Blog #17

The four articles that we discussed in todays class is “Jury Out on Facebook Impact on Grades”; “Colleges Scan Facebook During Admissions”; Facebook sparks Suspicion”; “Does Facebook replace Face Time or Enhance it?” Colleges are looking at the students facebooks who are applying to the colleges university. They are seeing on the students facebook what the student is about. They are seeing his/her profile pictures, the language he replies in to his friends, and what type of friends does the student have. They are all helpful hints to help the colleges see if they are making a good decision on the student being accepted into their university. College universities do not what to accept a student in who is a big time party animal, or somebody who has picture on his/her facebook or myspace, & see them smoking weed, or having pictures of things that they should not be doing. I agree with this, but the thing is you have no idea that the person you are looking at if they are just hiding all the bad things you do. This guy or girl could be the local drug dealer, and you would have no idea because maybe he or her does not put out his or her business through facebook and myspace. I know a lot of people who smoke and drink, and they don’t post pictures or talk about it openly because they don’t want to get fired by work, or the high school programs that they are in find out. “Jury Out on Facebook’s Impact on Grades”, is just saying how Facebook is impacting students grades. I can totally agree with this because from personal experience, I have planned on getting on Facebook for approximately 10 minutes at the max, then I just have conversations with all of my friends. Next thing you know is, is that it has been an hour. Lol! I ended up doing my homework, but there are a lot of students that if this happens to them they won’t end up doing their work. My grades have not dropped or been impacted in a negative way since I made a facebook. “Facebook Sparks Suspicion” is just mainly talking about how other students are becoming suspicious about another person. For example, it stated how a girlfriend could see her boyfriends facebook, and say “who is this girl?” You can find out a lot from facebook, and you can foretell things that are going to happen. Relationships can go down the drain, because one of the people in the relationship can think wrong if the opposite sex is talking to another guy/girl. This article is just saying how facebook is sparking suspicion from everybody. Last but not least, “Does Facebook Replace Face Time or Enhance it?” The answer is it enhances it. This website Facebook used to be only for college students, and now everyone from high school, to 40 year old parents have a facebook. Also how people feel younger by using it. Possibly some people dropping cell phones for facebook. I would never do that ever, but that is their decision. Facebook is just helping the older folks feel younger again, and keeping in contact with old friends. Those are the 4 articles we discussed in class.