Mission Accomplished!

Wow,

I can’t believe that this is our last Blog experience for this class. It seems as thought the term had flown bye once again. This was my first Blog experience for a class or for any reason at that. It was kind of cool checking out other student pages and so forth. Ths being my first time creating a Blog I thought it could have been better if I would have put up a picture of myself for others to see. If I had time I might have even tried to personalize my site as well. But, with that being said I did not have enough time to really put allot of energy into my Blog. As of know in my life I feel as though I do not have enough time to maintain this or another Blog. With school and work taking on most of my time, I can’t imagine sitting in front of a computer and typing out a weekly or daily Blog.

I thought it was a clever way to incorporate the class and class work into a Blog experience. Like I had said before I really have not done something like this for a class. I liked the fact that this was something different than the same old thing for homework.

I was a bit confused having the work to completed on Tuesdays at noon, and having that next week for the other assignment to be completed. There were times that I would get confused because all of my other homework would be due on Sunday and this would be due on Tuesday. But once I got used to it, it was no big deal and it became part of my routine.

I thought the Postman book was interesting and did not enjoy the Wood and Smith book to much. I like where Postman took his thought and ideas about Technology and its place in our society. I do feel that technology can ruin us and that we need to be careful about how much we let technology control our lives. In our culture in America and other parts of the world Technology rules and we become complaisant to it and rely on it and act like we can’t survive without it.

Overall, I enjoyed the class and thought it shined a light on some things that I never really had thought about. I have no real complaints about the course because complaining gets you no where.

Thanks to all for reading my Blog.

Jared

I Love Cyberslacking

For this weeks Blog assignment about the internet and all of the various ways to misuse it I decided to look into “cyberslacking”. Cyberslacking is basically the use of the internet at work for personal use and benefit. We all know it happens all over the place and some of us have probably done it at one time or another.

I am no stranger to the world of cyberslacking. I use some of my time on the computer for personal use such as e-mail, and or searching for information non work related. I have a job where I work at the front desk of a health club and am able to use the internet for school purposes when I am not to busy. But sometimes I and others use it for our own personal use. I also have friends that seem to be way into using the internet for their personal use at work. Sometimes they send me tens of e-mails about random crap and I often wonder how they have so much time to screw off on the internet while at work.

On the article that I had read it is estimated that using the internet for personal reasons is setting U.S. companies back $178 billion annually. That high number equals out to be about 5,000 per employee. That is a lot of wasted time and money that employers are dishing out with zero productivity coming out. The article explained that surveyed managers on average estimated that each employee is using the Internet for personal use for 5.9 hours a week, the survey said. So after multiplying these numbers by the average American hourly salary, researchers came up with the figure of $178 billion.
I agree that something needs to be done to stop all the time wasted for personal use on the computer. On the other hand I have always thought it to be no big deal if one is to use the internet to check something or get some information briefly for personal use. It all depends on the amount of time spent during the personal use. I also think that if the employees are on break checking the internet should be no big deal. I think that if employers invested in some kind of software or monitored the internet use that the misuse would stop or at least slow down.
I think that in our culture we all expect instant gratification. We do not want to wait until we get home or off work to check up on personal things on the internet. I also think that our culture works too much and to hard thus wanting to have a break at work for personal internet use. The internet is kind of like an escape for us as we had further discussed earlier in the term. I can’t find any real way to relate this weeks reading with the Blog, but I can from previous readings such as the internet for an escape from our daily grind of work. It all makes sense as the earlier readings from Postman and Wood and Smith explained.

Yay