Blog #19

This blog is about what we did in the computer lab today which was to explore the websites named Myspace and Facebook. A lot of the students in our classes had both of them, but of course their were some students that didn’t have one of them, or none of them. I had a myspace for a long time maybe since I was a freshman in high school, but just recently I got a facebook. I thought myspace was the shit, but as soon as I got a facebook, just to me myspace got totally blown out of the picture. When I just had a myspace, everyone would be like make a facebook, so eventually I did. In our English class all we did was just explore the websites, which I did but really didn’t learn anything new since I have had both websites for a while now. I was on facebook most of the time just talking to some of my friends that were online at the time. I didn’t gain too much information, but found out that there are other games on facebook other than Farmville. Also since I had not been on myspace for a pretty long time that now you can search for jobs, and you can rate the professor. Little things here and their that I didn’t know existed on these websites. I gained some useful information that I could use in our upcoming essay comparing and contrasting the likes and differences of facebook and myspace. We were talking in the computer lab about some differences, and how on myspace you can decorate your profile, but on facebook you can not do any of that. Like I said before we just got into the English writing lab, and just explored facebook and myspace. I’m sure it was interesting for the people that didn’t have one of those websites and had to make it and learn it right away. We also had to send a friend request to the English Writing Center so they can be our friends on facebook/myspace. Eventually I saw that they would post things on the wall or profile and show available times for tutoring sessions. I think its neat because you can look from home, and not have to drive 30 minutes like I do just to see if there is an available appointment at the time you are looking to get tutored. Overall though it was a really good experience, and I can not wait to start writing the essay.