growing up online

Online Relationships -Healthy or Unhealthy?

Have you ever heard of people called doble-faced?It doesn;t mean they have two faces it actually means that they have two different attituted that they use with poeple. For example... Maria always talk nicely to Priscila but then when she talks to Romina about Priscila she's all nice. This could not only be applied to attitud but to internet life.

Here in the normal world you have to be yoursElf. Act like yourself , never do anything bad or unforgettable in a bad way. In the Digital world you can be whoever you want. Actress model,fighter,goth,hippie,neagtive, positive,punk,social freak,shy.....

Havung the advantage to be 2 different people is really bad. This is a show that you are saying, i'm not comfortable with my self SO i need to be someone else that's not really me. People say those other "them" are more how they are and how they feel but really if you can;t be that way in the real world where everything is believable and has almost always a proof then you are lost in your way to happiness. YOu might seem happy and have millions of friends online but they like you for what you post not for what you actually are. If in facebook they talk to you and in school they won;t then they are not your "FRIENDS". Today, many people get confused they think being in someone;s FRIEND List in Facebook is actually being friends..It;s not..Being friends with someone is knowing them perfectly being able to say if they are mad sad or happy without them saying anything.Really those "Friends" in facebook aren;t friends they should be called " PEople i know".People's self esteem can higher up with their digital me but when they come back to reality they are no one important . That is what brings them down and makes them desire more and more become that DIGITAL me who they'll never completely be. This behavior can bring long term self traumas. Making people being depress for not being really perfect as they look in the pictures. Also by watching all the nice comments like You look pretty and then thinking whish they would say me that in person can bring their self-esteem down.Also some short terms is that after sometimes people will find someone new that they'll like better than you. It's like nursery over again. First everyone is exited for the new toy and then they find there is another one better and they forget about that "NEW" toy.This is one of the reasons why people saty online more and more instead of getting out and socilaizing. They always need to be better so that the followers taht comment pictures won;t leave them. there is always a need of self-imporvement. This is gooduntil a certain piont but evry COMPUETER ADDICT has taken this to the limits.

Double lifes seem fun but it take more than to lie of who you are. It take a whole you and the worst is that when you come down to reality that whole you you just gave gives you nothing in exchange but pain and suffering.

Growing up online

Identity Play

Now days whatever we post online is seen by tens, thousands, millions, billions and trillions of people. We might think that only because we say "ONLY FRIENDS CAN SEE THIS" half of the people we don;t know will end up seeing it. Think about this, our friends have friends we don;t know, so if we have a picture of me and Priscila she might show her the picture to her friends in Japan . Then those people can drag our picture to their desktop and BOOM all of our information is shared.Also soemtimes we add someone we don;t knoe maybe theri name is the same. Last week I had a friend request from a girl named Fernanda HERNADEZ. When i was younger my bff in Acapulco our vacation place was Fernanda Hernandez. I had no mutual friends. I accepted her but then i realized by seeing her pictures and all that , that she wasn;t her.I had accepted a total stranger. I realized taht 3 days later so by then she or he or them could have gotten all the information they needed to kidnapp me. This may sound exagerated but it's happened before.There are also certain things you should and certain things you shouldn;t post online. The information that you give if crucial when having an account or using internet. You should never, give your real adress or your city or your home number. Also you should never tell someone you barley know where you live when they ask you your adress. This things can put you and your family in danger.People that see the things you upload are mainly friends or people you know. When you upload something you are trying to show them your recent events .Sometimes the worst thing is that people tagg us in pictures and their friends cans see who you are and where you live. They can also spot you easily in other pictures orin events you could assist. Posting things online is also dangerous because some people for example your friends can also post things up and other people can see where you've been and with who you hag-out and the places you visit frequently.The things we post may be directed for a certain audience such as our friends but we should always be aware of what we post and where we post it.

growing up online

Social Networking -Keeping in Touch

Today we all use internet to say what we feel. We don;t fear of the response of others or how they are going to think about us. We can say whatever we want whenever we want to. When a conflict comes up online or someone starts arguing about something you can fix it by saying someone else was using your computer or you were "HACKED". This use of internt for expression of emotions is useful in someways but really hurtful in others. By saying useful, i mean that sometimes teens and even adults have something inside them that's really putting them down or getting them angry. When the case comes they videotape all the things they have to shout out to the world and then post it online to see if anyone thinks the same. This helps for people to socialize and solve their problems together with helo of people that has been through those things or is going through those things.It's harmful because sometimes those"things" can be directed to someone in special and they can say some thing that will hurt their feeling sand make them feel depressed. Also by posting thing online people can say all the bad things of a person or things that a person did or didn't;t do. If it;s something they didn;t do and tehy are giving them a lot of trouble to certain people because they didn;t do it then it will cause that person to do it and that could b e something that would turn out in a disaster.People get very influenced by what other think of them and if something about you that is BAD is posted in a public network such as FACEBOOK or Youtube then your social life and social status could be affected.This that happen in Internet are not real most of the time but keep believing them. People might also post things about something because they are scared to tell them in their face. Many people are afraid to see the other person's reaction so they just wait until they get online. Being online and trying to solve a problem is bad and good. It's bad because the people on the other computer doesn't know if you are alone, if you are being serious, if you are talking to 5 more people even is you are who you say you are online.IT's good because some people just can;t take to stand infront of someone and watch them, because the pressure if to high and they say things that weren't ment to be said. In online fights you can say.. BRB(be right back) and think about what's going on and what can you answer and the answers don;t have to be inmediate and you wont hav a person looking at you.Fellings should be expressed whenever you want but you have to think of the consequences of saying certain things and take them or just say what you feel somewhere else.

growing up onlie

During a video we saw today a teacher says they are becoming like entretainers. That's totally tru. Now days us, the students, we expect teachers to make their class and thier work fun and to entretain us because if they don't do it then we lose interest in their class and we diustarct others or we start doing our own thing.That is not good for teacxhers becaudse then mostof the students are not paying attention adn so all the things they are saying are being said for nothing because at the end there will be more questions and douts and they'll have to repoeat it for millions of times.Here in school the teachers entreain us by making us watch movies or telling their personal stories. They also try to get in our world to make us do things we like but make us do it for school.They are different from entretainers because we are forced to do those things . Also because they go back to the same boring teaching skills after some time of "entretaining"The possitive things about this is that we become more exited about goiunbg to their class and maybe things bevcome less stresfull and we become more respectful and less hateful.The negative thing is that when they use some of the other teaching skills we demand to be entretain and that could be tierd for a teacher to find different ways of entretain 100 students . Also then teachers and students get carried aways into other topics and the pint of the school subject is lost. Also students won't see the teacher as someone they should be respecting AT ALL TIMES and they will start to joke around and take advamce

internet

COMPUTER AT HOME
Today we use the computer for almost everything. It's use has come all the way that now we can take computers in a asmaller scale and with bigger memory all around(laptops).Computers are very different form book , T.V, magazines and Video Games .Compared to Books that you have to have physically to read a bout them , in the computer you can just look the book up and there are sites when they have the whole thing uploaded and it's alll away form a click ; not having to go to a bookstore or to the librbary.T.V. is most like a computer but the difference is that you can't foward or rewind a movie or a clip and if you are looking for a spocial thing you have to wait and you never know exactly when it'll be transmitted. In computers you look up clips, movies, add,s and extra information from all the things yousaw or you could see ina T.V.Magazines are more complete than a book because they contain mostly information about everything and unlike T.V. you can find the add you need or the photo of someone faster, but magazines come only once a month and sometimes you need more informsaytion about something instanly and the magzine wont provide it until next month. In videogames now they are like a ocmputer , you can go online with your friends and have chat talks with them all. The only problem is that you need ot have XBOX LIFE. or sometihnglike that. Computers now are used so much at home . hOMEOWRK, fUN, ENTRETAINMENT...In houses today the computer is used mostly by Teens and then by younger kids that like to go play. Also it is used by parents for work .In homes there are no longer many desktop computers there are more lap-tops that can be moved around to many many places.The bed the room the kitchen the living room...The computer is use in extremes . Morning day night. This is because you can get the answer you are loking for easily and you find all your frinds logged on and you can talk to them and even see them through a video chat.Computer are everyone's double life.

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. ~Mary Ellen Chase

This christmas was the end for a twisted akwerd year. OF all other holidays christmas was the most waited for in the whole world. christmas doesn't only gathers all the families together but it brings a new start to everyone. This year my family decided that like every year we were going to Mexico City with all my family to the traditional dinner. We were going there for one week and then we'll head back to Vallarta to spend New Year here with friends. This is the first year we do this. Other years we had to go the full holiday to Mexico City. It really didn't bothered me until the second week because all myt cousisn were away in their holiday.

So we started our journey one saturday. I think it was the 19 december. We drove through the beautiful highways full of color and beauty. WE drove 9 hours til we got to Mexico City. In Mexico City we visited cousins friends family and almost all the people i've met there when we lived there. So many thoughts went through my head there. I wondered if i ever would go back there. There were pro's and con's but at then end i remebered how much i awaited my returned to what i call now Home.In Mexico we went shopping with my grandma. Other days we would go to the salon to get our hair or nails done. There were many family reunions. In all the thinkintg and the time i spended with my family i realised how much i miss my friends there. i hope i could have kiddnaped them and brought them to Vallarta.Also my mom is really into cultural things so we had to go to the "turibus" . That is a bus that takes you all around mexico city's historic center and things like that.

In Christmas eve we went to my dad's parents house. My dad has 11 brothers and sisters. It's a pretty big family. I love spending time with them. They are all lovong and caring. Every Christmas i help with the cooking. i love to cook specialy with my uncle Ale who makes me laugh of all the funny stuff he sayas about the food. The moost i like of being there is that all the family that live in guadalajara US canada and Europe gets together. We left back to Vallrta the 16. We headed to the small village of San Miguel de Allende. I had so much fun there .It's so colorful and has kept the look of a mexican village in this modern era. S.m.De Allende was really cold. I had to use 2 sweaters and a scarf ans still I was freezing. We slept there and then we went to Tlaquepaque. It's a little town near Guadalajara. I love goingthere there is so much to see. After Thoise wonderful places we headed to Guadalajara to have doiner in my cousins new Restaurant called "LA UVA". = I RECOMENDED SO MUCH IT IS SO GOOD. Nect morning we headed backt o vallarta. I could smell the ocean miles away. I was desprate to get there. When we arrived i felt i could finally breath and relax.

In vallarta i went to the beach to the movies to my friends house. I felt like home i was so glad we dodn't had school becaude i had nothing to worry about no homework to finish before morining. I couldnt stop smiling. The 31 we went to the house of the Tron Family. There we had NYears with Priscila Courtney Sebastian Diego frank Julian MArco Mateo Dani .. I had so much fun and i was so happy to be with all my friends. The girls my age got permission to go to a night club called Cesars. There we met woith Adri and her cousins. I couldn't be happier. I thinbk it was the best of all the New Years ever. Next days i watched movies and movies and more movies and relaxed went to the beach and had fun doing nothing. The last day i had to do all my homework which i was really pissed by because i couldn't belive teachers left us hoemowrk when the Chroistmas Break was to realx ans stop thibking about school and worring. I thibk we already need more vactions . They went so fast but now that i think what i did i feel i 've donde so many things since the last time i walked out of the school door.

This year is new and i feel it's going to be great. Better than last year and than the year before.