marnmon

Credits: A man in a woman’s world Photo:M. Periasamy Today’s reflection will be talking about the works of Anna (from #UOSM2033) and Isaac. Both of them gave 2 very good examples which helped me to gain new perspectives of the advantages and disadvantages of open access. Firstly, Anna mentioned about the app Spotify, which is an app that I personally use every single day. Continue reading →

Credits: Image Source If I were to ask you: “What is the Internet for?”, what would you say? I would say something like this – “Well, the internet is a platform for people to share ideas and experiences about the topics that interests them.”. That is essentially what the internet is for isn’t it? To share. However, because of copyright laws, sharing is often in conflict with the unrestricted access and reuse of information online (a.k.a Open Access). Continue reading →

Credits: Image Source Yet another topic down. With every topic, there is much to learn, and this is what I have learnt from my classmates Daphne and Yu Ting. Daphne talked about a teacher Krista Hodges who complained about her students on twitter using the words “hate” and “ugly”. She was not fired and simply deleted all of her social media accounts. Continue reading →

Credits: Stephanie Mcmillan There are so many ethical issues out there regarding social media. Many of them come from the ignorance of the people using social media itself – us. How often do we really consider the consequences of what happens after we press the share button? The internet live stats website actually has a live counter that shows us the total number of internet users in the world (currently at about 3 billion) and how it is still constantly increasing by the minute. Continue reading →

Credits: via Fumaga #truestory We are all about to venture into Topic 4! But before that happens, it’s time to do yet another reflection! :) At the end of this topic, I still highly stand my ground that CONSISTENCY and AUTHENTICITY is key when it comes to creating a good profile. Employers prefer looking at profiles which have credibility and that are easy to identify with. Continue reading →

What makes us stand out from the 5.4 million other Singaporeans out there? They may not all be fighting with us for the same jobs, but in such a competitive country such as ours, what can we do in order to be that ‘outstanding’ one? Credits: themetapicture According to the Oxford Dictionary (2014), the definition of authentic is, “Of undisputed origin and not a copy; genuine”.  Sounds easy but yet so difficult to achieve. Continue reading →

Credits: Troll Face via Wikia Everyday is a day to learn something new. For topic 2, I was able to gain new insights into having multiple online identities with the help of Zoe and Sherdale.  Both of them talked about the importance of privacy, which was what I believed was one of the major issues in having multiple online identities. Continue reading →

Credits : privacymemes via Tumblr Online identity is the same as our birthnames, except that it is something that we chose ourselves and is used to identity ourselves when we go online. As you can tell from the title, my online identity is marnmon, as it is the username that I go by online, including twitter and instagram. Let’s first start with the pros and cons that I personally feel are present in having multiple online identities. Continue reading →

Hello there my dear reader! Please don’t laugh at my title  but I decided that I kind of needed to give reflections a “makeover” since I’ll be doing many reflections throughout the entire course and it would be a little mundane to keep naming it reflection just by itself. Continue reading →