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Archive for September, 2017

For Following me around

Thursday, September 21st, 2017

If you’d like to speak to me personally, either message the page and/or follow me on my twitter. https://twitter.com/TValescu

Motivation for Online Interaction

Thursday, September 21st, 2017

The connectivity of the internet is what attracts me to it. The amount of ideas, and like-minded people to share them with has never failed to astound me since I made my Facebook account over 10 years ago. I have hundreds of friends from across the U.S and Europe that I would have never met […]

Does the Internet Make you Smarter?

Thursday, September 21st, 2017

Source Article: https://search.proquest.com/docview/357126917/fulltext/263AC18B3B6946D9PQ/4?accountid=14791 The internet has made the task of researching, and gathering information on topics you’re interested in, easier than they have been for the past century. No longer do you have to spend hours flipping through books for one specific piece of information, you just type it into a search engine and you’re […]

Love Online

Tuesday, September 19th, 2017

A story of love through long distances and electronic communications that helps us understand the magic of the internet. The two subjects in the article, Henry and Sarah, both met through online chat groups and found the same interests in one another. They grew close online, sharing info about one another, all the while having […]

It Takes a Village to find a Phone

Sunday, September 10th, 2017

May 2006, a woman named Ivanna leaves her phone in a New York City cab. It was a Sidekick, one of the newer phones of that decade. She desperately called the cab company once she had learned of its disappearance to no avail. It contained all the information for a wedding she was having, so […]