Blog assignment 3

The book I have chosen to read is Gossip Girl – All I want is everything by Cecily von Ziegesar. The story takes place in New York where you follow a couple of friends from the upper class that lives on the Upper East Side and their new acquaintances from Brooklyn that doesn’t live a life in luxury as they do.

Gossip Girl is the name of a gossip blog that you can find online and/or send text messages to the teenagers. It contains gossips about the main characters and no one knows who is behind Gossip Girl. They can also share gossips with Gossip Girl so that it will be spread to everybody else by texting or send an email to Gossip Girl.

For this third blog assignment have I chosen to focus on this gossip blog. Because with Internet, mobile phones, blogs and so on, there are also some negative sides that we are not always thinking about. It’s a very easy and effective way of spreading gossip about other people. With just a few keystrokes you can spread incorrect information that can be read by so many people, something that maybe the writers don’t think about.

Actually, I have an example of this from the reality. Just before I became a student at the university there was a blog like this. The focus was on the people that were taking part of the student life and everything that it involves, on my faculty. Nobody knew who were behind the blog, but the author or authors managed to have an incredible track of what happened at the party.

Internet can also be a helpful tool in many ways and most people use it daily. Nowadays it is sometimes used as a complement during the recruitment process. The person you hoped to be your future boss discovers photos of you partying on Facebook and then your chance to get the job is equal to zero. Of course you have to keep in mind that this book is only fiction and this is not something that is common. But that we post photos of ourselves from a party is something that is, unfortunately, very common today and most teenagers don’t think about the consequences that this could lead to.

The golden rule – “One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself” fits perfect with spreading gossip about other people as well. But we have to consider the other aspect as well. Be careful about what you write about yourself as well, because it could lead to bigger consequences than you can imagine.

Blog assignment 2

What Annie Leonard is talking about is something that I think most people knows about and, hopefully, they agree with her most of the time. The thing that cought me the most was when she talked about natural resources and the environment.

We are running out of resources and then we take somebody else's - the third world's. No one is responsible for this since the government and corporations think that people doesn't own the resources.

And how many people knows that pillows contains neurotoxins? We sleep for about 8 hours per day and expose ourselves for this every single day. Toxic also leaves factories as a byproduct or pollution and what are we doing then? We simply move factories overseas and pollute someone else's land.

Now it's time that we wake up and take responsible for our actions! Our children and grandchildren are going to have the same planet as we have and we form the world that they are going to live in. We have to unite and work together for a sustainable future!

Blog assignment 1

We are raised to seek for success in our lives. It follows us from our childhood and the way our parents are raising us and through our whole life. It can vary from passing a simple test when you’re 7 years old to get in to your dream education or have the job that you always wanted. And all those things are about success and not to fail.

But unfortunately that’s not the case for all of us. Some of us fails, some more than others. You may have learning difficulties and failed on the test, didn’t get in to your dream education or didn’t get that job that you always wanted. Or maybe you get fired from it, as this article is all about.

I simply can’t agree with the authors. It seems like they want some kind of super human that always succeed, always promote innovations and give energy to the organization. But I doubt that most of the people are like that. We have our flaws and the authors don’t seem to tolerate this. Of course, they explain it as it is characteristics that you can find among some people, but maybe there’s for a reason? Maybe the victims feels unsecure and thinks everybody else are better than themselves. It’s just a person with a bad confidence and who will get a better confidence after you get fired? I know I won’t.

So give people a chance. Don’t classify people and search for a “super human”, because you will not find someone. We all have weakness and strengths and we need to help each other to find our strengths and use them. That doesn’t mean firing people!