Thursday, October 27, 2011

FOUR

in case you were wondering, this is the fourth time i've written this. it won't post every time i try and it also will not copy paste so i can save it. ... it's been fun.

I learned a lot from social media week. The one thing I took away from this the most was that you need to be really careful about everything you do online. Everything you say or post can come back to you. Now that i'm older and going to start looking for serious jobs soon, what I post will play a larger factor into my job offers.
I felt fine about my social media. I chose Twitter. I think that my generation has an advantage at technological services because we've grown up with technology. Twitter was very easy for me to learn and get used to and I am still using it.
Social media can help me reach my goals because it helps you reach out to people who are interested in the same things as you. If I were to tweet about a job I wanted and someone who was involved in that were to see it, it could easily connect me to that person.

The Mexico article was the most surprising to me. Mostly everyone I know uses Facebook and Twitter for social purposes. But it is really nice to see that they can be used for something good too.
The biggest insight I gained was from the article that compared the elevator and Twitter. It really is important to watch what you say and post. It was weird to see the encounters broken down like that. First impressions really are everything.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

THREE

Through the MBTI I found out that I am an ENTP. Which is: Extraversion. Intuition. Thinking. Perceiving. I think that this fits me very well, because during class when we got to pick what we thought we were this is what I picked. I do focus my attention on the outside world. I take information in by seeing patterns and the big picture. I make decisions on logic. And I most certainly like a flexible spontaneous approach to life. I am very independent and out going. I was not really surprised by my results. They describe me pretty well. I think that because I knew what I was going to get I do not need to change too much about how I'm learning and doing things. The way I learn is through doing and by finding meaning behind facts. I like to have a very flexible schedule. I already do all of this in my day to day life, so therefore, I think that I did not really learn much from doing this MBTI experiment. It really just reconfirmed what I already thought/knew.