My Second Life character is just like a normal human. I am wearing a pair of blue jeans, and a polo t-shirt. The shirt is gray and has two blue stripes on it. I am average height, I have blue eye, just like in real life. When I made my avatar, I made it to look as much like me as i could. I did not know how to do everything perfectly, so i did my best. As I was playing second life I learned a lot about the different ways to interact with different people. My favorite thing to do in Second Life is to walk around in the different cities to see how they are similar or different to real cities.

My Aunt Mary

If I had to pick a favorite relative, it would be my grandma.
Dear Grandma,
I have heard you found out about the new social networking systems. Myspace and Facebook are a way that people can stay connected and always talk to each other. You also said you might like to get one, but I think it would be way to complicated for you to use and you would also not really like it. You have to get friends, but if you don't have any friends its not any fun because there is no one to talk to. I guess if you had to get a social network I would say get a Myspace, because it seems to be a lot easier to use. I don't think you should get all up into Myspace, because it can really get addicting and you should not always be on the computer.
Your Favorite,
Steven

TV Concerns

When I was younger, I watched a lot of TV. I watched many of the shows that were on in the morning, and i watched shows that were on Disney. I think growing up, there were a lot of shows that i could not watch, and now that i think about it, my parents made a good decision. When kids are younger, they should have some sort of rules on what they can watch. If kids could watch whatever they wanted, the kids could be influenced to do things. When kids see things on TV, they sometimes like to try and be that person. An example of this is when i was younger i liked to watch power rangers. I wanted to always be the red ranger, just like everyone else who watched the show. After the show I would ask my friends if they wanted to play power rangers outside, so we acted like we were on the show. Now imagine if UFC fighting was around back when I was younger, and I wanted to try and act like them. I would watch UFC and then ask my friends if they wanted to go fight. I don't really think that sounds like something kids should be doing. There were also a lot of shows like Southpark, and other shows that were meant for adults that i could not watch.

The next part I have noticed about TV, is that they allow just about anything on. Over the past few years, the characters on TV shows can say just about anything. I found this to be kind of weird. Some kids can just watch any channels, and then they will just start saying things that kids should not be saying. I have also noticed that on Comedy Central, past midnight, they can say anything they want on some shows. This is fine with me because I'm older, and I guess most of the younger kids are sleeping. I just think that TV has really been opened up to just a bout everything now.

Wiki Discussion

The wiki discussion I looked at was on Pop-Punk. I thought this was very interesting, because it talked about how when you blend two genres of music together, it makes a whole new set of bands that can be in the genre. As you can probably tell, this blends together pop music, and punk music. The discussion mostly just talks about how the band that are in the wiki. Many people do not agree at all on what bands should be in the certain genres. The two bands that people do not think belong in the wiki are Fall Out Boy, and Panic! At the Disco. The discussion says that these two bands are not Punk, so they can not be in this genre of music. Next I looked at how pop punk is an oxymoron. They say this is an oxymoron, because pop is a mainstream type of music, and punk is the exact opposite, where you do not want to be in the mainstream. I think that this was very interesting, because the people really talked about how they didn't like the list of the bands and they also didn't like how the wiki was talking about how they describe the music.

Exercise 2

When I think of the news, I usually like to watch it on TV. Sometimes I read the news paper if I see something that catches my eye on the cover. The only other thing i read is the news on yahoo because it is sometimes interesting. When I watch the news on TV, I normally watch the national news, but sometimes I watch local news. I personally don't really watch the news very much, because right now all people are talking about is how bad the stock market is doing, and the election. I think that this is all very annoying after a long time of listening to it. If i ever need to know what is going on in the news I can ask someone in my family, because they always know whats going on. I sometimes watch MSNBC to see how the stocks are on some days, because I like to see how I would do if i ever put money in the stock market. The other thing about news that bothers me is how everything is opinionated. You always hear what the other people think, but usually I don't care what someone else thinks.
When I think about a good reliable resource for news. My news resource would have sports, because I like to know what is going on with my favorite teams. I would want the news for the different stocks for the day, so I know how the economy is doing. I would need the weather for sure on the news because I need to know what to wear and what to do that day. So overall I don't really like to watch the news, but I would rather read about whatever I would like on Yahoo.

Class Wiki #2

I think that we should have some sort of organization in some way. We should get into groups and each group gets assigned a part of the wiki. If we do not have any organization, then we could have some problems with people writing about the same things. If we all just do our own thing I don't think the wiki would be as informative, because it will lack a lot of good information. The best way is to get the classmates in groups and then just start making that section of the wiki as a group so there is no overlapping.

Question 1 & 2

#1 The ad that I used was an ad by McDonald's. In my ad I had a thin person walking into a McDonald's, then the next part of the picture was a fat person on a scale. On top of the ad it says "I'm lovin' it" then at the bottom it says "Too Much." I said this because if you love McDonald's too much then you could gain a lot of fat from eating their food. I think this ad would be effective because it shows people what happens when they eat a lot of McDonald's. When i moved from concept to design, i had to find pictures online that would work for my ad. It was hard trying to find the right pictures.

#2 I learned that it is very difficult to make an ad that would be seen by everyone. The ad would only work for a select amount of people. Communication just shows how you feel about the product that you did the parody on. If someone is looking at the ad, they may not feel the same way as you do about the product. I learned that advertising is not always true, the product will always appear nicer than in real life.