Feedbacks!

So my reply was... 

I went over to other blogs to see what they thought and I decided to leave a reply. Well, I had to for this course and I enjoyed reading other people's thoughts on the topic. It usually was the same thing I thought. Anyways, here are the links. 

http://mwzellers.blogspot.ca/2013/01/too-much-attention.html#comment-form

Denzel's post on Paparazzi.

http://section01only.blogspot.ca/2013/05/social-media-good-bad-and-not-so-private.html#comment-form

Paulo's post on Social Media.

http://markanthonyblog.blogspot.ca/2013/05/dangers-of-twitter.html#comment-form

Mark Anthony's post on Twitter.

And that is all, I guess. Stay Beautiful.

Hey! You can't wear that.

How small do I have to be?

With this kind of topic, I know this blog post will turn into a rant. Honestly, how can Michael Jeffries think like this? I should explain who this Mr. Jeffries is. Well, he is the CEO of a store called Abercrombie and Fitch, the store who everyone knows as the 'petite' store. They haven't sold clothes sized larger than an XL. Anyways, this guy says that he doesn't want to sell clothes that big because he doesn't want over-sized people shop at his stores and just the kids who are 'cool' and has a lot of friends. Since when was XL over-sized?

Here are 3 questions that will expand my thoughts on the previous paragraph.

1.     How do you feel about Michael Jeffries’ view on who should wear Abercrombie and Fitch’s  clothing?

2.     Is it fair/equitable to target a particular group of teens?  Why or why not?

3.     How does this contribute to our already biased perception of what beauty is?

1. First of all, no one is ever not-cool enough to shop at a store. Everyone is beautiful and a store like Abercrombie and Fitch shouldn't be telling people that if they're not lower than an XL that you're not skinny enough for the store. I am frustrated at Mike Jeffries because there are a lot of teenagers who already goes through the insecurity stages of their life and they don't need a CEO of a store to put them down even more. He's so inconsiderate to me because of how many teenagers he probably brought down. Honestly, he's just going to lose costumers because he made himself look bad. Everyone is beautiful in their own way and no one should tell them they're not.

2. Every store should sell clothes in every size. I think they should all sell all up to an XXL. No one should be able to say, "I can't go to that store because they don't have anything in my size." It's such a put down to know that you might be too big to wear clothes from a store. I think its so unfair to target a particular group of teens. Especially choosing to target those who are 'cool' instead of those who already don't feel good about themselves. Everyone should feel good about their body and a store shouldn't make them feel like they're not. It is so unfair to only sell to a particular group because they're discriminating all the rest. 

3. In our society today, teens already go through depression and anxiety because they are put down from everyone around them. The media is a big influence on this; they show too many pictures of women and men's bodies that can never be achieved by a normal teenager because they Photoshop every picture they advertise. What I'm trying to say is that the beauty they show is how the body looks like and that's not at all what beauty is about. Beauty is found inside the heart not on the appearance of a person. Now Abercrombie and Fitch is contributing to what the society already perceives the world. I just find it so stupidly annoying that people think they're not beautiful anymore because they look down on themselves. 

And remember to always feel beautiful because you are. Even Fat Amy feels good about her body. Stay beautiful! 

Social Media – The Good, The Bad and the 'Not-So-Private'

My Social Status

Let me talk about the internet. To be more exact, the social networks that everyone is now a part of. I mean, everyone has access to everything. I'd say 90% of my school is a member in the social networking sites, even teachers! With social networks, it is easy to post anything you'd like. Just make sure that you won't mind it being found 5 years from now. Privacy is the most important thing in social networking and it's the most neglected. Before you post, think twice and see if you wouldn't mind it being saved and manipulated.

Here are 3 questions that will expand my thoughts on the previous paragraph.

1. Are you a member of a social networking website?  Why or why not?
2. Have you checked your privacy settings lately?  Who can see the information that you put out there?
3. What kind of information are you allowing others to have access to?  Have you thought about this before?
4. What kinds of things are safe to post?  Unsafe?  List some unsafe information that you should keep to yourself and not allow others to see online.
5. How can we become more responsible users of social network websites?  Why is this so important?

1. Social networks are a great way to communicate with people anywhere in the world. I am in the world of Facebook; this is to communicate with my relatives in the Philippines, Instagram; this is to share pictures of my life to whoever and I use to be on Tumblr; a world of freedom and thoughts and imagination. 

2. There would be presentations in school where a person would talk about safety online. Honestly, this is when I get reminded to check my privacy settings. It's different for every social networks. My privacy settings are to my friends only, but that's for Facebook. Instagram, anyone can see my photos. I haven't got the time to change the privacy settings yet.

3.I don't really let everyone look at everything on my profile for Facebook. I fixed my privacy settings where only my friends could see it. But honestly, I feel like anyone can see it. That's the thing about the online world, anyone has access to your stuff. I think about my safety and my privacy on websites like Facebook, but I've stopped using it. I don't want to be on it anymore because I usually don't think about what I post. It's safer that I'm off it. Good thing I'm not a member of the Twitter world. 

4. There's only somethings that are safe to post or allow for other people to see. Like for example, on Facebook, they want you to update everything on your profile. When they ask you to do this, it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to fill it out. You could keep almost everything private. I'd say what are safe to post, but it's easier to say the unsafe things. Personal information is the most private thing, so like address, phone number, even saying where you attend school is dangerous. Also some photos should not be shared and updating your location at the moment (issue mostly for Twitter members.)

5. People need to be aware of what they do online because anyone can get access to it. It can be saved and manipulated. Being responsible online can help you and maybe even save you. It's dangerous and you wouldn't really want some pedophile to be saving pictures of you on his computer and then he gets updates of you in twitter of what you're doing and where you're going. Now doesn't that sound scary? Well, yeah because it is! Be careful of what you post online and think twice before posting anything. 

Should I post this? Hmmm....