Glossing over the essay blog

In my paper, I researched JuicyCampus.com and I found that the website is far worse than I ever realized. The themes that continue to recur throughout the essay are ones associated with reputation, rumors, gossip, and anonymity. What surprised me most about this topic were the problems that occur as a result of such a small and, what I had originally thought, inconsequential website. The idea of a posted rumor ruining not only someone’s career but reputation forever had never occurred to me. I realize now that I need to focus more on people’s careers and lives that were ruined as a result of online posts, despite the fact that the posts may not even be truthful. I repeat the idea of ruining reputations a lot, and how colleges have tried to ban such a website from their campuses. Instead of arguing more for this website to be taken down, I need to write about ways that this website has affected people and research into the positives, if they do exist.

Research for essay 2

When I was researching for this essay topic it was not an easy experience for me. I first went to the tcu library where I typed in the relationship between technology and relationships. Nothing really showed up under technology and relationships except for weird computer terms. I then typed in about fifteen other terms that were related to relationships and communication or technology and it's negative affects on society. I couldn't find anything that made since or went along with my topic. I went on about three more search engines that were suggested and couldn't get on Ulrich's. I might have to change my topic or figure out better key terms to research from. I found one source that I most likely will use for this topic if I can find other sources that go along with it. The one source I did find was on the tcu library website. I will probably go to the library this weekend to research more titles and find better sources.

Blog Essay 2 topic

Topic: Technology in relationship to personal communication
Question: Does technology have a negative affect on our relationships with other people?
Rationale: In this day and age it seems like people feel like they can’t survive without the use of the internet or their cell phones. The main reason is because we feel out of touch with the world when we can’t call someone or email them. The problem with this is that our perception may be wrong, in actuality the growing dependence on cell phones and emails may be causing us to lose touch with reality, the personal relationships with other people growing less important. I hope to find out how technology is affecting our relationships and whether it is positive or negative.