I use the internet in my job as a Jeweler to source virtually everything we need for our clients. The way we do business today is virtually nothing like it was even ten years ago. Thanks to the rapidly expanding network of vendors around the world I can find the most obscure items in minutes if need be.
At home I use twitter, FB, google+, and reddit, to browse user created content and contribute my own thoughts and creations. Via these social vehicles I can promote the University of Memphis cycling club, stay in touch with freinds, and kill time in any number of ways. I can even make extra money selling my old belongings on ebay.
I like where the discussion in this class is going and hope to learn how to better integrate with the rapidly advancing online community.
I'm fascinated by the way that Ebay promotes the empowerment of people selling their own items in ways that would not have been possible in the past. Its interesting that if you have a yard sale everything sells for a quarter but on ebay you can put out the most minute item and sell it for almost any amount and add shipping costs to it on top of that. Yet, still people discard things all the time and rush to buy more things on ebay. Its a strange progression from new in the stores to the edge of the curb to the shipping envelope. Its the yard sale elevated to an art form.
ReplyDeleteI use the internet quite a bit myself. So far, this class is really helped me realize how much I actually use it. Although I am some what of an old fashioned person, I prefer actually reading the newspaper on occasions..
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