Chloe's Blog

According to Marc Prensky, there is a special term we can give to those born right around the creation of the internet, digital natives. These individuals are the first to exist on the internet for their whole lives, and have been the first to grown up with the internet and social media intertwined with their development. Digital immigrants on the other hand, are those that were born before the internet, and had to learn how to use it in their daily lives far later in life.  This seperation between digital natives and digital immigrants causes a native/immigrant divide in understanding and use of the internet. Natives have learned to incorporate the internet into daily life and have create different internet cultures and languages/communication styles. Digital immigrants on the other hand are much more limited with the inclusion of social media and the internet in their day to day. They also have a shallower understanding of how to use the internet and other tech.  This in ter...

A recent interpersonal relationship that has been coming together in my life is the relationships I have formed between me and my sorority sisters. I joined last spring and have gotten to know all the girls, but I am really close with a group of them.  It began in the initiating stage when we all joined over the past couple terms and got to know each other. We started to spend time together outside of chapter and found common interets to do together.  It moved to the experimenting stage when we started hanging out multiple times a week and talked about our families and backgrounds.  The relationships progressed to the intensifying stage when we started expressing that we see each other as close friends, and went to each other for support and advice. We started leaning on each other when we were going through a tough time.  We went to the integrating stage when we started driving to chapter together, going grocery shopping together, and making plans for summer trips t...

Many different factors can influence the type of affect Facebook has on an individual. These affects can be negative, like possible links to depression or they can be positive, like boosts in self-esteem.  Some factors that can cause these affects are ones relationship with themselves and their body image, the amount of time the spend online, the types of circles or relationships they build online, the communities they join, and the way they represent themselves and interact with others.  (Foy 2022) I believe that social networking sites have a responsibility to promote mental health to their users and spread awareness of the possible affects to social media use. Sites should create ads within their sites for information about mental health resources and awareness. They should also create content to post within their sites with more information and videos about how to use social media responsibly. The environments created on these sites can cause lasting affects on mental heal...

Hi! My name in Chloe Fanning and I am originally from a small town in Southern Michigan, called Plymouth. I am currently living in Corvallis, Oregon working towards my Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences bachelors degree, and I am thinking of specializing in species like fishers, martens, foxes, etc. In my free time I like to spend time with my friends and sorority sisters, and I also love to paint and create other kinds of art.