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Reflections from the WIKI Lab and the article reading.
Upon reading the article entitled: “Hacking Human: data-archaeology and surveillance in social networks." The main thought left in my head, was that I was a stalker, and that it is so easy to become one. Through facebook I have become an addictive stalker of people who are not necessarily my friends. Facebook puts pressure people to add each other because they don’t want to be considered rude if they don’t add someone that is familiar to them. I have access to many people’s profiles, pictures, videos, and wall post with their other friends, and I don’t consider myself a close friend to the majority of them. I find myself however stalking certain people, trying to get a glimpse of what is going on in their lives, pictures to see how they look, and even updates that they post about themselves. Facebook makes it easy for me to find out when anything important has changed in anyone’s life, by posting it all together on a homepage so that I have a guide to tell me which profiles I need to visit that day. I am embarrassed of what I am doing, yet it had become so mainstream that I am able to confess about it on this blog, and continue to stalk people without even feeling to weird about it.
When practicing how to use the Wiki, I must confess that it was really easy and fun to do. I remember struggling with the Wiki in my music and creative arts class. It was really hard for me to understand what was going on, and I was having trouble doing what I wanted to do. I thought it was really cool how the Wiki allowed me to easily use Jason Nolan’s name to lead viewers to his live journal page. I also found the “Most frequent Wiki markup explained” site to really help me better understand how to edit on my Wiki. I can see myself returning to this page a lot during my project because the instructions are simply and clearly laid out for me. For some reason it was a bit difficult for me to upload a picture of myself on my page, but the process just made it that more rewarding for me when I finally saw my picture up there! I really enjoyed this process and I think the clear instructions played a large role in my enjoyment. I am looking forward to getting started the SongChild project, and am thankful for such an organized and helpful professor.
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Wow Shoshi
The wiki is so exciting isn't it ... Well its great that your looking forward to do the Songchild project. I had the same experience in Danny's class "Music and Creative Arts". It was difficult in the beginning to use wiki but now I am getting into the habit with all the commands.