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Let me be honest, as someone who is used to using SketchUp, this application threw me off a bit. Yes it was simple, sure it was fun, but I felt restricted. In SketchUp, you can use your mouse to move freely, whereas in TinkerCad, which I'm going to start calling "TC", you must use the control key to move freely. Even then it is hard to get down. If you are not using the control key, all you have is a box in the top left that controls the view, (and is quite frustrating when you're trying to look at something at an awkward angle). In SU, SketchUp, you can make whatever shape you want, in whatever direction you want. There are different tools to cut certain sections out and set them to varying heights, or remove them altogether. However, in TC, you must build using a certain shape, and you can only cut things out using certain shapes that are holes. For example if I wanted to make a big wall have a slant on one side, in SU, I would draw more lines to cut out that shape, and the lines can be anywhere they want. While in TC, if I wanted to do the same thing, I would have to find a shape that will make the side slanted, and shape it to whatever size would cut the part out. Even then, it is very complicated compared to SU. I know this isn't neccesarily a "review" on TinkerCad, but these were my first impressions. In my opinion, knowing what it is like to use Google SketchUp, I found TinkerCad to be a bit of a curveball, something I wil just have to get used to.
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Nowadays many people would say that technology is a big part of their life, some might even venture to say it's an essential part. Even now as I sit here and write this blog post, while I listen to music on the same device, with Snapchat open on my phone next to me, I realize just how "essential" technology is in my life. But that isn't necessarily all my fault. No, it isn't the users fault, it is the providers fault. If you give a mentally disturbed man a weapon and tell him to do whatever he wants with it, the outcome can only be bad. That is essentially what is happening in our society. Not only are we provided with technology, but we are encouraged to use it in school or work. The fact of the matter is we have fallen down a long well, and society is so far down we can't see the light at the top of the well. No one has any trouble blaming the users, but what they don't see is it's everyone's fault, the providers, the enforcers, and the users. I fear that we are only digging our own grave as technology grows into what it is now and what it will be in the future. "What goes around comes around" I fear one day this technology might get the best of us, and it will be our faults. Not to mention how detached this generation is from the others due to technology.
In The Wave, Mr. Ross uses language to insert some rules in the classroom, or at least that's how it starts. He develops it into a "lifestyle" for the people in the class and others in the school. He uses his language to make everyone think and act a certain way. This is much like how the pigs in Animal Farm,
mainly Squealer, use their words to persuade the other animals to believe everything's they say. The pigs took the milk and apples that all the animals worked hard for and told the animals that they needed them for their well-being. The pigs are constantly reminding the animals of how "superior" they are to the others because they can read and write. Both the pigs and Mr. Ross use their language to control a group of individuals and it seems the pigs are abusing their power. With the rise of applications like Snapchat and Twitter, Facebook seems to be well on its way out the back door. Many people would argue that Facebook has dug its own grave, while others say it’s because of all the new social media platforms. Here’s why I think Facebook has lost its edge. A few months ago Facebook tried to buy Snapchat. This seems to be a cry for help, a very desperate cry for help. The people at Facebook realized that all the young people were moving on. A New York Times writer says, “I’ve found that most of my younger relatives have graduated from high school and have deleted their accounts or whittled them down to where there is barely any personal information left” (Has Facebook Lost its Edge, par. 4). This proves that nowadays. The younger generation doesn’t use Facebook as much as it used to. So who’s going to use Facebook now, if all the young teenagers are gone? Well, from personal experience, it seems Facebook has become a place for all the grandpa’s and grandma’s to get together and trade pie recipes. Ok, maybe that’s a bit over the top, but Facebook really is crawling with old people. And us teens don’t have anything against that, it’s just that now we can’t come back to Facebook. Many of us are just too uncomfortable with the idea of virtually being “friends” with our parents, along with the star we idol, and our actual friends.”It’s not appealing having your guardian virtually breathing down your neck” especially because they do it so much in real life. (Why has Facebook lost its edge, par. 2). I understand that they want us to be safe, but a little bit of breathing room never hurt anybody. What do you do when all the young people leave your platform and you’re left with all the old people? You buy back the young people, obviously! Or at least that’s what Facebook tried, and failed to do. Facebook was so desperate, “it was willing to drop $3 billion in cash to stop the bleeding” (Bercovici, par. 1) They try to buys companies like Snapchat in hopes of looking cool and hip again, but the more and more they fail, the more and more desperate they look. Snapchat is used so much because of the people who made it that way. The only thing buying Snapchat will do is make it worse. People left Facebook for a reason, and bringing those reasons to the application we love so much might just start the world’s first war between to technologically based companies. Facebook should just accept its fate and be happy with its good run. With the rise of applications like Snapchat and Twitter, Facebook seems to be well on its way out the back door. Young people, the target audience for social media platforms, have left Facebook and moved on. With them gone, all the old people are left, and no youngster wants to come back to Facebook when it’s full of people who call them “youngsters”. And the final nail in the coffin, Facebook’s own fault, is its desperate, last ditch effort to climb to the top, by buying the new and hot applications. Facebook has dug its grave, bought a casket, arranged a funeral, and put themselves in their own coffin. The sad part is, no one will be at the funeral. Unlike Vine, no one has gotten extremely famous from Facebook, except maybe Mark Zuckerberg himself. Facebook is gone, and no force on earth can bring it back. Works Cited: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2013/11/13/facebook-wouldve-bought-snapchat-for-3-billion-in-cash-heres-why/#1fa8a35a79ed https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/has-facebook-lost-its-edge/?_r=0 https://thepressldn.wordpress.com/science-technology/why-has-facebook-lost-its-edge |
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