To blog or not to blog, that is the question.

For starters I just wan't to put it out there, I didn't like doing the blogs when we first started. Notice that I said when we first started. As the semester went on I learned to like them more and more. There were some prompts that I just thought were a waste of time, and then there were others that I really enjoyed doing. As it has got later in the semester I have noticed that I have gotten lazy about blogs. I really liked going on to the class blog and reading what was due for our next class period and what not.

If had to choose between turning in our assignments in as a hard copy or posting it on the blog like we did. Well, I would definitely go with the blog. It was much easier to do that and we saved some trees. Now that I know we would have had to turn all those assignments and prompts in person if we didn't have the blog I take all the mean things I may have said in the last paragraph. Keep the blog it was much easier to use then what we would have had to do.

I liked reading other students blogs when I was having trouble with a prompt and things of that nature. For some of the prompts it was hard to really think of something new to say to everyone. So I didn't really like having to comment on each others things. Overall I am going to say the blog was a good thing to use during a writing 150 experience.

Website Analysis

The website I choose to do an analysis on was the new layout of Facebook. To begin if you look at the colors of Facebook it is simple, it uses blue, white, and a light bluish grey. The contrast is good too, there are two sides to the timeline which helps make pictures jump out more when you have a picture  on one side and no picture on the other. All the important info is gathered together in the middle of your profile in the timeline. When you look at the new Facebook layout the timeline is everything. Everything is focused on it. The color of photos and the rule of thirds changes with whose profile you are looking at. If you look at my profile I don't really do the rule of thirds or anything so mu pictures don't look all that artistic.

3/28 Prompt

Lets see the issue I mentioned in the last prompt was that I was having trouble finding a call to action or a solution to my issue. I have sense then been doing more research online by going to different online dating websites and have been trying to figure out if any of these sites have a solution incorporated into how they match people. So far there has been little successes, but I will not fail and I will keep on searching.

Well for my first effective and ineffective use of visuals rhetorics in websites I wanted to use Facebook. I feel that the newer look of Facebook on people's timelines is very effective, when compared to the old style, in getting me to use Facebook more.
Effective
1. Facebook.........https://www.facebook.com/
2. Hulu................http://www.hulu.com/
3. YouTube........http://www.youtube.com/
4. Our classes blog......http://byuwritingandrhetoric150.blogspot.com/

Ineffective
1. My Blog............http://aaronrocksblog.blogspot.com/
2. Random page I found..............http://opera.stanford.edu/fans.html
3. The really good bad webpage design website .........................http://www.jaydax.co.uk/tutorials/webdesign/badpageguide/badpgguide.html
4. Welcome to the wolds worst website............ http://www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/main.htm

Patchwriting

As a people today we may be calling what someone may view as true or a fact a myth. We have gone from something being a legend when it is called a myth, to just being something their to entertain us. I mean their is a TV show called Mythbusters, and I for one can say that show is defiantly their to entertain me.

Well I have kind of been having trouble thinking of a call of action type thing to my issue. In my paper I am addressing that deception is an issue within online dating. It is just hard to think of a piratical way to get it to stop. I mean you can't get rid of online dating.

What I learned

The very first thing I learned in class was that BYU has a iPad room. In all actuality though I learned quite a bit from class on monday. I usually have trouble researching and I usually resort to just randomly searching online for what I wasn't. Monday's class period helped me learn of much easier and more effective ways of finding what I am really looking for. Not only did I learn how to find more stuff faster, I learned how to filter what I find to better suit my needs. Looking back on monday I can't really think of things I am confused about. I am sure there are question that I still need the answer to, but as of right now I really can't think of a single thing I need answers to.

Issues Paper Proposal

      The issue that I would like to propose for my issues paper is "Online Dating." Some issues that I feel have come about from on dating sites would be: the quality of relationships, people exaggerating and lying about info, dangers of online dating, the statistics for marriage and divorce, lack of face to face interactions, and how it isolates people. As you can probably tell from all the issues I put down, my initial stances of online dating sites is that they create artificial love if anything, and that they are overall not a good thing. The Research questions that I will be using will be: What is the quality of realationships produced by online dating sites? What are the faults with online dating? What are the dangers with online dating? How our people effected when they use online dating sites?
      I have done a little research on my topic thus far, and the information that I have gotten so far has been somewhat helpful. In online dating sites people put information about themselves and then get matched to someone like themselves, but people tend to exaggerate qualities about themselves. It is more common for people to lie about things to get that girls or guy. When putting a picture of themselves online people tend to put more flattering pictures of themselves, which can be very misleading. More will say and ask to do bad things on online dating sites. There is just so much more issues with online dating sites, but those were few things that I was able to find. I haven't really been affected by this topic personally. To say the truth I was watching tv and one of those eHarmony commercials went on. I got very annoyed by this commercial and thought to myself "There is no way that online dating sites can be good." Here I am now though, proposing this topic. I guess you could say I have been affected by this topic because the commercials annoy me.

20 Issues

1. Girls need to start asking guys out on dates more (via the media)
2. Degrading morals in our modern and contemporary society
3. Effects of video games on violence
4. Video games effect on social skills
5. Affect of texting on social skills
6. Online dating sites
7. Pictures on Facebook can be misleading
8. People trying to take God out of Government
9. False Advertisements
10. 3D movies stink
11. Affects on writing brought about from texting
12. Video games
13. LDS church using media and how that is good
14. People basing their opinion on media
15. Blogging
16. Medias effect on obesity
17. Online Politics
18. Being Politically Correct
19. Everything about the media
20. Evils of evil things