meet up .com

1.      This week’s tool meet up.com relates to how we communicate in so many different ways these days that we have with social networking. Meet up.com has that interpersonal communication but also it has dyadic which you can be personal and straight up on some of the pages that I look at on meet up.com. But also this site can be accessed from other social networking sites like Face book, twitter and YouTube. The site just shows that it's another way of social networking with people on the Internet. But what I learned in class this week it also showed the relationship development on select topics that I was interested in and how people can be really close on some of these pages but also how far apart you can be with opinion on these pages as well

2.      What meet up.com and also mingle did was meet people that we do not even know and we can meet online just like Face book and MySpace allows you to do.  This tool allows you to join groups that you are interested in and also things you like to do in your free time. I mean there were so many different clubs and organizations on meet up.com that I couldn't believe how many people interact with the site. But this tool serves as another chat room/communication tool where people can interact on a different meet up clubs websites on what's going on and when people are meeting each week for the club. This website reminds me of clubs here at St. Ambrose University but the online version of its which will be in the future as technology gets better.

3.      This tool meet up.com allowed me to join groups that are in progress at pages about what the group is and when they meet in town like there were groups about playing board games right here in Davenport and down the street from school which is cool. But also this website allows me to create my own group which I did about my favorite football team the Green Bay Packers and I haven't checked in a few days  but I have a few members in my group already. But maybe in the future I will join some group’s right here in town to get to know people that live in this area.

4.      The thing that was most challenging about meet up.com was all the groups that you could join and things that interested me the most with the different groups. I mean had to be careful what information was given out to other groups that I joined because I don't want people stalking me and finding out where I am and my phone number because I never met these people before and I have seen things on the news about what happens when new people meet and it's not good. By seeing this website having great success I think I can trust people in the groups that I have joined.

5.      I think this tool needs to be improved by getting out there so more people can find out about this website because my first found out about this website I never heard of it before. So I think if we could give this website more recognition I think more people will join it and even create more groups as well.

6.      My experience with meet up.com is that to me this site was just another social networking site that sounded kind of brand-new to me. But once I got to explore this website I thought it was fun and cool with all the different groups and clubs that I like I could join and some of them were right here in town. There is something for everyone on meet up.com where they can join and meet new people and things they like and have in common with each other. I'll be using meet up.com for a while and join other groups as well.

creating my own blog

In class this past week I created my first blog on blogger powered by Google. I got to create my blog page the way that I wanted it to be. And one of the most challenging things that came up when I was creating my blog page was what type of background do I want to make it look cool but also stick out when people checkout my page when I post things on it. The other problem that I had creating my blog was what kind of widgets to put on it so can stick out when people check my blog out. I mean when I think of the widgets to put up do I go with the things that I like and follow on other social networking tools that I use or do I go with things that are related to the class. So that was tough for me to do but I figured it out in the end and I hope everyone likes it. But it will be interesting to see what others people's blogs and their widgets and also what they are. I mean I have been a social networking freak for quite a while because I already have a Face book account, twitter and now I'm blogging and it's new for me but I have read different blogs on different topics. But for this class computer and technology it will be pretty cool to blog about the different topics we learned in class throughout the semester. Along with the different social networking tools that we will learn from our fellow classmates when they give their presentations on their topic and it will be pretty cool to give our opinion about it. I mean I didn't really have many challenges with learning how to blog because is just another social networking tool and it’s been around for quite some time and I feel that I am pro with blogging. Even though this is my first blogging page I just feel that I have enough social networking tools in my life and I don't need any more.

I think blogging improves the way we communicate with people especially in today's world with the technology getting better as the years go on. Blogging makes your voice be heard on certain topics that you agree with or you don't like and also you can voice your opinion on what you think should happen on a topic that the person has blogged on his or her page. With many people following this person on his blog page you can get a controversy going on this topic and will be going back and forth with the people and their opinions which is kind of like an argument in person but with blogging it’s the online experience. But over the next few years I think blogging will improve in many different ways to make it easier for everyone to blog and I think there'll be an app someday where you can blog and you can post it to Face book or tweet about it on Twitter which will be so cool and just make social networking and communication even better.

My experience of creating my first blog is pretty cool because I get to see people comment on what I post and see what people have to say and give their opinions and also think what is best. But also I will be able to look at other people's blogs and comment on their things of what there topic is about. But also I'll change my blog and how it looks every once in a while because I think I don't want to keep it the same as it looks now I want to change around and make it look interesting. So that way if someone looks my blog they might think oh that looks cool I wanted something like that and for me it just gives me a variety. But I really enjoyed creating a blog because it's just another social networking tool that I can use.