Realizing the importance of discipline!
Hello everyone!
My name is Cressy King DeLong. I am a single mother of 2 beautiful daughters, 2 fabulous golden doodle doggies and I am an avid runner, golfer, and love life in general and also pursuing my BS in Psychology at GMU.
My fascination lies in social media - addiction. As you know may well know, we all spend more and more time online, whether it be social media, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc, there is also online classes, research, personal finance institutions, work, and so on and so on. Geee, what's for dinner... let me go online and look up recipes. Before you know it, you've been online for over 2 hours as one site will somehow take you to another and another. Not to mention the internet knows what you like! It will post advertisements on the side column of your screen of the items you google and sites you visit! Amazing isn't it?
What would we do without the internet???? How did we ever survive before it? When does it become an addiction? We must set limits for our children and ourselves in order to not get swept up and lost in the world wide web.
posted by Unknown @ 12:17 PM
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4 Comments:
Cressy,
I like our blog topic. Straight and to the point. I can admit to this; I tend to go online for homework or doing some research for a paper and tend to lose all kinds of focus and I end up on a shopping site, Netflix or one of the many social media accounts that I have. I feel as though when it comes to doing things that we have to do online, i.e: Homework, we tend to stray off task and go on sites and do things that we want to do because they have more of an appeal. Which then leads us to procrastinate and finish assignments at the last minute. I'm guilty of doing this all the time. Without the Internet I think the world would be at lost. :/ I enjoyed reading your blog.
Cressy, the title of your blog is very interesting. Gaining self-discipline is so hard today, the use of internet has improved our lives in so many ways, but at the same time it leads to procrastination. Great job at introducing yourself to your readers, it gives them the change to get to know the person behind the words of this blog.
This might be irrelevant to your topic, but did you know that some of the relevant ads you see is because you surf the web having your session open on Facebook or Gmail. For example, you go to macys.com and click on a pair of shoes you like, Facebook records this, and later they will display the ad of these specific shoes back to you using ad engines such as AdRoll because they believe if you see the shoes again, chances are you will go back to macys.com and purchase the shoes. This is called retargeting.
I also like the open ending in your last paragraph, your 3 questions leaves me thinking if I’m truly addicted to the internet. I also get this curiosity of what your next blog will be about. Quick reminder, each post needs to be at least 500 words and you need at least one link to a relevant outside source.
Hi Cressy, I love your topic because I think that its interesting since it is very relevant. I also enjoyed your examples of addiction and the anecdote you included talking about losing track of time while online. I do have to say though that even though I enjoyed these parts as well as your introduction, I would include a lot of base to the post. With information about addiction, maybe statistics and general symptoms or background information on how it develops. I also feel that your title did not personally connect to the rest of the post and did not relate except for when you again mentioned discipline at the end so maybe adding solutions to addiction or more of your own opinion regarding discipline would help. Lastly, adding links and some visuals would also add to the flow and increase the information the readers can pull from your blog. Good luck!
Personally I don't use social media all that often but those that I know do, are completely addicted. There are a lot of fun apps out there that allow you to do some really cool things like snapchat, twitter, facebook, and instagram. But there really is no need for any of these. if we just simply showed the person what we were talking about in person there would be a great boost in person to person communication and people would probably be more respectful to one another. This is a big deal for me because growing up it was always yes ma'am, no ma'am and yes sir no sir. This has no carried over to how I speak to individuals today and its a great trait to have.
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