Social Media On The News

Tonight while watching the news they were covering the story of how Deron Williams was traded and how you can tweet about it or comment on Facebook.  They read some of the tweets and the facebook comments on air.  I thought it was very odd for the news to read tweets and Facebook comments on the air, but  I guess it can be viewed as a good way to get opinions of many people without going out on the streets and talking to random people. 

Conversations

A video on YouTube entitled How To Get Someone To Stop Talking To You instructs that the best way to get someone to stop talking to you is to give them a scared/discusted look.  Don't take the look off your face until they walk away.  Dont say anything, don't move.  It is guaranteed to work. 

Well that might work but it is horrible communication.  If you don't want to talk to someone then politely exit the conversation.

Inappropriate Questions

A guy does a YouTube show and I watched one of the episodes. It is entitled Lady Gaga Tampon Song!!! Justin Bieber Abortion - Glee- &I Drop My Pants.  Its kind of a new report where his viewers tell him what they want him to report on and he does. It had a lot of random things, hence the title, but the part I want to talk about is about Justin Bieber.  He is on the cover of Rolling Stones and in the interview inside the magazine it said that the interviewer asked Bieber what his views are on abortion and rape. To paraphrase the reporter, Bieber is 17, why would the interviewer ask him about his views on abortion and rape?  And I agree!  Those are very inappropriate subjects to talk about with a 17-year old boy.  The interviewer should've asked questions relative to the age of the interviewee!

Online Dating

I watched a video on YouTube entitled Online Dating= Blumpkins!?  This video was kind of weird but it was about a girl that was chatting with a man online.  It showed how meaning can be perceived differently. The guy would say something a little odd but the girl didn't see it as odd.  She was naive and couldn't understand the meaning behind the guy's words...and emoticons.

Girl Needs a Job

A Youtube video I watched the other day is entitled 5 Year Old Needs A Job Before Getting Married.  In this video a 5-year old girl explains that even if a boy begs her to marry him she will turn him down if she doesn't have a job first.  It was interesting to watch this because she has no need in thinking about marriage and yet she is very adamant about her choice.  Children are sponges.  They will soak up everything you say, good or bad.  This girl is proof of this.  Children are most likely to form the same opinions as their parents. This video shows how parents introduce and teach their cultural views to their children.

Zombie Turtle Boy!

I just watched a hilarious interview on YouTube between a reporter for KGW-TV and a young boy at a festival.  The clip is entitled "Zombie Kid Likes Turtles."  The reporter says,"I'm here with Jonathan who just got his face pained, what do you think Jonathan?" He replies, "I like turtles."  Someone put it on YouTube and MANY people have viewed it and have made their own videos like puting it to music or reenacting the clip. I found a video of a follow up interview with the boy asking why he replied that he likes turtles.  He says that he was nervous and had seen a booth with turtles and had really liked it and want to express the things he was thinking but it came out "I like turltes."

Usually when embarassing events like this interview happen and someone puts it on YouTube the people in the clip are offended and sue whoever uploaded the clip, but this boy and his family thought it was hilarious and didnt think twice about the clip.  They could,ve reacted negativley like i said, but they didnt percieve the video as a big deal.  Perception is a big part of communication and I think this family understood that whoever uploaded the clip for entertainment, not to humiliate Jonathan.  This is also a good example of what not to do in an interview!  Think before you speak! :)

"IPhones not Stones"

I watched a clip on YouTube entitled IPhones Not Stones Are Future Peace.  A reporter on infolive.tv reported that the Israeli President Shimon Peres is certain that the end of violence in the Middle East will be when the younger generations "embrace technology" saying "the new generation will use iPhones instead of stones,"  Peres wants Palestine and Israel to reach a compromise by urging Palestine to "Establish a democratic Palestinian state, based on science and technology." He states that Israel "learned that there is no contradiction between science and religion. Science can deal with physical poverty just like religion can deal with spiritual poverty."

I found this clip interesting.  In the US we are finding that some technology is corrupting the youth, but technology can improve the young generations in the Middle East. Maybe technology will give the youth an outlet for their energy, something else to occupy their time rather than fighting.  Maybe technologies like social networks will help the youth of both nations connect with each other instead of fight with each other.