The Final Post... maybe

In my very first blog post I stated, “The entertainment phenomenon is highly addictive and cannot be avoided.” After a semester of writing weekly posts for my topic, “Technological Audiences,” I was able to explore even further from my previous knowledge, as to how true that statement is.

I thoroughly enjoyed writing this blog and must thank Professor Yaros for coming up with my blog topic.

I like that I was able find enough topics that were relatable to my theme of “Technological Audiences.” I remained entertained and interested in my topic enough to write 37 total posts throughout the semester. I was never short of posts topics because I was always on the hunt and taking notes on potential posts for the future. Once starting my blog, I found that I would notice post topics throughout my day. I’d see an advertisement, or overhear something, or see a commercial on television that would spark a topic that I could use later on.

My favorite posts that I wrote took place during the social networking week. I found that a lot of potential topics for “Technological Audiences” fit well into the social networking category. The post titled, “Shameless Social Networking,” that I wrote on Tuesday, March 9,2010 applied.
The post involved a game, food, and social networking. All three are fun and entertaining for college students. I was most excited and interested to see how CampusFoods.com could combine with Facebook to provide students at the University of Maryland with a way to get discounts when ordering food. The aspect of Facebook within Campusfood’s website provided the aspect of social networking. Technological audiences came into play prior to the food order being made when students have to play a game online in order to get money off. Technological audiences also came into play after the food order was made online. The site offers to connect the students Campusfoods.com order to their Facebook account to tell all of their friends about their order and how they made it. The premade status that the website provides reads, “Lauren just ordered from Shanghai Café Chinese Restaurant on Campusfoods”, and then provides a click for others to click on. While at the time I was annoyed with the company’s shameless promotion, it is also a topic that I was excited to tell others about through a blog post. The many aspects that this post involved made it my favorite.

The week that involved writing about education as well as the reading on the article titled, “Mobile Behaviors as a Result of Personality Traits,” were my least favorite posts. Some of the topics and readings were hard to interpret or mold into applying to each person’s personal topic. I think that some themes cannot be applied easily to each person’s blog considering the large realm they extended to. The reading was especially difficult because no matter how many times I read the article I still was unsure of what I was supposed to be getting out of the reading. I felt that it was repeating itself a lot and walking around the topic in circles. This left me extremely confused and unsure of how to analyze it for my own blog. This post was one of my least confident to put o my blog.

Through this class and writing my blog I learned an endless amount about social networking and how to further use technology. I have never had experience working with Twitter, YouTube, or Picasa prior to this class. I definitely found the wide range of informational topics to be interesting and something that can be used large beyond this class. I would have never created a Twitter account on my own. However, I found it useful to use in other classes to get quick information on news tweets from CNN, or the Washington Post.
I also learned just about huge Google is. I was surprised to see how they are linked to the search engine, email accounts, YouTube accounts, a photo-editing page, and are able to track the information of the site’s users

From my personal blog, I hope readers to able to learn some quick and fun information of the entertainment topic of their choice. I feel I took a broad topic and explored many areas within it. I discussed television, social networking sites, celebrities ranging from Hollywood to facility and the University of Maryland and much more. I believe I remained up to date for the most part and updated my posts like an official blogger would.