Do people create new, different projections of themselves online; or do they stay close to face to face identities? Explain.

People do create new and or different projections of themselves. Some stay close to home. The power that the internet gives you, allows you to be whomever you want behind that keyboard or that screen. Today’s modern music mostly promotes guns sex and drugs but the image behind the videos are an example of the personas we tend to put on. Video vixens, new rappers and/or singers who promote, promote what sells. SEX! Sex sells! Parts of society who are intuned with today’s day and age, see women always altering them selves, too dark? Lighten up. Too fat? Shave it off. Butt too small, get a BBL; brazilian butt lift. The way females and males are portrayed by the media are the worse ones. Society begins to promote the disrespect men are showing women and to see women that people idolize accept the disrespect as if it is okay. This comes from the media being our morning paper, our neighborhood watch and our match makers.

Yes communication was more effective before the advent of social media. Communication is now excessively abbreviated, which is causing dilemmas in reading comprehension and pronunciation.

Social media also allows us to be whoever they want to be. Lies became the new reality. The morning news paper because social media, facebook, Instagram etc. Our memories are not as sharp because we can now take snap shots of moments and store them in these devices.

In today world we dont know how to express themselves anymore. Emojis are the new expression, we have to post how we feel in order to be heard. If it not on the “smart device”, it’s not live.

What would you like to learn from taking this course?

I am already learning that I am nor the only one who is having this issue with reading. My thinking can be narrow, and some times it is hard to open my mind to different times of thinking; especially when it doesn’t appear logical. I hope to have a better understanding of what the digital culture strives on and also what aim is for the culture.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

• Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
• Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

• Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
• What topics do you think you’ll write about?
• Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
• If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.