Thursday, September 22, 2011

Does Facebook's change equal loss of popularity?

In the world of Facebook, a lot of its users are partial to the old, nostalgic feeling they get from the classic lay out, but from time to time there are small updates that change the look and feel of the website. A lot of the time the masses are very disgruntled about the change, but they can get over it in about three to four days. Now it seems like that may not be the case. Mark Zuckerberg (creator, founder, and CEO of Facebook) is putting his pride and joy under a fool body makeover. Recently he had some changes on the famous wall feed, (which updates you on your friend or friend's activities) which has caused one of the largest cyber upsets since My Space was sold to Justin Timberlake. This leads me to ask will his super social network keep its popularity in the upcoming months of intense change. Mark recently announced at F8 that he would be adding a volley of new apps to his social network, including on the main profile a new editable timeline seen here, http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/09/22/7898095-facebook-shows-off-new-timeline-profiles-apps-and-more . I want to see how Facebook fairs in the next few months of change.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

EL Cerrito High School, Home of the Gauchos!

My high school life was similar to most but different at the same time, i went into my high school knowing 3 people that i didn't even see a good 90% of the time. I set out to meet new people, friend hopping from place until eventually I came across a group of people that had a reputation in the school as “the dancers” I joined that group with no intentions of dancing but watching them have such a passion and love for it drove my passion. Within about a month I had been working on my “moves” per say. They quickly noticed that I had a similar passion and throughout my high school life to current times we have been striving for each of us to improve. But more on the high school side of life I can say I had a good social point and enough close friends to help when times were rough, but I never let myself get so caught up in the drama that is “high school” because I would have been too stressed to focus and graduate. My favorite year I would have to say was my senior year, I spent all of my time in the dance studio as a T.A. and friend to my dance teacher. She had many life lessons to teach that to this day I use.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

How do i speak?

I would like to say I have made my own way of speaking. Thinking back I've not only used my words differently but coupled with strong grammar and slang i have a style of speech i can use at almost any occasion.
I have my original speech from my mother, she uses professional english where she goes so as her son and growing up as a only child i started to pick it up seamlessly. After i got into the 6th grade i realized i was the only person not using slang, so I decided to pick it up. now I can say that i picked up a lot of the way I talk from my friends, also as my friends changed my speech changed, for the most part I can say that my speech has changed with every new set of friends that I have had.
When I speak I like to switch my styles in mid sentence I can be very casual and then switch to formal in the next sentence. I have heard from many people saying that i talk "weird" but i always remember there is no "right" way to speak english. I embrace my individualistic speech and don't plan on chainging it any time soon.