Days of a dying past, revolution of Social Media

     How important is social media? With today's growth of information through the use of the

internet it has made information easily accessible. With different applications, webpages, social

networks, and blogs has made it more easy than just a simple one on one person conversation to get

your points across to the general public. The use of using hashtags and twitter to get the word out

to the world has become profound.

     The use of "#askhermore Movement" has pushed the boundaries of allowing the public to get

involved in equality on the red carpet when being asked questions. On one occasion Keira Knightly

was asked, "How she balances being newly married with her career". She sharply replied with, "Are

you going to ask all the men that tonight?". At one event Jennifer Garner shared an anecdote that

reporters were more interested in hearing from her husband about Emily Ratajkowski breast from

his movie Gone Girl. Such actors as Reese Witherspoon has renewed interest on the movement

during one red carpet event by posting on her Instagram using the hashtag, saying "We are more

than our dresses,". After reading a blog from Tobi Gbile I was made aware of such a movement.

Without social media I would have never heard of such a movement.

     In "Clay Shirky: How social media can make history" he discusses how the use of Twitter spread

the information of China's May 2008 Earthquake spread like wildfire around the world. The citizens

of China were uploading pictures, taking videos, texting other people of the 7.9 magnitude

earthquake. The British news network The BBC caught wind of the earthquake from Twitter even

before China's Government was aware of it. With the use of such social networks like Twitter the

natural disaster was able to be known to the world before any type of agency was made aware of it.

     In conclusion, I feel that social media is important. Not only for a person's leisure when being

bored at home, work, school, or everyday life. It's important because when grim situations happen

you're able to push out information further than your own general society, state, nation, and

continent.

First day

First post on my new blog. So my name is Kris, I'm from originally from Bellflower, CA but I moved to Oregon for most of my life. Around the age of seventeen I moved to Arizona and stayed here until nineteen before I enlisted in the Army. My favorite quote is from an author called Carlos Ruiz Zafon, this quote is from his book Angel's Game.

"Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, history with invisible ink," said the cardinal, as he spears poison on the knife edge by the light of a candelabra.

Some of  my hobbies are reading manga, when I find a good book I'll spend hours reading. Other hobbies is traveling. I just started driving this year, so I enjoy driving the distance. My intended Major is in Information Technology, the reason being is I was a Information Technology Specialist for the Army for eight years. Right now in life, that is truly a good question. I am a father, starting school for the first time in close to a decade, had my second deployment a year ago. Something that is important to you? That question has always been asked to me over the years. After being a father for the past two years, I would have to see is that my son is the most important thing to me in this world. To see him smile and run to me yelling "daddy" is just as special as the moment I heard his first cry at birth. My life goal, very hard to honestly answer never put much thought into these kinds of questions of "self", the closet thing would have to be to honestly have a family.