Parts of project for group trailor

Please join my group on facebook. I decided to use a photo of the group i created on facebook to show how people communicate on the site and for them to share their experiences with social networking sites in general...

Final Research Essay

I am not sure why my original posting of this blog did not appear, but here it is again.

Here is my final essay for my research paper

Creative Gallery ideas

As of right now, I don't know exactly what I am going to be doing for my creative gallery. I may create a group on Facebook about how the site itself has changed the way we communicate. The interesting part is that it would be discussing communication on the site through the mediums I have discussed in my essay. I may post videos of my friends using facebook and other sites like it to the group on facebook. Take pictures of all the groups that come up under a certain search and put them on the group. I have a general direction that I wanna go in, I just don't know if it would make any sense if I tried to describe it.

Research Essay

Here is a link to my essay on google docs.


I have already finished my rough draft, but I am sure that there are going to be modifications. I like how I discuss that we have used these sites as a surrogate source for friendship.

Authors on Youtube

The great thing about Youtube is that you can share videos with everyone. Anything that you find remotely interesting, funny, or something you created yourself can have an audience. People from all walks of life can post whatever they like on Youtube. Where Youtube differs from social networking sites is that, while an author on Facebook can post pictures and alter their status, on Youtube, authors can be much more creative with multimedia tools. You can see the author if they place themselves in the video, or you can get a more descriptive point of view from a video on Youtube than you can a photo or a comment or status on a Facebook account. I feel like there are more creative or artistics options available to authors on Youtube. I think the reason why Youtube is called Youtube is because you, the individual post videos and watch them much like you would on tv or "the tube".

My diagram

I know this is a pretty bad diagram, but I was having issues!

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What to use in my essay

Because my project has to do with how our relationships with other people have changed since the advent of social networking sites, I will be using the book "Here Comes Everybody" by Clay Shirkey to discuss social media.

Using the book will allow me to give more information as to how wide spread communication has become due to advances in technology. There was a time when people actually wrote to one another, called, and visited each other.

Now, we instant message, change our statuses, and web-video conference with each other, all of these things that would never have been possible if social networking did not exist. "Here Comes Everybody" will also allow me to distinguish what makes a multimedia writer, and his work gives good examples about how we mass communicate with others.

Based on the work I have done so far, there seems to be much debate on whether or not social networking is beneficial or if it will eventually be the cause that ends our physical relationships with one another. These sites have become a replacement for a real life relationship, be it friendly or romantic, our relationships are forever changed because of this advent in technology.

A connection with no connection at all.