Final Touches!

Well, here it is! The final post! I know that four weeks is not a long period of time (especially for a class), but it really did fly by! I am so happy that I decided to take this class because it has given me so many new views on so many different things. At the same time, I have read so many interesting articles and videos that I most likely would have never experienced if I had not been assigned them. But I am thankful that I was. I feel enlightened on many subjects concerning technology now and have even shared them with some of my friends and family members.

While entering this last week and dwelling upon my research project, I have changed my mind on what I would like to research (of course). As I said in the last blog, I wanted to cover pedaphiles and how they have so much access to their "prey" due to the technology we have today. i.e. the show "To Catch A Predator". I did find many interesting websites on the issue but they primarily concerned of stories and I wanted other solid research that consisted of facts and that was a bit harder to find. This brings me to the topic I really chose, cyber bullying.

Research was plentiful on the topic of cyber bullying. Sad to say, it is way too common so there is soo much information that I was able to find on the topic. While researching this I found other stories and information the revolved around other dangers that people come across from using social networks, so my final FINAL topic is The Perils of Social Networking. While doing my reading, I became a little nervous because we are all on social networks in this class and can fall into many catagories of these perils so I chose the ones that I think would to pertain to our class the most. The writing was a bit tedious but I didn't mind doing it. I became so encompassed in my findings that it actually went by relatively quick for a research project.

This class was a great experience and I want to say thank you to each and every one of you, because it was a class effort and encouraged me to become more involved in class discussions from here on out. I think we can all agree that it was so beneficial to do them. I hope that everyone has a good rest of the summer and enjoys it.

I want to leave you with my final project in case you have not seen it posted in the discussion board:
http://socialnetworkingperils.weebly.com/index.html

Thanks again!