I don’t really care too much about blogging, never had any interest in doing it and after this class I’ll probably never get on it again. I am on Facebook all the time, however I never post anything on there either, I just leave it open to chat with my friends whenever there is nothing else to do. My whole thoughts about blogging and twitter and even the Facebook post is that it is personal and useless information that nobody else cares about reading. I don’t care that someone is about ready to eat or if they are just sitting there watching TV and I really don’t care that they bought a new item on their Farmville. It really makes me feel bad to write on this blog because I have always been against people following other people’s personal lives and I won’t even let my kid have an account. It makes me wonder how I can tell my kid that stuff like this is bad yet she sees me doing the same thing. It’s like telling your kid not to drink alcohol while having a beer in your hand. I know there are a lot of people that think I may be crazy but I know how kids get together on these things and one see’s that their friend might be doing something and that makes them want to go do it (especially with the peer pressure these days). I use this excuse because we are having an issue with a 14 year old that we know wanting to go get a tattoo to remember her aunt that just passed away. She posted it on her Facebook that she was thinking about it and even though my mom has commented to her about not getting one because her aunt has never approved of them, all her little friends on there are commenting to her about how she should and not to listen to anybody else and some of them even commented that if she gets one, they will get one too. Well enough about my feelings about being a part of the “blog-o-sphere”

The topic about me being an online student is completely the opposite. I love the online schooling, it allows me to work all my studies anytime I want, it allows me to take my notes or watch lectures at my own pace and it also allows people who have kids and jobs to be able to go to school without the hassles of quitting their jobs or finding someone to watch their kids. I love the E-books that some of the classes offer, it makes note taking so much faster. It usually takes me 2 full days to take notes from my anatomy book where if it was an E-book it would only take me a couple of hours. I’m not really sure how to create a closer class community because I have always offered anybody (who wants to look me up on Facebook) help in studying and so far I have a few people that I had in other classes accept my offer and we help each other study all the time. Whenever we find things on the web or videos or anything that could help us, we send the links to each other and it really helps.