Online sharing has reached a new high with everyone and anyone writing about themselves, their children, or their new relationships. The internet has created a new platform for people to talk about themselves and everything about them. It's funny how we never have talked about ourselves in such a way in face to face conversations but manage to online. I think that the internet provides a platform for autonomy and an "everything goes" mentality. We aren't fearful of what we post because the backlash is not directly in our face and we feel a sense of safety behind the screen. We feel invincible when we cant see what is attacking us, although it hurts it is usually nothing we pay attention to. I have never felt like oversharing in terms of pictures or any physical representation of myself, but I do love my twitter account. I mostly share funny things that happen to me or my opinions, but I have never been one to post numerous pictures. Even more, I find mommy blogs as more than disturbing most of the time. I understand that you need to learn from others, but more often than not they put more than we need to know about their children. I feel that they are often overexposing their children and that these blogs are setting up unrealistic expectations of motherhood. These mothers only share what they want and what looks best in their lives at the time, not always the truth. I think that these blogs are ways for women to decompress, which is nice, but they are often not the most realistic. I work at a daycare and a few of the mother's upkeep blogs. Upon reading some of these, it's apparent they share things that are onesided and often untrue. In my experience, they have painted pictures of my coworkers and me that are harmful and hurtful. Often these statements are not even true. Also, given the small area in which we live, people know who we are. It is truly annoying. But anyway, these blogs and other social media sites provide a place for people to often overshare and fabricate their lives. I hate to be cynical about social media as I use it and like it, but people tend to go overboard.
Overall, I believe our project worked out well and incorporated the technology into our presentation. The site itself helped us due to its broad uses like sharing. We were able to cite our references directly to the site in which we found them by Pinterest's tool of embedding. In addition, we could pin examples to further justify our arguments and findings. It was easy for us to switch back and forth to complete our portions of the project as well with the easy surfing of the site. We had a little bit of trouble with including our SlideShare slides as the links didn't want to work. I feel as though the internet connection was a bit of a hindrance not necessarily Pinterest itself. I feel as though we could have maybe organized our Boards and Pins a little bit better as they were somewhat unorganized, but I feel it was not a major issue to our project. In addition, I think we could have done a better job of highlighting negative consequences. I feel like I may have not accurately...
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