SALMON! Response

So I checked through most of my classmates' blogs and many people had very interesting things to say and post, however, this post made me laugh and so I wanted to write about SALMON! First of all, I will say that I have never heard of this commercial but I found it very clever and funny. However you make some good points that the commercial does not address issues about the actual product. I do believe they are insisting that it is fresh and it is good quality so that is why people should buy it but they never say any of that directly. It is a very funny commercial and while I do not like salmon I agree that this commercial makes we want to buy from them.

The Mr. Bundle Affair

At first, while reading A Rape in Cyberspace I had the idea that online rape would not be as big of an issue as the article was going to make it out to be. however, I will say that I was surprised how much what it called online rape appeared to be cyber bullying. The case of Mr. Bundle making it appear as though the players in the virtual reality were committing acts of a sexual nature could easily be seen as bullying. It really hurt people because even online people become very interested in their reputation and keeping their characters the way they want. For something to happen to them against their will and to allow everyone else on the site to be able to see them is very much act of bullying. A big thing for the people on the site was to try and “toad” the player, which is to remove the player completely from the virtual site and erase their character. This was something that could be seen as the equality of banishing someone from a community. It eventually happened and the site eventually developed a set of rules that allowed punishments to be delt out to members who deserved it. I believe it is a real issue because it is very much a type of bullying that should not be tolerated online or anywhere. While it is not at the same level of real rape it is something that hurts people emotionally and could lead to those people being scarred in real life.

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My Yahoo Avatar

My Yahoo avatar is something I created a while ago when I noticed that people would message me. I have not used it in quite some time but I feel that it still represents me pretty well. I created it simply to show some of the things I like or am interested in so people get an idea who I am if they are messaging me or doing something else on Yahoo.

First the guy is a thing, male with brown, slightly un-kept hair in a casual button-up shirt and cargo pants. This is a pretty decent description of me so as the most personal part of the avatar it fits well its intention of letting people know about me. The background is a movie theater, which is meant to cover the fact that I love movies . . . and TV . . . and just about any form of entertainment. He used to be reading a book but when I changed the background I thought it would be weird to read a book in a movie theater. The things around me are really the only things I could find that I felt was worth mentioning about my personality. I have a cat because I have a cat and I enjoy watching all those funny cat videos online with my girlfriend. I have a bag of ‘zombie chow’ and a strangely happy robot to show some of my favorite genera of movies. The ‘zombie chow’ represents horror, more directly zombie flicks, while the robot represents science fiction in general. Those images are really just icons that I hope people might see what I was trying to say with them in the picture.

This is obviously not everything about me but for something like yahoo where I just want to have something representing some of my personality I believe this guy does the trick!

Don't bother Googling me. . . unless you want some art!

Sorry for the "later than normal" update. I had a big paper due for honors seminar and I completely forgot! :(

On to the actual article:

(Screenshot of my Google search of me, set against the backdrop of LOST!)

I can honestly say I have never Googled myself before. I have heard of people doing it but it is never anything that occurred to me while I was online. Upon doing the search I discovered how much more common my last name was. I am only on the list one time, near the bottom of the first page, and you have to click into the site before you can find me. The site is a white pages site and I am the sixth name down however, the address they have me listed under is not even the correct address.

The list mostly consists of a few other Christian Oldhams that apparently have more of a presence on the Internet than I do. If someone was looking online for information about me they could not find anything on the first page except an incorrect address. These other COs seem to be mostly artists. There are at least two painters (one paints in watercolor and the other using computer painting techniques). Plus there is a few Facebook pages but none of them are mine.

I wish I showed up on the list at all as far as a Facebook page or some other account I hold online. I guess I do not do enough where I actually use my real name for the first Google page to pick me up. I have searched quite a few pages in and still there is nothing that pertains solely to me. However, apparently my name is spawns good art cause there was many more sculptures and music recorders that I found. Granted, I have never heard of any of them so maybe their art is not so good after all! :P

The poster that always shares too much

Facebook is a great place to connect with people and post things for people to read. However, sometimes things do not need to be shared. Anyone who has a Facebook has certain kinds of posts they hate. Some people don’t like the posting of song lyrics or quotes. Others hate it when people post about absolutely nothing. I, personally, am not a big fan of the posts that ask everyone else to post the same thing on their profile. These kinds of posts can be very frustrating but sometimes people will just post too much and it can make you feel awkward or even appalled at the person.

It is surprising sometimes the things that people are willing to tell the world. There are people like that that will say just about anything about their or other’s personal lives. Most of the times this has a negative effect on how people view them. These posts, especially when they are often occurrences, make people seem very whinny and eventually everything they post will be seen as extreme pathos because they are making public such emotional things that either do not need to be public or are not important enough to warrant a post at all.

There can be times when a very emotional post can actually define a person in a  positive light. These are times when something is truly worth a emotional response but not too personal that it comes across as weird, such as when people post about an animal or member of there family being hurt or when someone is trying to provide support to someone else. However, these are normally the types of posts that are very rare because if extreme pathos posts are a norm for a person then people will begin just blocking or ignoring everything that person says. It is ok to share some personal information or have lots of pathos in a posts but it is the number of times that a person does this that defines them.