How college uses and misuse social media to reach students

The link to this article: http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/20/tech/social-media/universities-social-media/index.html?hpt=hp_bn6

 This article talks about how using media to attract college students can be good and bad at times. One potential student had the experience of viewing other peoples experience at john Hopkins so she decided that it would be a good idea for her to attend the school. I wish I could have went to some website to view other students experiences with San Jose State before I made the decision to attend school here, I might have decided to attend school somewhere else. This article also talks about the misuses of social media to reach students. One professor decide to make a math music video which seems to be a bit much and I know it had to be extremely boring. Overall though I do think that it is a great idea for students to share their college experience with other students. That way people can make a good choice on where they choose to attend college.

Blogging: Self presentation and privacy

This  blogging  article basically talks about privacy issues  There are three different types of privacy levels that the author talks about in the article which are  Informational, accessibility , and expressive. Accessibility privacy has to be one of the privacy issues that I fear the most. Like wire tapping and video surveillance  type of citations are not cool. Expressive privacy was also interesting like I am sure that some people feel that they cannot say certain things or make certain comments because of the fear of how they will appear to others. All of this talk about privacy makes me think about this blog that we write for class every week. I like the fact that we can write what ever  we want to on our blogs and express our selves and know one knows who we are. Well no one knew who we were until we had to summit video blogs.