Technology..is technical

Do you have friends whom you only know from the Internet and have never met in person? Is this different to people that you know in person? Describe the difference.
How long have you been using these communication technologies?
What influenced you to start using these particular technologies?
Is privacy an issue for you when using new technologies? (How do you deal with issues around privacy?)

Interesting, you may think? All I can think about at the moment is when I will be able to eat something and have a power nap, but for the purpose of grades I will stop thinking about my belly!



To start, privacy on the Internet is clearly not an issue for me, because I wouldn't have posted a story about my life in a blog for everybody to read, the only way I deal with privacy issues is I don't put my address or phone number ANYWHERE. Why do young girls always post their mobile numbers in comments on a strangers page on Myspace? I've come to the conclusion that they must have no life and enjoy prank phone calls.

Myspace is pretty much a place for stalkers not friends! When you see your profile views jump considerably after uploading new photos and don't have 1 single damn comment you know that people are being nosy. So if I had an issue with this I would not have Myspace, its far too amusing!



New communication technologies never cease to amaze me and I mostly use these technologies to keep in contact with friends and family and to study. I still have no idea how to do most things on the Internet (like a template for my blog because clearly this current one is putrid, and that is why I enrolled in this class.)The Internet has never been a place for me to talk to complete strangers who I am never going to meet because I think that is such a waste of time and energy unless you are learning something new from this stranger. However I have made a really lovely friend who I adore, and I'll admit it, it was purely through the Internet. Mon was moving to my hometown and saw me on a mutual friends page and emailed me on Myspace, we met up and fell in love haha not in love but we got along heaps well.Now I talk to her every week and miss her with all of my insides.



I use the Internet everyday just about and have been using a computer and the net since about year 7 so since 2000. I think what influenced me to use these technologies was to progress with the world and to keep in touch with everyone, but what I really used it for when I was younger was to chat on MSN because that was how you initiated a date back in the younger days but...when mobile phones became popular and your parents actually supplied the funds for you to buy a mobile phone, MSN was ditched for SMS as a way to overcome your shyness and lack of confidence and you were actually able to talk to a boy without going bright red. Well that was my tips and hints for dates, not really but if it wasn't for new communication technologies I'm pretty sure I couldn't get through Uni and I would not be able to keep in touch with my family who live 7 hours away. So I thank the new communication technologies and hope that after this subject I will be more in touch with the world and its forever changing technology. Amen!