Finale

Here comes the final blog about digital new media for me. I would like to express my deepest thanks for you to spend time to read my post and giving comments :)

Honestly, I am really not a big fans of blogging. The class provides me a insight of blogging and knowing more about interesting stuffs of blogging. People blog a lot so as to share their creative ideas, comments, daily life, feelings and emotions to others. It's a good space of expression. However, since my friends also not usually do blogging, we normally just put them on Facebook.

During this two months, i read some interesting post that my classmates posted. And we discussed about different aspect and point of views about the digital media. Sarella's Meme: Creative idea starts as sparkle is one of my favorite post.

Apart from my classmates blog, i also found a very nice fashion blog with nice photos. Shirley, one of my old schoolmates have started a blog with her passion to fashion and gathering style pictures from her friends in Hong Kong( She is currently in UK) and makes comments on them. The blog named The Haunted which means stylish people were hunted.

At the end of every post, she states the deadline of submission of styling pictures and make a little notice about the next episode.I appreciate the idea and her effort of doing so. Please take a look if you are fans of vintage lover.

Shirley's blog is inspiring, but it's still not my favorite fashion blog at the moment. Wendy's Lookbook, an awesome fashion blog really catches my eye even at the first sight. This lady that i don't know set up a really nice blog with a lot of information and her comments and choice of fashions. Every post she post are featured with nice photos and detailed descriptions. She even created videos for the blog.

My favorite post from my blog: Timeline. Hate it or Love it?

Some of my comments: Serella's blog, Field's blog

Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy it.

Connected or Disconnected?

With the development of technology, people are literally connected all over the world. We don't need a day to wait for the newspaper got printed to know what happened in the other part of the world, but just a few seconds with simple "clicks" with your finger.

In the past, people needs days or even months to send and receive letters from their friends or families to know what's happening when they are away. But now, it don't even takes you a minute to type a whatsapp message or update your status on Facebook. Technology shorten our communication time gap but does it really make people actually connected and shorten the distance in between?

Maybe but also may not be! There are a lot of people talking about this, like Agrawal, the blogger, wrote about how technology changes human relationships. Actually he is quite positive about this.

For me, i do agree technology connects people that we might not know. Wikipedia connects people with the same interests or scholars with the same field to gather to write the best post. How about your friends? The people you are actually known them for a while like your ex-schoolmates, ex-colleagues that you used to talk to them face-to-face? These people mostly are now just my friends on Facebook but not actually friends. We only "communicate" when Facebook notifies my whenever it's his's or her's birthday today. Sometimes I feel really sad about this. Technology is actually creating the social distance between people.

Please just treasure those friends still meet you up for dinner, for a movie or whatever. Cause they are actually real friends but not only "technologically friends".

Hey, lets meet up!

LOL

One night, my family and i was talking about the top hit Korean song, Gangnam Style. I was surprise that my uncles and aunts all known about this.

Someone asked a question what's "PSY" (the name on the singer) means? However, nobody could answer, even i don't know as well. All of a sudden i think about a joke i read online about those abbreviation that we might not know.

After i finish the joke, nobody was laughing! OMG! I am so shock! And i realize they don't know the real meaning of LOL, but than believe it means "Lots of Love".

According to Wikipedia, "LOL, an abbreviation for laughing out loud,or laugh out loud, is a common element of Internet slang."

Hey ladies and gentlemen, please make sure you understand the correct meaning before sending the others a text message or writing anything on your Facebook. Otherwise, it will just make the others LOL.  lol

Timeline. Hate it or Love it?

The recent change of the Facebook layout to timeline makes most of my friends not very happy about that. But why people dislike it? And who are benefits from the Timeline feature?

The new layout of Facebook allows users to track down all the old post without scrolling and scrolling down the web but just clicking the year on the navigation bar on the right. This makes lost of people feel uncomfortable of the stalk-like feeling when your friends are looking at your Facebook. With the timeline features, Facebook gather your post in categories, such as Likes and Places, which allows one to know what pages you liked and where have you been since your Facebook account is created. Again, this makes people feel bad when new friends are able to know their past.

Apart form the new feature, people criticize the packed layout of Timeline. Two columns is designed to show posts according to the time sequence, however, the left and right makes people hard to follow. Sometimes it does confuse me where should i start to look at and whether the left one come first or the one on the right?

Other than that, the Cover Photo area creates some trouble to individuals users, at least for me. lol

Which picture i should choose to be my cover? Something that i like or something that can represent me? Or what else? This always makes me feel so annoyed.

But than I think the Cover Photo area provides a very good platform for Pages users, the Companies. This large eye-catching and centered area allows them to post their most recent promotion and message to their customer. This would probably attracts most of the attention from people who surf their pages, indeed a very good digital marketing tactic.

My Digital Life

Wake up - Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram  on iphone

Breakfast - Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram  on iphone

On mtr - Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram  on iphone

At school - Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram  on iphone

Toilet - Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram  on iphone

Lunch - Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram  on iphone

Hanging out with friends - Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram  on iphone

Dinner - Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram  on iphone

On bed - Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram  on iphone

Is that you?

For me, it's absolutely a yes. A girl can never leave her iphone alone lol

Since when digital tools and social networking plays a major role in my life? Seriously, I don't have any ideas. But i am sure many of you are having a "Facebook-and-Whatsapp Life" everyday same as me.

What if we suddenly lost all of this? Have you ever think about it?