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Until recently, I haven’t had the need to use an online word editing program. Even though I still prefer MS Word (mainly because I am the most familiar with it), Google Docs seemed to be the easiest to understand and navigate. In the future, if I have to share or create docuemnts online, I will probably use Google Docs or Zoho writer.
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Nowadays website creation and social networking tend to go hand in hand. Until recently, websites were the primary form of relaying news and updating public and private information. Many websites have taken to using a secured portal system for each client. For example, YSU uses MyYSU. This system is an email , calendar , and group networking system. Also, users may interface with the ERP system to check their direct deposit status as well as other relavent tax information. In the near future student will be able to fully utilize the ERP and check their permanent record that YSU has on file. This includes financial aid and tuition payments. I have had a Facebook and Myspace account for nearly 3 years. I like using Myspace because it allows users to edit the html that creates their page. There are many webpages dedicated to hosting background images, pictures, and editing techniques for profiles. Facebook is a similar entity to Myspace; however, it’s original purpose was to link college aged adults to their college friends. Being so successful, Facebook diversified their user base to include nearly all walks of life including high school and working class adults. Facebook is a great and easy way to locate associates and friends. Unlike Myspace, Facebook requires people to use their real name. This makes individuals easier to search and add to your friends list. Facebook also offers many applications that members may add to their profile to show off things that they consider useful or fun. Facebook’s marketplace section offers members a way to freely list items that they would like to sell. A couple of examples include the time when I sold my Xbox to a local student for $140 as well as the time when I sold a car for upwards of $800 to a friend that saw my listing. Recently, I bought an Ipod off of the marketplace for a decent price. Overall, websites still offer services that social networking systems do not and vise versa. With the addition of RSS feeds, websites offer users to leave a piece of themselves on websites.
My facebook page is located at http://ysu.facebook.com/profile.php?id=49100051
My myspace page is http://www.myspace.com/ungs
My website is http://www.freewebs.com/jjunger/index.htm
Another website for the Info tech tools crowd is http://unger.jon.googlepages.com/home
My groups professional networking site is http://sites.google.com/a/student.ysu.edu/engr6923s08g4
More sites as of Tuesday, March 25
http://engr6923s08g4.wetpaint.com/
More sites as of Saturday, April 5
http://picasaweb.google.com/unger.jon/Lassie
As of right now I am not a fan, nor a user of blog websites. Blogs are useful in the way that they can disseminate information to people at the touch of a mouse button. In all reality they are just user opinions and other paraphrased statements that lead a reader to investigate their subject material more closely via a popular search engine. Within the last decade or so, the computer industry has boomed. By the year 2000, an estimated 60% of the population had a personal computer. Figuring that there are roughly 301,139,947 people in the US, 168 million of them had a computer running at home. Many of which had/have internet connectivity and were capable of internet surfing. Blogging started around 1997 when some guy that was posting his thoughts and feelings decided to combine the words weblog into a slur that has disseminated the masses as blog. Sounding like something you would do through a mud puddle or other favorite liquid substance, blogging became a catalyst for enthusiasts of all walks of life to share their thoughts on subject material that suited their fancy. For instance, one of the earlier blog sites was LiveJournal.com. Popular amongst a younger generation of webthusiasts (I highly doubt that slur will catch on, but you saw it first), LiveJournal became the voice of the angst ridden generation of individuals who had nothing better to do with their weeknights other than document their lives one keystroke at a time with the hopes that someone would care enough to read a snippet of script and leave a reply that would turn their world upside down. In many respects it did just that, LiveJournal gave readers a chance to relate to individuals who were like them and make the world a smaller place to live in. Fast forwarding to the present, blogging has taken steps reminiscent of Neil Armstrong’s moon landing. Companies such as Microsoft and CNN or political leaders utilize blogs to keep up with the latest mainstream trends affecting society. Blogs have empowered the masses to so something with their PC other than look at raunchy pictures and oogle over google. They give the user the power to say what is on their mind and populate the web with up to the minute details on the latest news. In fact, when the tsunami hit Sri Lanka several years ago, one of the number one means of communication was SMS messaging. SMS is more of a short form of blogging, it takes away all the fluff and is more straight to the point. This is sometimes due to the fact that it costs money to send out a message from a phone or other utility. The question that stands now persists is if blogging is bad. Since the world is moving in the direction of Web 2.0, which, in many respects, is basically a social network of bloggers, blogging will most likely keep increasing. The only disclaimer that blogging may support that it should not be done while operating heavy machinery, may cause irritated eyes, cramped fingers, LBP, and an array of misguided feelings.
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