Week #1: Blogs I Commented On

Commented on

Maximiliano Hidalgo Solano: https://csit155-fa22-maxh.blogspot.com

MJ Tinling: https://geekwife-mj.blogspot.com

John Paul Castillo: https://csit155-fa22jpcastillo.blogspot.com

Sarah Weisz: https://csit155-fa22-sarahweisz.blogspot.com

Week 1B: Social Media Use Today

Social media has been on the rise for a couple of years now, and has become a livelihood for some. I use social media to keep in touch with people from different chapters of my life, such as high school, college, work, travels, family, and friends. I think it is something that has become so polarized that we can post whatever we want, sometimes we don't see the damage that it causes some. 

For me personally, I enjoy using social media for personal gain. I enjoy watching funny videos, things I'm interested in, and I also have learned so many things from social media. When I'm going through a rut in my life, I've noticed that what I'm feeling and what I'm going through, others have gone through similar situations. It sounds silly, like I know I'm not the only one who's gone through crap in their life, and I could have it worse, just sometimes, knowing that that feeling will pass and someone else has been in my exact same shoes before, really opens your eyes. 

Social media has its ups and downs, just like life. People post the highs on social media, and can "FaceTune" their life in a way that they want others to perceive them as. No one posts all the negativity that's going on in their life, because they don't want people to know the negative stuff. That's why they only post the "highlight reels", so it looks like they are all that. 

Week #1A: My Blog Theme

I've always been in love with travel. Ever since I was a little girl, I knew that I wanted to experience different cultures and learn how each part of the world works in their own different ways. Travel has been a big part of my life and I wanted to incorporate it into my blog for the semester. There was a small bit of time that I even thought about becoming a travel blogger, and so I thought maybe picking a "travel" theme would help me explore that and give me more knowledge if that is something I am interested in pursuing in the later future. 

I've been to 3 countries already and 10 states. Arizona, California, Washington, Utah, Nevada, Illinois, Indiana, Hawaii, New York, and New Hampshire. Italy, UK, and France. I am blessed enough that from a young age, my parents pushed traveling and experiencing new things into my brother and I's life. I'm hoping that this blog will help me expand my curiosity on travel blogs and get an inside scope of how to go about making a successful travel blog. 

I tried to change my background photo into a photo I took on one of my travels, but I was having difficulties with finding a photo that fit the description of under 3MB. Honestly, my computer was telling me that my photos were under 3MB, so I would try them out, but then the blog website would say otherwise, which was getting extremely frustrating. I messed around with the font and the font color. I thought that "courier" font suites my personality a bit better than the default font it had chosen. Green, specifically forest green is my all time favorite color, so I wanted to add some of my favorites into my blog, in order to add some of my persona, to make it more human and relatable.