Tuesday, November 25, 2008

superbowl

Who do you think will win the superbowl this year? There are a lot of teams that could win. I think the Jets are going to win the superbowl this year.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Who is better? Avenged Sevenfold or Atreyu?

Avenged Sevenfold and Atreyu are both metal core bands that come from orange county, California. They have many similarities. They both started out in the early 2000's and both started out with very heavy albums. However, they started as underground. they became more popular with their second album, which for both bands in considered their best album. also, the drummer in both bands sing. The drummer from Atreyu sings all the choruses, and the drummer from avenged sevenfold sings here and there. they also both released their fourth album about a year ago and have constantly been touring. They even toured together. Atreyu stopped screaming on their fourth album and avenged sevenfold stopped on their third. Both of their most recent albums have a more mainstream taste. I believe that avenged sevenfold has better screaming, whereas Atreyu has a more brutal scream. I personally think that Avenged sevenfold is the better band because they have a tremendous amount of talent lyrically and musically but they have a great balance of heavy and light songs and they like to experiment with some new sounds, which i like. Please post if you know these two bands and no matter what your opinion.

12th grade

I think that school in NJ should end at 11th grade. My biggest problem with senior year is that by the time you are a senior if you haven't failed any classes the only class that you have to take four years is english. this would be beneficial for everyone becouse you could get an early jump start on college or whatever you are doing and it would cost the state less money which would lower taxes. I think if you have failed classes then you should have to go back to highschool just to complete the classes you failed. 12th grade just costs tax payers money and makes students take classes they have already taken or ones really similar to ones that they have already taken.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Pros and Cons to Communicating Online

Online Communication is a very important way of communicating during this age. There are so many ways to communicate via the internet. Some of these options are e-mail, chat rooms, blogs, instant messaging. The e-mail is one of the first forms of communication found on the internet. In my opinion E-mails are also one of the most efficient forms of communication. E-mails are great as they sent messages instantly and you even have your own personalized inbox page. E-mail is also more organized then other forms of communication as you can create and delete folders to make your inbox more controlled. The bad thing about e-mail is that you when you send a message to a person you do not always get it back immediately as the other person you are sending the e-mail to also has to be on. Instant messaging is an additional way of communicating on the internet. Instant messaging entail two people with two made up names and they talk exchanging messages back and forth. The good thing about instant messaging is that there is a conversation between to people and the messages are sent fast. The bad thing about IM is that you cannot save messages as once you exit out of an IM then all the messages are deleted. Another form of communication involved with the internet is chatrooms. A chatroom is like instant messaging but it has more than to people involved in conversation. Since more people can be at the conversation there can be a lot more opinions on a topic. The bad thing about chatrooms is that there are more people involved with a conversation so more people can find out personal things about you and you might not even know them. The last way of communicating online is by using blog. This way of communication is very useful when you need to have an answer to a question or you have an opinion. Once you type the question or your opinion people respond to your comment with their own ideas. These comments give more opinion in your answer so you don’t always have a one-sided answer. Blogs are excellent when you need opinion and when your unsure about something. The down side on blogs is that anyone can see what you say in them and anyone can comment so people may leave rude comments. Blogs are not as secure as e-mail and other ways of communicating on the internet. All these ways of communicating over the internet may seem convenient but are not as safe as talking to people in person.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Communicating Online

Online communication has developed from the time computers were invented not so long ago. You can communicate on IM, Facebook, Myspace, chatrooms and many other online "community's". First is IM. There are many pros and cons to this one thing alone. On IM you can talk to your friends online without having to call them, and you can do that on the computer while doing other things as well, like listening to music or going online to look up certain things. There are also many safety things on IM as well. There are ways that someones screen name can get around to people, and if an unknown person IMs you, there is something that you can block so that they cannot contact you or bug you. Second is Facebook and Myspace, which are in many ways the same. You can load pictures, talk to friends, comment on friends pictures and express yourself in many ways. This can be very fun, but you have to be careful. You should sent your profile to private so that only your friends can see your profile and your pictures, this is the safest way to be online. You should also not accept friends that you don't know, that can be very unsafe. There are also many chatrooms that you can go into, based on topics, including movies, books, your likes and dislikes, etc. When you go into these chatrooms, you should not give away any personal information because you can never be sure who is on the internet. If you are safe and are cautious on the internet, you should not have a problem.

Communicating Online

Online communication has increased over the past few years in many ways. However there are many pros and cons of online communication. The most popular ways to communicate online is AIM, emailing and chat rooms. Pros of using online communication is that emailing is much easier then writing a letter and waiting for it to get mailed. By emailing one another you know that they got the email right away and just have to wait for them to read it. Instant messaging is an easy way to communicate because you send messages to another simultaneously in seconds. A con is that it can be dangerous tho because anyone can IM you and talk to you. Even if you dont know them. Chat rooms are an easy way for you to talk to a lot of people at once about your opinion on one topic. A new way for teens to chat is on facebook. Its a social network when teenagers like highschool students, and college students and all communicate and belong to their own network. They can send private messages, wall posts, and even chat. To be able to communicate with one another they have to be friend requested. This way strangers can not contact you unless you accept them.

Pros and Cons to Comminicating Online

There are various ways to communicate online, such as email, chat rooms, IM, and blogs. These online communications are popular among teens, family members, friends, and businesses. Many Websites such as Yahoo! Messenger, Google, AOL, Facebook, and MySpace host these functions and enable a user to communicate online.

Email is the most popular form of communication online. I also feel that it is the safest because one does not need to use the same display name as their real name making it so that the user is completely anonymous to unwanted people and organizations. Some pros to Email is that it is safe, delivers messages quickly, has a low cost, easy accessibility due to the fact that one can usually access his or her email on numerous computer, it is convenient because it can be read when ever convenient to the reader and sent whenever it is convenient to the sender, and finally email can be easily managed. Some cons of email is that the sender does not always get the immediate response they are looking for. Also, they require a more lengthy response and therefore, more time and thought than a text or an IM. Spam messages and advertisements is another con.

Chat rooms are another form of online communication. I feel that they are the most dangerous form of online communication that there is. It is unsafe due to the fact that you never know who is behind the computer or screen name that you are talking to. The person can lie about their name and age and you will never know. Also, on chat rooms personal information can be sent out for anyone in the chat room can see. There are not many rules or regulations to make chat rooms safer. However, there are some pros to this form of communication. For one they are usually specialized so that all participants are given a chance to talk about a particular topic and find out how other people feel about it too. Also, it provides an immediate response to your comments so you do not have to wait and check again later. It is an easy way to get to know people and stay in touch with old friends.

Instant messaging is a private way to communicate one on one with a person over the Internet. I feel that it is a safe way to stay in touch with others if one is smart about their actions. Some pros are that it is private so that no one but the person you are talking to can see your information. It is also and immediate way to carry on a conversation with a person and can be over and extended period of time or a short as two minutes. However, some cons would be like chat rooms one can never really be sure of who they are talking to and unlike chats you can only have a conversation with one person at a time.

A blog is an Internet diary in which one can post a message expressing his or her feelings on a particular topic. Therefore, some pros would be that you can express your views online for others to see without them having to know who you are because your display name does not have to be your real name. Also, you can read other peoples views on the same topic as well. However, some cons are that you do not get immediate responses and everyone can see what you post.

Overall, I feel that online communications is a fast and easy way to communicate with other people and proves to very convenient. However, I also feel that it can be very dangerous if it is used incorrectly.