Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Ch.9 #1

After taking a class with you last semester about media, and it really made me switch up the way that I posted things and how I allowed myself to be portrayed. I really feel that now I present myself very well, too many times last when I did this review of my page, I left way to much out there showing to much of my personal life that would allow people to judge. I think that now people have a good impression of me, and know that I love sports and going to the gym because of my check-in's. I always have positive status's so people will know im pretty positive. In the past there have been things I wish I never posted, and looking back it was just me being immature and short fused, and mostly had to do with girls. I think this relates to conflict and communication in many ways, and those ways I would have to see is I learned that at one point I tried to convey messages through facebook towards people. And in turn people would get mad because I wouldnt directly come to them, I learned that social networks can be an outlet, but there also needs to be a face to face communication in many cases to avoid conflict.

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  1. The text mentioned that age can play a part in how we present ourselves and maybe you have grown a bit wiser just by virtue of experience. But as you pointed out, sometimes we need specific instruction (like from the media course you took and this class) to help us gain a better understanding of how we portray ourselves. And there is no substitute for that face to face interaction sometimes. Especially with “those conveyed messages” that have a potential for creating conflict. I think those of us that have been enlightened should pass on this awareness to others and maybe we can be a part of the social media wars solution.

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