Week in Review

This week in class, we learned how to use google reader and RSS feeds. We also set up our own blogs. I would say that it was definitely a very useful week. I learned a lot of thing i didn't know existed, and i finally found out what that orange RSS symbol actually stands for! All of my news now comes to instead of me going to the news. I love my google reader and i use it all the time now.

Colleges Tracking Your Every Move

Finding out about Target x is kind of creepy in a way. Colleges know who you are, what your interests are, and things you write online before you even know if you want to apply there. This new tool should make students applying to college think twice about what you do online and how you use social media. You write one bad thing about something, and it could basically dictate the path your life will -or will not- take. In my opinion, the famous quote : "Don't judge a book by it's cover," applies here. Maybe a student was hacked and  just left their account or maybe they portray a different person online. This system colleges are adopting are not fair. You can't get to know a person through social media and Target x isn't reliable. Colleges now have the ability to basically stalk all of your online activities, and that is a very scary thought.