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Wiki Exercise #1: Screen Time
editI would like to share The World in Photos This Week gallery from the magazine Foreign Policy. I think is a great compilation of the most important international issues happened within the last seven days, with a great quality and a useful context. They also have variety, freshness, and currency. The most interesting ones go from Iranian schoolgirls holding portraits of Iran's supreme leaders, during a celebration of the 37th anniversary of the day that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile in France; to an international Shakespeare troupe performing Hamlet at a theater in the Calais refugee camp in France. All happened this week and the Foreign Policy gallery shows us a window to see a little bit more of the world we have around us, from which we miss a lot of things everyday.
February 2016
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Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 18:37, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
Wiki exercise #2: Online visibility
editI consider I am pretty visible online, as I have an account in all the main social media networks: Facebook,Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin and Google. There I have some privacy settings, to restrict what people see about me. In the case of Facebook, I start by not accepting people I don't know personally offline. My profile pictures are public, but everything else I post in the network is only available for friends I already have. Apart from that, I think that my public profile is much more visible than what I actually know, because almost anyone can access to my information, or save my pictures.
In the case of Instagram, it's much less private for me, also because I don't have there very private information or stuff. Anyone can follow me, and I can decide whether to follow back. Anyone can see my pictures, even if we are not friends or followers. I also can see the pictures of people I am not following in the case they don't have their profile private. As in Facebook, in my Instagram I post things about the people I am with, and about the places I've been.
Linkedin is more professional, anyone is able to see my profile, but I recieve a notification of who has seen it. I have it for a professional interest, and I can control exactly what people see about me. It is only about work experience, education and interests but it is a good network for connecting people of the same business.
I don't use Twitter very much. I think that is very useful for the interests that I have (news, current affairs, etc). It is also helpful for connecting wellknown or famous people. The privacy is restricted to what you tweet or retweet, because that information is public for everyone. Your visibility depends on your amount of followers and the impact you can have over them.
To sum up, the kind of information that is available about me online is my name, where am I from, where I live and study, what are my main interests and who my friends and family are. I use to post pictures of events, good moments, trips, beautiful landscapes...etc. I have chosen to share it with my friends, or people I know offline, and my family or other contacts. I think that that information about me should be accesible only for the people I care something about, not strangers. Even though, I follow people (in Twitter for example), who I don't know for real. Finally, I think that only a little of the information that is about me online it can be controled by me. It is said that "what you don't want people to know or spread, don't post it on the Internet", because you never know who can finally see you and the things about you that are online.
WikiExercise #3: Information Overload!
editThe digital age has a lot of advantages, like plenty of information, access to any issue that happens around the world, facts, theories, declarations, pictures, videos, documents, reports or articles. Just with the social media you can be informed of what is occurring anywhere. But this is also something that can collapse our brains, as we are receiving lots of information. It seems that Google has all the answers, but we can start looking for something very specific and we can end finding a lot of information about many items related. We have all this access not only in the devices of our daily life (televisions, computers, street advertising...etc), but also in our pockets, with our smart phones. I think that is not possible to deal with all that amount of information available, instead of that, what we do is search or pay attention on what we have more interest, and skip other distractions. However, we could be pretty distracted anywhere. Most times happened to me that I was looking for something to do a research and I got distracted by the social media or other things in the web. This "information overload", as it is said by Martha Ross in a post of the San Jose Mercury News, it is one of the many concerns of Daniel Levitin, a McGill university professor of psychology and behavioral neuroscience. He lays out in his new book, "The Organized Mind" that we're bombarded daily with the informational equivalent of 175 newspapers and have a half-million books' worth of words stored on our computers. But the 21st-century brain can't take all that in, he says. The professor explains that our brains want to pay attention to only one thing at a time, and trying to absorb so much information comes at a cost: The neurons are living cells that become fatigued if we work them too hard.
Taking this into account, I decide not try to arrive to everything, but to what I think it is interesting or that I think I need to know. I consider that is the only way to not get mad by the huge amount of headlines and inputs that we can receive through all the media and advertising.