HW: A) Read pp. 39-42 and 45-8 in articles packet.
B) Afterwards, look back over all the articles weâve read. Â Decide which article to quote and respond to for your Essay 1 (draft due next Wed). Â Post a quotation & response from that article.
C) Post your description of using an app, imitating the way Sherry Turkle describes âTinderâ (notes on this exercise re-posted below).
Look at Turkleâs detailed description of how the app âTinderâ is used on p. 27. Â Using a similar level of detail, write a description of an app that you use regularly and/or have had significant experiences on. Â How does the app work? How does it affect the way you connect (or donât connect) with other people? How does it affect how you think and feel?
Usually I find myself on Multiple Social Media apps on my Free Time, However one app I find myself frequently on a lot more than others Is Snap chat . One Particular reason I have a better experience with snap chat because I look at it as not only an experience I’m sharing with others with what’s going on In my life when I upload video stories but I also get to experience what goes on with other snap chat freinds and what they upload . The year 2016 Is actually when I first discovered the app. At first I felt like it was pointless having a snap chat in my opinion because of how closed minded i was due to the fact I used Instagram and Facebook more often. Well let’s Just say Friends and Family forced me Into making an account just to give it a try . So as I made one and began using It  I begun to find myself liking the app. I started discovering the face filters , bitmoji (of your self) voice audio changes, and celebrity clone filters that the app uses I took It has an experience of expressing and having fun with other viewers In different Variety of ways . Technically speaking I would even say that Snap chat has also Influenced both Instagram and Facebook as far as both apps updating 15 second videos and using bitmoji and sharing the same similar experiences for their app . That makes me look at Snap chat differently In a good way because of the Influence they’ve given the two most popular apps also  I really just connect and have good times on the app and i’m grateful for friends and family for pushing me to using it.
SnapChat is a mobile phone app that we (all phone users) have on both android and iPhone. It sends a photo or a video to someone that last up to 10 seconds, but has been recently been updated a few months back , being able to take photos or videos that last even longer. Videos/Pictures are able to be saved in your camera roll or snap chat memories. In order to take a video you need to hold down the circle that’s in the mid lower part of your screen, as for a photo you just press it once. There are multiple filters you can use, if you hold any part of the screen they will appear. There are many types of filters, for example the doggy filter, the one that makes fems look like they have eyelashes, perhaps the one that you can put someone else face on yours because you look like crap etc etc. Next step is to post your video if you didn’t decide to save. The people that can watch your videos are the people you add by username or snap code, which is manly your “friends”, acquaintance, or even for people that don’t like you but watch your story anyways because their big fans. Even though I use this app frequently, what I dislike about snapchat is that its a opp. I don’t like opps but snapchat decides to snitch on you apparently when you take a screenshot of what someone else posted or in messages. When texting on snap, you have to swipes left to go to messages and then swipe left again on the person you would like to text or respond too, the app notifies the other person who you are texting that you are “typing” and when the message is received of course. You will then have the option to save the message or leave it unsaved because they can only be viewed once. If you sent a picture in the conversation, snap will show the other person in the conversation that you saved it to your cameral roll on just saved on the conversation. My experiences on snap brought me to move in silence. I don’t like anyone to know what I’m doing in my personal life because its no ones business, so what I post is are videos manly to make someone laugh or just put a smile on their face because I’m so goofy so I feel that should be expressed in a positive way. It makes me connect with other people who watch my story because people text me that they watch my story for entertainment, no cocky Beep. I’m just naturally stupid boi.
I find myself in the mist of a generation where we all use technology in our daily lives. Some Apps like Snap chat, Tinder, Facebook and others makes connections within humanity easier. For instance, most of our youth have access to all social media accounts no matter the difference of your device or phone. I use snap chat, it works in a way that you the user can add people or other users around you, which they call it “Quick Add”, it also allows users add people through their contacts and snap code. Snap code is when another user scans the image of the other user’s account, in other way one can also just type in the username of a friend or another user to add them on Snap chat. Furthermore, it allows me the user make videos for less than 10 seconds with different filter and also take pictures. Which can be edited on snap chat, no need for an App to edit your pictures. Some people I know, through snap chat gets the chance to go on a date, but one thing is that, the reaction or the energy that is being used to chat someone on snap chat or any social media is different from the personal appearance conversation. We the millennial’s, its easy to chat or ask someone out for a date through social medias but physically the movement or the expression of the body when asking someone out takes a lot of effort. Firstly, you have to make sure you smell good and have nice clothes on, some people end up changing their wardrobe, whiles other summarize love quotes or emotional words that will make them attached to their dates.
I sometimes feel like I’m really lucky to be alive in this generation, because you could connect with people from all this apps on your phone like that’s crazy. Its like a futuristic movie, and you are living in it. For instant, Snapchat is a great app. It has a lot functions like, you could add people from just taking a picture of someones user name or you could just add them by putting their username on search box. And its kinda psychotic how you could tell where your friends are on the map too. But I guess if you want to spy on someone you could with this app. And with this app you could add people from your contacts and your mutual friends. With this app you could do alot of things. Like, call, face time, text and send videos. And its simple and easy for everyone. Specially it has filters you could use to spice some conversations up. The filter thing was so poping that other famous social media started copying them but its not the same. I would recommend this app to everyone because of that.
Sometimes when there isn’t much to do, I tend to surf the mobile app, “Instagram” on my phone. Instagram isn’t as popular as the other mobile app called Snapchat, but it definitely does distract your mind and make you focus on the pictures you scroll through. For instance, Instagram was recently updated to create Instagram stories. A lot of people thought Instagram was blatantly copying Snapchat, which Instagram admitted they were but people started to use Instagram stories and update their lives on the app just like how they would do with Snapchat. You can also post pictures and videos, and share what’s going on in your life to your followers. You can also scroll through your explorer’s page and look at different pictures and videos that interest you, because every account has different pics/videos in their explorer page, depending on the activities and passions they enjoy watching. I believe that’s one of the biggest reasons people are attached to the app when they’re using it. They most likely are on the app because they are continuing to scroll down their explorer page and watch whatever interests them, so they can’t take their eyes off the entertaining pictures and videos. To add on, the explorer page doesn’t have a limit, you can continue to scroll until your hands start to cramp up.
B). I decided to pick a quote from The Empathy Gap. The quote is “Digital culture threatens our capacity for spontaneous talk, and perhaps even more importantly, it undermines our ability to understand the value of talk.”
C). An app that I find myself using regularly is Instagram. The app works by creating your own account which contains a profile picture and a bio space where you can write whatever you desire. Once the account is made you can decide if you want your account to be public or private. Meaning that if it’s public anyone around the world can look at your pictures, follows, and followers. If it’s private and someone wants to follows you they would have to request it and then you can decide if you want them to follow you by clicking accept or decline. On this app you can post whatever pictures you want, and then the people who follow you will most likely like the picture by double tapping it. Using this app you can like any picture you want and can also comment on it. If you swipe left you will see that there is a section where you can message people privately. Instagram also has a feature where you can post a video or picture for only 24 hours and it will get deleted once the 24 hours is up. Instagram affects the way I connect with people because sometimes I won’t see or get in contact with someone for months but I can still see what they are up too when they post pictures or videos. Instagram sometimes affects what I think because I know that Instagram is just social media, what I mean by this is that people can pretend to be someone they aren’t. Someone can be depressed in real life but on Instagram they will pretend like everything is perfect just to put on a show and not look weak in front of everyone.
Snapchat is an app that I frequently use on a daily basis. This app Snapchat was made as an alternative to send messages to friends in family in a form of a picture. I use the app to send messages to my friends. Snapchat allows what is known as a streak. The streak made when you and your friend sends a picture to each other everyday. The streak is kept by sending each other pictures on a daily basis. It affects the way you see and talk to people. By sending a “snap” you send a picture of you at the current time. It makes you feel like you’ve seen the person already. Without snapchat you would’t have seen the person at all. The story option is where it has an affect on you feel and think. When one of our friends takes a photo and posts it on their story anyone that is added to that person can see what they posted. When you see that your friend is somewhere far away and they are having fun without you it has an affect. You feel left out or you can feel like your more connected to them in a way.
B) In The Empathy Gap by Sherry Turkle, her main argument is that there has been “a 40 percent decline in the markers for empathy among college students -a drop that researchers link to the new presence of digital communications” (Turkle, 31). However, our they digital communications are just a side effect. The true cause is the design of social media sites. Successful social media sites are carefully curated to keep you on the site as long as possible and reward us for doing so. For example, Snapchat rewards people with a streak for sending a Snap to a friend over the course of a couple of days. This is an ingenious way to encourage daily use with a social stimulus while punishing by inconsistent use by losing said streak.
So by designing apps that support digital communication rather than face to face communication, we as a society lose the ability to empathize.
C) Discord is the equivalent of your average group chat app like Messanger with the only exception being that Discord is geared towards gamers. The app lets you see what everyone is playing and even allow you seamlessly talk to them via voice chat; without impacting the game’s performance or audio quality. The app defaults to a dark theme, the preferred look for late night MOBA grinds. Each person can create up to 100 servers, each server holds up to 500 text or voice channels, and each server has no theoretical limit to the number of members that can join. Typically, you would boot up any game and eventually you would enter a lobby of close friends who want you to join their Discord. They would let you know by copy-pasting the same Discord link for you to click and join. Each Discord server is different, but they all consist of a “general channel” for everyday banter and a “voice channel” for in-game voice chat. Even though most modern games have a voice chat feature, people would instead use Discord. Once you add someone as a friend in-game, you only get to communicate with the person if they’re actively playing that specific game. But if you add someone on Discord, you get to talk to them no matter what they are doing. Thus, befriending the person behind the in-game character. While you’re in a server, you have more options than your everyday messaging apps. Discords make it possible you create or add existing “bots” to your server. “Bots” are automated scripts that are added like regular people. However, they run programs within the server that range from photo manipulations to cryptocurrency predictions. Some creative members of the Discord community created an RPG game that you can play in the text chat while talking to other people!
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Once you open the app Snapchat, you see whateverâs on the other end of your screen. Double tap that screen and you may see an unpleasant view of yourself. Swipe right and thereâs a list of people who youâve communicated with. I see my friend Aisaâs username with a red box underneath her half-inch âprofileâ. I tap the profile and a picture of her from 2:30 am doing homework appears. I send her a picture of my face so she wonât forget what I look like, but I only allow her to see it for 5 seconds because itâs 8am and I am not living up to my potential. Another red box is on my screen with the username âamanieeeâ whoâs my cousin from North Carolina. She sends me a picture of some grass in some place wherever she is. I choose not to respond. Swipe once to the left and youâre back at the camera option, once more left and you can tap to view the various âstoriesâ produced by people. You can view those your friends posted or ones Snapchat provides- which are usually garbage. USUALLY. I see thathoemaven has posted a story and I tap to view because weâre friends. I guess I only view my friendsâ stories because I want to know what theyâre doing without me.
I donât really care about the majority of the people Iâm friends with on the app and it makes me question why I have the app in the first place. Snapchat makes me feel like a 3rd grader on the inside and Britney Spears on the outside.
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On a daily basis, I find myself using an app called Discord. Itâs not a very famous or common app that many people know because the majority who use it are gamers. This app is similar to Skype where you can start a voice chat with someone and message them there. But this app was created on the basis of Skype and Teamspeak. It was precisely targeted towards gamers by adding both elements into one. Discord allows you and your friends to create and join a server for free. Â Within the servers and the group chats that youâre able to create, you can make text channels or group chats. These text channels allows you to send messages to each other while the message history will be saved from the beginning. Most people message each other for a casual talk but like other platforms people use it to send memes. I personally use it when I play games with my friends and when we casually talk online. The first app most people open is either Snapchat, Instagram , Facebook and Twitter. My first app that I always open first is Discord. My connection to using Discord is that I use it to keep up with my friends while I enjoy talking and playing games with my friends.
B)The quote that I’ll be using is “I saw a generation settle into a new way of dealing with silence from other people: namely, deny that it hurts and put aside your understanding that if you do it to others it will hurt them as well. We tolerate we are not being shown empathy. And then we tolerate that we don’t show it to others” Simply Turkle is saying that when others don’t show us care we have to accept it which leads to us not caring for others.
C) The app that I use the most on my phone is Reddit. Reddit is an app where you can create and subscribe communities called subreddits. Subreddits are forums dedicated to a single topic. Users can post pictures, videos, gifs, or just text. People who post on this app get points called karma when their posts or comments get upvoted. Karma is basically worthless and users on the app make jokes by calling it “useless internet points” but it looks good on a profile and makes some people feel good. When I open the app i’m greeted with my homepage where all the recent popular content from the subreddits i’m subscribed to is there for me to easily access. From there I can tap on a link, upvote, downvote, share it, and maybe leave a comment. One thing that I love about Reddit is how you can really get a sense of it feeling like a community as you browse. Each subreddit has users engaging in conversations, creating content for the stuff they like, and making inside jokes that only people in those communities would understand. The app is a great way for people to engage with others who have similar interests.