ generation do with technology? Will I one day be as tech illiterate as my parents? These are all questions I think of on a regular basis.

I did have a laugh at Maddison’s blog post regarding coding and the HTML test that I just completed. Now that she mentions it, all I can think of when I think about coding is Mark Zuckerberg and The Social Network, geeks and uni students locked up in their bedrooms with servers and writing code. P.S The Accidental Billionaire (the book the film is based on) is awesome.

Brady’s blog post with pictures of Lego mini-figures represented as websites, is not only cute but hilarious! The Google one definitely gave me a laugh.

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