Links of blogs I have made a comment on:

Gabrielle Ann Licerio

Isabelle Aquino

Julia Vasanthan

Remi Thomas

Maurice Yeung

Response to “Hey! You Can't Wear That!”

Response to “Hey! You Can't Wear That!”

1.     How do you feel about Michael Jeffries’ view on who should wear Abercrombie and Fitch’s clothing?

In my opinion, Michael Jefferies’ view on who should wear Abercrombie is inappropriate, because everyone has the right to choose what they would like to wear, it is part of the human rights. However, not only fat people get judged and discriminated in our society, skinny people might also face these problems too. For example, I have been discriminated by my elementary classmates since I was wearing the wrong “outfit”.

2.     Is it fair/equitable to target a particular group of teens? Why or why not?

It is unfair to target a particular group of teens, because as I have mentioned, everyone deserves the right in purchasing anything according to their own wish. Company also has the responsibility to adjust their marketing plan for more than one particular group. If the target is more than one particular group, the company itself will earn more too. Since targeting more than one particular group of teens can possibly benefit for both the company and the customers, so why don’t companies think about it?

3.     How does this contribute to our already biased perception of what beauty is?

This contributes to the biased percertion of what beauty is because Jefferies openly states that being too big for a certain size is considered ugly, or fat, or non worthy to live. This gives an impression that we are never good enough for society because of how we look. And no matter how we change, because of the definition of beauty by society, we will never be able to be good enough.

Response to “On a Tweet and a Prayer...”

Response to “On a Tweet and a Prayer...”

1.     Do you think that having twitter accounts will help attract youth to take a greater role in the life of the Church?

In my opinion, I don’t think that having twitter accounts will help attract youth to take a great role in the life of the Church. The reason is that youth nowadays only focus on what they like and prefer. Even if these young kids have twitter accounts, they will possibly follow other pages instead of the Church. However, it will definitely promote the Church itself if it has a twitter account, and also more news can be updated online, which would be much more convenient.

2.     What are the benefits of having our Church leader tweet? Are there any disadvantages?

The benefits of having our Church leader tweet are the ability for us to receive announcements quickly from the Pope, and easier access to Church’s activities, and the fact that it is convenient. The disadvantages to having our Church leader tweet are some sort of displeasure from older generations, since twitter doesn’t seem to be a traditional way of communicating.

3.     Does your parish take part in the social media world? If so, please explain.

I am sorry that I am not a Catholic, so I don’t belong to any parish.

4.     Are there any other ways that the Church can encourage our youth to get more involved? Do you have any personal experiences related to this?

The Church can encourage youth to get more involved by creating more events or activities for youth who live in the same community. These events could be group activities which contains the different religious meanings as well. Even though I don’t have any personal experiences related to this, but I think this is definitely a good example to attract youth to get more involved.

Response to “Social Media – The Good, The Bad and the 'Not-So-Private'”

Response to “Social Media – The Good, The Bad and the 'Not-So-Private'”

1.     Are you a member of a social networking website? Why or why not?

I am a member of sever social networking websites. I am a member of social networking sites because it is common methods for people of today's society communicate, and help express their emotions.

2.     Have you checked your privacy settings lately? Who can see the information that you put out there?

I check my privacy quite often. For the most privacy settings, only people whom I label as ‘friends’ or ‘followers’ can see the information that I put out on the Internet. Most of my accounts are set on private, so that strangers would not be able to see any of my personal information.

3.     What kind of information are you allowing others to have access to? Have you thought about this before?

The kind of information that I allow strangers (non-friends/followers) to see is some basic information such as my name. The kind of information that I allow my friends and followers to see are things including pictures that I have taken and other personal status. I have thought about this before, especially with social networking website such as Facebook. A large amount of people in the world have access to Facebook, Facebook is public to anyone from anywhere in the world, they are able to see any posts or information about myself. This is the reason why the majority of my social networking sites are set with a private setting.

4.     What kinds of things are safe to post? Unsafe? List some unsafe information that you should keep to yourself and not allow others to see online.

Safe information to post:

• ·      Name
• ·      Gender

Unsafe information that you should keep to yourself:

• ·      Location
• ·      Any IDs
• ·      Age
• ·      Workplace or school

5.     How can we become more responsible users of social network websites? Why is this so important?

To become more responsible users of social network websites, we must think several times before posting anything on the Internet. Since pretty much all resources you post online can be copied. As people shop online, some people post private information like their credit card numbers for any purchase. If any hackers hack into their computers at this time, then these credit card numbers can possibly be stolen. People could take their credit card number and use this kind of information to actual obtain everything on the card. It is important to think before you post because once something is up. It is our responsibility to keep track of our uploaded information or other resources.