At the moment, the majority of people are in a state of frenzy due to the rapid and drastic progression of the Coronavirus, from panic shopping to schools closing down, everything is chaos. But how different would this state of national emergency be if it wasn’t for the influence of technology? It has only beenContinue reading “Welcome to the 21st Century”
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Facebook Friend or Foe?
Online social networks are a crazy thing. Most people will add the usual family, friends from school, friends from work, their neighbours, etc. on their social media accounts, but it is scary the amount of people that would add someone on, for example, Facebook that they have only just met or even somebody that theyContinue reading “Facebook Friend or Foe?”
Pictures Tell a Thousand Words
This is a photo I took 3 years ago of a film strip I found with some of my baby photos. The ironic part is that I took this picture on Snapchat, which is evident from the text in the foreground of my photo. In the space of 17 years or less, we have goneContinue reading “Pictures Tell a Thousand Words”
Online Communication
Reading and writing is one of the first things we learn when we start school, but we are never taught how to communicate online. My sister is only 8 years old. She’s too young to have a phone and to be going on social media pages like Facebook and Twitter. However, she has already startedContinue reading “Online Communication”
The Development of Reading
You are currently sat here reading this blog post. If you look around wherever you are right now, I bet you could list at least five things that have some sort of language and text on it that requires reading. These were the first five things I spotted when I did the same thing whileContinue reading “The Development of Reading”
The Internet is Watching You
It is scary to think how much the internet knows about us. It knows our age, our gender, what we like, what we don’t like, even where we’ve been. Yet, we let it. We agree to these cookies that allow pages on the internet to share data based on what we’re looking at just becauseContinue reading “The Internet is Watching You”
Online Identities
While scrolling on Facebook this morning, I came across these images posted by one of the pages that I follow: For those of you who don’t know, these are characters from the popular TV comedy sitcom, Friends (my favourite TV show of all time). The show was on air between 1994 – 2004, a timeContinue reading “Online Identities”
My First Blog Post
The first blog is always the most difficult, you never know what to say and write. So like most people, what did I do? I Googled it. From listing out all the different media platforms and applications I use and circling the ones I use everyday made me realise that there are so many differentContinue reading “My First Blog Post”
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