Everyday, I get one day closer to the day when I will graduate and leave the safety of high school. After high school is when we reach the real world, where we are on our own, and we make our own decisions. We have to decide what we want to do with our lives, where we want to go to college, and how we're going to get there. For me, this is quite frightening because these decisions will affect my future life. Although I find it frightening, I have set my eyes on what I would like to do. I hope to go into the medical field and hopefully become a doctor one day.
Ever since I was little, I have always had the dream of becoming a doctor. Although over the years the type of doctor that I want to be has changed. When I was younger I looked up to my grandmother, who was a children's physician. I would always wear her doctor's coat and pretend to give my toys check ups. As I've grown older, I've learned more about the field and the impact that it has on people. The recent findings in medicine and new doctors that have been experimenting in the past couple of years have changed my family's life. The improvements in technology and techniques used in medicine are improved everyday. Because of the influence that medicine has had on my life, I would like to take part in it one day. I would like to take part in helping save people's lives, so they can live on to help other people. I want to one day learn and understand how we work and why medical miracles and mysteries can exists. “The Top 10 Reasons We Deleted Your Comment” is a good list of reasons why The New York Times deletes comments on articles and posts on their website. I believe that this list is a value tool that people who comment on post should follow because unnecessary comments discourage people to read and comment on the posts. This is probably why this article was published and why The New York Times does this because they don't want to lose business and lower their reputation. Although their may be some negative and unnecessary comments, there are also many positive comments, that can influence and have effects on the author of the post. One example was a podcast on NPR "From Commenter To Columnist: The Atlantic's 'Cynic', where a college student was given a great opportunity because of the influence his and others comments had.
I wrote a comment on "Do You Pay Attention to Nutrition Labels on Food?", and I also commented on my three of my class mates' blogs: Rachel , Maddie, and Andrew. A common website, that many people go on daily, is YouTube. Viewers are allowed to comment and like videos based on their own opinions. Comments on videos can be liked, disliked, or flagged. I decided to read a couple comments on Jennifer Lawrence winning Best Actress in 2013 at the Oscars. I chose this on in particular because for some people who should have won Best Actress is a controversial topic. I also chose this video because it captures her falling while up the stairs, and people could have made a variety of comments on that incident. So people comment about how she did an amazing job in her recent movies Silver Linings Playbook and The Hunger Games, and how they were wondering she would win Best Supporting Actress this year. Others posted harsher comments, one being "she has nice boobs, that is why she won, the Academy doesn't give a shit about acting no more". This was them saying, that they don't believe that she desired the award, or they wanted someone else to win. Digital Footprints, unlike regular footprints, don't go away or disappear. They follow you through life, and anyone who searches you on google or bing can see it. In some ways, I think this is kind of scary because people can find personal information about you, which could end of being dangerous. However, it could also be a good thing because colleges or businesses would also be able to see your academic and athletic achievements, when they search for you. After I searching myself on Google, I found many links to stats, videos, and records from past gymnastics competitions and track and field meets. There was also a link to my Pininterest and Goodreads account, but there was no link to my Facebook or Instagram because both of those accounts are private. I think that this search showed that I have participated in a number of athletic events in the past, and I like to share my ideas with other people.
"College Prospects are Being Watched on Facebook and Twitter" and "37 Percent Of Employers Use Facebook To Pre-Screen Applicants" and "This is How a Woman's Offensive Tweet Became the World's Top Story" are all examples of what the internet and social networking sites are used for. Once something is on the internet, it never goes away, even if you delete. Those words you typed on a social network could have been seen, liked, retweeted, shared, or screenshot before you had the chance to delete them. Two of these articles describe how now a days agencies, businesses, and colleges uses social networking sites to "get to learn" the people they are recruiting because most people show who they truly are behind a keyboard because they are not face to face with someone. This is why what you post on a social network could make or break your future, which to be is quite frightening because you could tweet on thing, like Justine Sacco, and your life could change after a click of a button. I believe because of the world we live in today, people should learn to think before they do anything because everything leaves a mark that could come back and haunt. You should try to be the same person off and online, so that your peers and others who maybe be recruiting you for college or a job know the real you. Below, is a word cloud I created of how I would like to be known. |