Project update for Katie C.

I’m using today’s blog post as a way to update my professor on my project.  There was not a space on Moodle to upload a document for our final presentation project update, instead of emailing a document to you, Katie, I utilized my blog.

Where is my project to date:

As of Feb 15 at 11:34 PM I deactivated my Facebook account.  At first I was not very good at updating. I had finals and readings on top of a hectic work schedule and got behind.  I knew I was slowly becoming a blogging failure when I looked at my list of items I wanted to blog about and it was  half a page long with no checkmarks to show the blog was wrote on the topic. This realization that I might be a blogging failure quickly changed my ways.  I now blog daily and have taught myself to post pictures to my blog. Next step is to learn how to import pictures so they are oriented properly on the page. I also am getting more hits with each post. I am tracking where these views come from and will report on this in my final presentation.

Next steps:

I will continue to blog. I am actually learning a lot about how to successfully put my blog “out there.” I am learning this by reading blogs by professional writers and social media experts.   I will also look to find answers on the following questions:

• With Facebook being such a big piece of people’s lives today, will I be considered anti-social for stepping away from it? (no answer on this yet)
• Will people even notice I’m gone? (no answer on this yet)
• What will I miss out on socially? Professionally? (no answer on this yet)
• Is it harder to resist Facebook because it is so readily available in our world (ads, companies, etc all utilize Facebook.) YES! More complete answer in final presentation
• In the end, what will this tell me about the influence of social media on our lives? Is just this one piece influential or is there more to it? Many ideas on this, but still need to organize and come up with what I feel is the appropriate answer.