Part 1 ~ Social Media & Isolation
I believe we were asked to stop using social media & texting for a week was used as an experiment on how we would do as teenagers today. Doing the challenge just gives you an idea of what it was when there were no electronics and makes us appreciate what we have right now with all of our electronics and social media which is a convenience to us. Just like I stated in my blog post, I did not attempt this challenge due to using social media for work purposes and as I said I would have failed that challenge anyways. Although, I was more aware of the dependence we have with social media and how people can learn to appreciate what we have right now. This challenge made myself and others stop and actually think about what we have today with our easy communication with our phones and the ability to share photos and experiences with others with just a few clicks of the mouse, touchpad or tap of the finger. In conclusion to this, you see the world a different way without it and can catch things you've never noticed before while looking down at the screen of your phone texting someone, checking Tweets and posting Facebook statuses. While reading Nathans blog, his point about the social media challenge was quite true because he stated that it had nothing to do with english class and and he would have not benefited him in any way and I do agree with that. Although it was a good life lesson, it was pretty unnecessary. He also points out that social media is an unnecessary addiction and I really like that point because of how very true it is. Everyone in our generation is distracted by social media, making it an addiction when the power goes out or if there's no wifi available to them.
Part 2 ~ Phoniness & Lying
In the novel, phoniness is a way to be somebody else and to act a different way to make it seem as though you are feeling fine yet on the inside, you're not. In the situations of judging people for being phony, a teacher could be judged much more than lots of people because I've noticed in personal experiences how fake teachers act a lot especially around principals and whoever is up higher than they are. In the situations of accepting phoniness and lying is when we lie ourselves to protect someone else when they're not feeling well or if something happened and you want to protect them from someone or something. When it comes to other people lying and us accepting it, I feel personally that I always accept peoples lies when I obviously know when they're lying so we don't have an awkward standoff or so they don't feel uncomfortable in any situation possible. When it comes to lying, James' blog post stands out to me. He has a point where he states that you cannot explain a lie and his attitude about lying is very passionate and I like that. He feels powerful after he lies and I feel that's something EVERYBODY can relate to in some kind of way.
Part 3 ~ Conflict & Controlling Identity
Within the novel, the residential school was controlling all the Indians by controlling their identity, their names, how they view god and believe in him. They push the factor of god on them, forcing them to believe in god and worship him as their father. An example of the unwillingness to accept the way others see and understand you is when someone states that you as a person are stubborn yet you disagree with their view on you, causing great conflict because your unwillingness to accept the ways others see you builds up as anger because they think you're stubborn when you think you're not. In Kathy's blog post, she talks about how her family was not born in Canada as well so I can relate to how her family tries to push her into something they want her to be because they didn't have a chance to do so back at their home country. That one sentence alone on her blog spoke to me and I loved it because I could relate to it and possibly, so could others.
Part 4 ~ Conclusion
All of these insights I have discussed could be of use in any situation out in the real world. Examples of this could be for jobs, meeting people, talking to others and for the general mind.. That meaning its good for the mind to feel good and knowing whats right to do. Cellphones and social media is a must in the teenage world nowadays and sometimes I wish that wasn't true because as I said, we do grow extremely dependent with that and the need for instant communication with others or instant replies is something everyone wants or as they say, they ''need.'' Meeting new people is a good example to throw out into the whole social media junk and that means people in our generation of instant communication and electronics do not know how to meet new people to make good friends and have a good time in the real world. Social skills are dropping as we speak (well I guess as I type) and that does lead into applying for a job. Let's talk interviews. Our inability to communicate properly or how we all take our time to type out our replies on our cellphones is a whole different thing when it comes to answering on the spot questions. There's no time. There's no time to think at all about the questions for as long as we do when we text each other on our phones. Everyone fumbles with ''uhm''s and ''uhhh''s here and there. In conclusion to part 1 being of use, social media is a big thing that is both useful but also a big thing that could be in your way of the real world.
Part 2 explains how phoniness and lying can be a very bad thing yet good in some cases and opinions. As for meeting new people, lying isn't your greatest trait to pull out. Especially lying on a resume when applying for a job is something to avoid. Lots of people are said to be fake and maybe they don't even notice it because they're too busy with being someone else other than themselves. Off from that, theres people that lie to you to make you feel good but in my most recent blog post, (Blog #4: Phoniness & Lying) I included a quote saying ''People just tell you things they think they want you to hear to ''make you happy'' when you actually need feedback and not an ego boost.'' This speaks for itself. Ending off on lies and phoniness, it all ends up being an opinion based situation.
Touching on conflict and controlling of the identity is quite different from the other topics yet it's the same. They're all negative situations. The knowledge you can gain after getting into a conflict with someone can benefit you, the other person or even maybe both. Same goes with a group of friends fighting. Conflicts are not the happiest things ever but it's something everyone goes through at some point in their life and what I can say is that conflicts are a useful key of life because you learn from mistakes on what you've done or whoever has done. Learning from conflicts is the very end result of things, although many people give up before that could happen. You learn more about the person, more about the situation and more about what you want or what they want out of the friendship, relationship or whatever it is and therefore it's a very useful thing in life. Controlling of ones identity is something I cannot force myself to think that you can learn from or how it's useful. I believe that there is no possible use out of controlling someones Identity other than the power you feel afterwards but that is something I don't think is too great. Everyone should be themselves, build their own identity and share it amongst others but when it comes to people controlling others identities, that shouldn't really be considered. Again, I feel that all of these are opinions and others can have their own opinion about situations of Social Media & Isolation, Phoniness & lying and Conflict & Controlling Identity.
Part 2 explains how phoniness and lying can be a very bad thing yet good in some cases and opinions. As for meeting new people, lying isn't your greatest trait to pull out. Especially lying on a resume when applying for a job is something to avoid. Lots of people are said to be fake and maybe they don't even notice it because they're too busy with being someone else other than themselves. Off from that, theres people that lie to you to make you feel good but in my most recent blog post, (Blog #4: Phoniness & Lying) I included a quote saying ''People just tell you things they think they want you to hear to ''make you happy'' when you actually need feedback and not an ego boost.'' This speaks for itself. Ending off on lies and phoniness, it all ends up being an opinion based situation.
Touching on conflict and controlling of the identity is quite different from the other topics yet it's the same. They're all negative situations. The knowledge you can gain after getting into a conflict with someone can benefit you, the other person or even maybe both. Same goes with a group of friends fighting. Conflicts are not the happiest things ever but it's something everyone goes through at some point in their life and what I can say is that conflicts are a useful key of life because you learn from mistakes on what you've done or whoever has done. Learning from conflicts is the very end result of things, although many people give up before that could happen. You learn more about the person, more about the situation and more about what you want or what they want out of the friendship, relationship or whatever it is and therefore it's a very useful thing in life. Controlling of ones identity is something I cannot force myself to think that you can learn from or how it's useful. I believe that there is no possible use out of controlling someones Identity other than the power you feel afterwards but that is something I don't think is too great. Everyone should be themselves, build their own identity and share it amongst others but when it comes to people controlling others identities, that shouldn't really be considered. Again, I feel that all of these are opinions and others can have their own opinion about situations of Social Media & Isolation, Phoniness & lying and Conflict & Controlling Identity.
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