Bad Interviewing Questions

During this interview Oprah question Lance Armstrong about his drug use. This interview if you watch it was a good example for a bad interview. Reason why it was a bad interview was because she asked bad question. She had a ton of Yes and No questions that could have went in dept and further explain his use for illegal drug use.

During the second video this man was being interviewed for a new job. The questioned ask from the interviewer were okay ,but the interviewee did not give good reasons to the interview questions.

Interviews are important on both the interviewer and interviewees part. Good questions and good asks are keep components to a good interview.

"Someone To Watch Over Me"

While reading the assigned reading, "Someone To Watch Over Me" I kind of was in shocked of how a 24 year old girl had so many different social networking sites to connect to different communities. It was understandable that she had the different social networking sites because she states, "Every profile is a carefully planned media campaign" (Stites 163). But on the other side it was still crazy how everyday she had a schedule to view each and every site to make sure everything was up to date. Even though online she is able to express her true personality as we go along generation now and to come people will lack the ability to communicate well with other face to face rather than just social networking site to social networking site. A lot of people search for acceptance from someone, but if someone doesn't except the person that you are then they're no meant to be there. This reading had me thinking a lot about how social networking sites take away from your personality but then again it lays it right in front of you. This girl put  a lot of time and effort into her sites and really love the different communities she was apart of which to me showed dedication, loyalty, and commitment.

"It Takes a Tribe"

In the reading, "It Takes a Tribe" David Berreby was explaining to his readers of how colleges do certain traditions that some of us may value them while others wouldn't seem to think it isn't as important to them. What was interesting about this reading was that Berreby is absolutely right. We as the people may not know it, but we form our groups everyday based on our beliefs and what we value. He gave an example of a college campus and how we have many communities and groups. We are one solid community because we all attending the same college but within our community we have the different majors you can choose to study, and further into that we have the different sections of that major to solely focus on. With that there are many of us who feel the same way on certain things and come together because we have a common interest and value that interest. One thing that Berreby said that caught my attention was when he said, "A college campus is full of people inventing a sense of "us" and a sense of "them".( Berreby-120) When he said this I believed that he was trying to say to his readers that if you believe in something or value what is stands for then you will feel part of that community. As well as not only you but others will feel the same way about it as well which will make you to us.

Update on Identity Collage

So far on my identity collage I have a solid foundation on what my overall theme is. My theme that I came up with was music because it shapes that person that I am today. I love music and it just sums up every aspect of my life. I decided that I was gonna have pictures of things that I have done with music and how it relates to me, as well as favorite artist and instruments. As for my actually collage, I haven't started on it yet because I am still looking for more ways of how music and I come together as one also different pictures as well. I feel as thought that this essay/ assignment will show to others the person that I am, but it will also show to me how much music is me and can describe that person that I am from sweet and sensitive to dramatic and free flowing. Looking forward to everyone else collages as well. :)

Identity..

While reading this weeks reading assignments, "Alter Egos: Avatars and Their Creators", "Facebook: Editing Myself", and "High Schools Secret Life" the reading that seem to pop out to me the most was the "Alter Egos: Avatars and Their Creators".What I found most interesting about the reading was that most people create an avatar to escape from life and how they are perceived by others. Many of the creators had different reasons to why they have created their avatars, but overall it came back to the main idea of their identity and how your avatar is related to you in a form of way. One of the creators Jason Rowe created his avatar based on his physical disabilities to not being able to do certain things. With his avatar he is able to escape from the real world as well as interact with people and everyone would be on "common ground" (Dibbell). Jason felt as though his avatar was able to make people get to know him by his mind and personality rather that his physical appearance. Another avatar creator by the name of Rebecca Glausure created her avatar because of not being treated fairly based on her gender so she made an avatar completely opposite from her.

My personal opinion to this reading is that it is true. Deep within everyone there is a feeling of wanting to be something that they cannot be in the real world or fleeing from a situation that is occurring and the only way for us to channel or emotion and actions is to create something that could be us so that we can be ourselves and brings out the true identity within us.