Bailey R Thompson

Daughter of the King of Kings ✞
Collegiate HS Graduate 23'
Proverbs 3:5

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In the Seattle Times article, Are Apps Becoming a Human Crutch, Gardner and David mention the difference between being app-enabled and app-dependent. Are we using our apps for our benefit? Or are they using us? #eme4390F23gs

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The New York Times article, Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret, mentions how each of our devices are seen as millions of dots moving around. This analogy put into perspective the futuristic society we are CURRENTLY in #eme4390F23gs

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I’m response to device location tracking, Elise Lee stated “it feels like someone is following me, personally.” Stalking someone has never been so easy as just a few clicks of a button. #eme4390F23gs

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While watching Jonathan Haidt, I found it interesting how he said he would think three times before he speaks up on his beliefs, because if he says something that offends ANYONE, they could anonymously write him up to HR. Not a trusting environment. #eme4390F23gs

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With an online church community, it allows more people to feel comfortable connecting and reaching out to the institutions in person. #eme4390F23gs

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Currently listening to Religion in the Digital Age. I find it heart warming how Facebook users started using their platforms to post prayers and pray requests, helping form relationships in digital spaces. #eme4390F23gs

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After reading How the Digital Age is Reshaping Politics, I definitely agree with Mark Ryan and how e-voting in elections may be attractive and convenient sounding, the challenges of e-voting create hesitance to begin. #eme4390F23gs

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Back online ! 24 hours went amazing, inspiring me to go without my phone more often. #eme4390S23gs

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Hey guys! The Next 24 hours I am going off the grid! Cya tomorrow morning !!! #eme4390F23gs #USFDigitalIdentity #OneDayDisconnect

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@nastia2209 Yes I agree with the simplicity of the documentary. I also thought the real life story with the family made the documentary more relatable and easier to realize the average consumer affect. #eme4390f23gs

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Insane to think Facebook (and other digital platforms) are able to trigger real world emotions and behaviors, without the user ever realizing why these behaviors are being triggered. Exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology. #eme4390F23gs

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This scene is all too familiar. Regardless if one believes that social media is bad or could be used in a healthier manner, nothing will be as meaningful and genuine face to face communication and community. #eme4390F23gs

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This system seems so dystopian and bizarre, and yet somehow it’s reality. While the humans choosing the videos for the boy to watch may not be real, and it’s actually computer systems doing the analyzing, the concept is very real and addicting. #eme4390F23gs

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“If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product” some of these companies work in a way for making money off of the time we spend as consumers. Completely different perspective to look at social media. #eme4390F23gs

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whenever Tristin Harris said “two billion people will have thoughts that they didn’t intend to have because a designer at Google said, ‘this is how motivations work’” that really put into how much we allow such little aspects of our phone and technology control us. #eme4390F23gs

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...children to think and act the same way. Which in turn leads to exclusion (sometimes created by themselves), bullying, and insecurity. Just like Boyd says, modern media cannot create any solutions, nor solve any. #eme4390F23gs

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"even preshoolers today are aware that people are judged by how they look." What type of example are we setting for our children? If we only contiue on the obvious discontent with our apperances (and factors we cant change about ourselves), we're only teaching our.. #eme4390F23gs

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"how to be pretty". These are words I would look up whenever I was in 2nd grade, in hopes of looking like the stars I would see everyday on Disney and Nickelodeon. The video "Media's Impact on Kids' Body Image" was eye-opening to the future of mental health in kids. #eme4390F23gs

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In the text, Boyd says that the self-segregated groups do not go away once teens go online. While technology does make it possible to interact with every, so does school. I agree that these self-segregated groups remain constant through real-life and online. #eme4390F23gs