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Blog #6: The Struggle

Marshall Rudd   Maria was concerned that Mrs. Seth would be  disappointed  in her narrative about her excuses she gave to her grade-school teacher. She thought Mrs. Seth would be not so happy about what she read because it is not ever good to lie. She kept doubting herself until Mrs. Seth  said,   “You  wrote this” and is saying this  disbelieved  and not  disappointed  at all. Maria was so happy about how Mrs. Seth was  so appreciative toward her work she kept telling her that she can succeed here. Hearing anything that makes someone happy makes Maria feel great because during her childhood  struggles  she didn’t get much appreciation from anyone and  it's  always nice to see someone get appreciated when they didn’t get much appreciation through their lifetime. Maria was always happy to know anyone who was nice to her and her life has just gotten better after her disaster of a childhood and she has met som...

Blog 5: Social Media Addiction

Marshall Rudd   The overall message of this video is saying that social media is addicting and is ruining our lives by eliminating our attention span. They are saying that the design of social media makes it addictive. They think this because of features like notification and other little things make people keep going back to their social media page. This overall message might scare some people when they use social media and might not use it anymore and this could affect some companies a lot.  Cal Newport is a professor of computer science at Georgetown University. Newport is concerned for the future generation about how their concentration could be reduced. Newport stated, “when you take large portions of your day checking social media that this can permanently reduce your capacity for concentration.” This is showing how addictive social media can be and show that social media addiction can affect you in a massive way.  Steven Kotler is a American author, journ...