Googling myself seemed like a weird idea at first… I wasn’t exactly sure of what would pop up. I assumed things like my social media accounts such as; Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat would come up. But, I was still uncertain about the rest. The first thing I did was look myself up through Google, followed
After reading the article, “Were College Students Better Off Before Social Media?” I found it very interesting how college students just 15 years ago had a completely different life than the life we live in today. The article also mentioned that mostly no one used laptops because there wasn’t any Wi-Fi which surprised me because
If the iPhones, iPads, and tablets of today existed 30 years ago, then I could technically not exist right now. To further explain, I must tell the tale of how my parents found each other. My mother, born in Argentina, spent her childhood and adulthood living in both Argentina and Columbia with her family. Her
My most significant experience with technology happened while I was still living in Brazil in the second grade of elementary school. It was 2008, and I was a short chubby kid with Justin Bieber’s haircut who just liked doing math and having fun with a specific group of friends. Nevertheless, I was emotionally bullied
Doug Ridley’s article, “How Today’s Colleges and Universities are Using Social Media” touches upon the new trend of social media aiding in connection and productivity for universities. Ridley’s work explains how social media helps promote the school to their students, future and current, as well as alumni. Posting pictures of clubs, events, and functions of
Katie Hurley’s article “Social Media and Teens: How Does Social Media Affect Teenagers’ Mental Health” on psycom.net addresses the prominent issues of social media and how it affects one’s mental wellbeing. Hurley describes the lack of research done on the aforementioned theme, and how it is difficult to come to a conclusion in this regard
In todays society, mostly everyone has some sort of an electronic device. This could include a laptop, tablet, smartphone, gaming console, etc. All these devices have one thing in common: they can perform numerous tasks that, before technology, humans had to do by other means. Technology developers have also found out ways to store huge
In an article from The Guardian, The internet: Everything you ever need to know it explains very crucial information about the internet, how it runs and consequences for different business’ or people good or bad. There are a lot of important and useful topics within the article but one that stood out to me was the prediction
Throughout my life, technology has only become more and more meaningful. It is a tool that I could not imagine my life without. Of course just like any individual certain technologies are more important than others. For me, the one thing I could not live without in terms of technology is my iPhone. My iPhone
Most people, including myself, assume that the internet is a system that is extremely complex to understand which makes most people, including myself, give up on trying to understand how the internet works. The irony of the matter is that, the internet basically has all the information in the world about everything we have ever
