Kenzie Craig

Future event planner.

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Survey

For my class we have to make a survey and make people answer it. I personally hate asking people for favors, and/or asking them to fill out stuff they probably don’t have time for anyways. Because everyone has a busy life. Hopefully people will take time out of their busy day to answer my questions about their technology use, which they might lie to me to make themselves feel less addicted to their phones. *sigh* Not excited for this project.

To do this project I first need to come up with some questions, the ones I have come up with so far, aren’t very good so I really need to work on those.

Next I’m going to figure out which poor souls I shall make fill out my survey, which will probably be my co-workers, (I am a cocktail waitress) and drunk people I wait on. Maybe I will ask some of my sweet family members to do it too, because family will always be there for you.

Wish me luck!

[rubyetc]

only black or blue ink please

alternatively: place in shredder, remove results, wear as hat 

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Surveys.

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1,000 Words? You got it!

So I have finally settled on a thesis. Took me long enough (2 weeks to be exact)! "Millennials have come to rely on technology for communication, and it is effecting the way they feel about themselves and their relationships are with others"  

I've chosen this topic because every where I look, all I see is kids (millennials) on their phones, zoned into Facebook, or listening to music. Majority of them not looking up from their phones, while they are walking. This past week it was a mini break for school so me and the hubby went down to Minneapolis and stayed at a hotel in Dinky town, one morning we were sitting looking down at all the people who were just zoned into their phones (our room overlooked University Ave), it is truly fascinating at how addicted we have become to our devices.  

The research process was going good (I've finished now), there was lots of articles out there, used mostly ones that were focused on text-based and self-esteem.  

I found it most difficult was finding the words to what I wanted to say, I never wanted to say we are addicted to our devices because that just sounds negative. So I would use words like we are, engrossed, en tuned.

Overall I feel happy with the result of my paper, but I don’t want to write another 1,000 word essay anytime soon.

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Autocontrol. Vía Purple Clover

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Cellphone Addiction.

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The Start Of A Research Paper.

For a class of mine, we were asked to write a research paper for which the topic just had to do something with technology, for that the possibilities are endless. Everything now a days has to do with technology. I started to write my paper on cyber bulling and how bulling has changed over the years, but then it got too hard. I am a bit of a sensitive person. So it was hard for me to look at all of these articles, of how many young children have taken their life's due to cyber bulling. So it was on to a new topic for me!  

I finally came to the topic "Why people rely on technology to communicate with each other". The possibilities for this topic were endless, but I decided to narrow it down to a few subtopics.  

A time line of technology. 

Relationships with others and how technology effects them. 

Easier to communicate online vrs. Face to Face 

Social Anxiety (social groups, social media outlets, how it has changed over the years)

I plan on doing this project all the night before its due (I'm just kidding). But I fear that’s how much college kids look at writing papers. Just procrastinating until it is due. I plan on working on this paper every other day until I have it done, just a little bit at a time. Wish me luck!

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Writing a research paper has lots to do with reading articles and gaining knowledge from what has been previously studied.

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Professional Twitter Organizations

So lets get back to making a professional twitter, not only do you have to delete your obnoxious tweets, you have to tweet professional things. Maybe not so much, about how much you drank last night, or how much you hate your job (that has actually caused people to lose their jobs example, Justine Sacco’s, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html?_r=0 ). Professional tweets may be, a positive review of a place you just had coffee at, or an opinion on an article you just read. Tweets need to be short and sweet, because you only have 160 characters for your tweet! You should also follow professional organizations, maybe something you want to do, or you relate too. The hubby of mine, is way into playing guitar (super cute video below), so he follows all sorts of professional guitar company's and types of guitar's such as @Taylorguitar , @ultimateguitar .  

For my twitter, I'd need to follow professional organizations relating to public relations or event planning. So the following are organizations I found to be related to my future occupation: @eventpeeks , @GetKnitEvents , @Justbloomed , @nsEventplanner , @KristinBanta , and @LondonBride . All these organizatins relate to me because they are event planners, or event organizations and I want to see how they do things. How they get ready for events, what tips and guidance they can give to help other event planners. How they get customers, how they started off their business and much more.  

It's important to follow professional tweeters/organizations, and to have professional tweets if you hope to land that dream job some day. You won't be getting hired any time soon if your tweets are about drinking too much or racial slurs.

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That hubby of mine 😍😍😍

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Google

"Google that shit." That is my good friend, Emily's (photo of her and I below) favorite line ever. Any question you ask her, her response will always be "Google that shit". Vulgar, yes. But it is true, any question you ever have now a days, can be answered by asking the world wide webs, most favorite search engine, Google. I have yet to come across a question that cannot be answered by google, except when I ask my lover, where do you want to eat tonight? (*joke* relates to blog post below).   In all seriousness everything can be answered, by the all mighty google. Are you looking for a silly cat picture? Google got you. Are you looking for the book "The Adventures of Mr. Horace Hedgehog"? Google will tell you where you can buy it, what times that store is open, where the store is located and the number to call so you can speak to someone that works there.   Twenty years ago, google had just launched into cyber space. Things looked differently in 1996 on the world wide web then it does today. Not everyone had access to the internet twenty years ago, as we do today. Gradually technology has gotten more and more advanced over these years, resulting in the internet growing bigger and bigger. That leads us to present day, where you ask someone how to get to the nearest gas station, and their response is "google it".

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Left. Me! Kenzie Craig!

Right. Miss. Emily Hammer. Insta (https://www.instagram.com/mle_hammer/)

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Do you have a not so good resume? Is it on a paper? With bullet points? Black ink? If you answered yes to these questions then just give up on the job you were hoping to get, because this dude just swiped your job with his fancy resume. Check it out (link above).

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“Where do you want to eat?”

Intellectual thinking is what you think about a problem, issue or situation. You should never, rely on a person, or a computer to think for you. I know so many girls, who rely on their boyfriends to think for them! For example lets take Chuck and Trish:  

Chuck: "Where do you want to go out to eat tonight babe?"  

Trish: "Oh I don’t care wherever you want to go out to eat."  

There is the infamous circle that couples will go round and round in until they start fighting or one of them decides where to eat! (see GIF below) Everyone should have their own intellectual thoughts, in a relationship or not. The conversation could of gone a whole lot differently, if one would of wanted to go somewhere.  

Chuck: "Where do you want to go out to eat babe?"  

Trish: "I heard on the radio that Timberjack is having a special on their ribs tonight, and Alice was just there and she said they were just wonderful, lets try it out!"  

Trish is prompting her intellectual thinking by questioning Alice's statement of the ribs at the restaurant, and going to try them out herself!

[stick-to-yourself]

Make up your mind girl … what do you want ?

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A Professional Twitter?

Throughout my raunchy high school days, I always used twitter to post what crazy and childish things I was up too, but now high school days are over and its time to be an adult. So its time to clean up the old twitter. To prepare myself for making a professional twitter, I had to delete the old and immature tweets I had once let loose on the internet. To do this, I signed into tweet delete, and it deleted my thousands and thousands of old tweets. (http://www.tweetdelete.net/index.php)

After I kissed those suckers goodbye, I had to start thinking about what kind of profession I want one day. I've always hoped that I would just be able to be a stay at home mom, but in this day and age its not always the case. Financially its hard to do that. So event planning is my second choice! So I started following some professional twitter accounts. For example, London Bride, Jackie Just, Mindy Weiss and many more! These leading ladies have careers that I like too!

I am feeling very confident about this twitter project, I have always wanted to make my twitter more professional, in case future employers check me out. I am finding out things I never knew about having a professional twitter, everything from having a good picture to a good biography! Check me out sometime! @kenziecraig

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The latest Tweets from Kenzie (@kenziecraig). Third year SCSU student. Mass Communications major. Your future wedding planner. Breezy Point, MN

My new and improved professional twitter!

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The Disconnect

So I survived, I have made it twenty four hours without technology. It was not fun and I would not be recommending it to anyone in the near future. My grandma says its "good for me" but you know what? I'd like to take her candy crushing' iPad away for the day and see if she still says "its good for you". I did not like this assignment because it was hard, and I like to waste my time moseying  around on the internet. But instead of browsing the latest craigslist ads I was scrubbing the floors, cleaning the fireplace, folding laundry. Basically being Cinderella without the cute little birds flying around singing.  

The thing I missed the most, was my beloved phone and MacBook, I knew I would miss them the most. I love listening to music on these bad boys and being on social media. I almost got anxiety not having them close to me, I would finish matching socks, and I would be like "oh no!" What time is it? Am I late for work?  

My day of disconnecting was really boring, it consisted of waking up with the hubby getting him off to work (packing breakfast and to go coffee), then getting my own coffee and doing laundry, while the laundry was going, I did the dishes, and washed the floor, did another load of laundry. Then scrubbed the toilet and finally I got dressed for the day. Went to my best friends house. We tanned and talked and watched the kids. Then I went to cabin and tied up from the weekend be fore's party. Then I went to the hubby's work to give him a nice big smooch. Then I went home and did more laundry. Got ready for work and went to work at five. I worked until bar close (2:30 am) that night and was so excited when I got home and could go on my phone! It was the best reuniting feeling ever!

What I didn’t realize, I would miss, or even did I think about it too much, was my radio. I could not and did not turn on my radio for 24 hours and it sucked. I don’t drive too much though. I only drive to my best friends house (10 min), to the hubby's bar (12 min) and work (2.3 min). But I like jamming out to the radio or connecting my Bluetooth. Putting on my favorite music is one of the greatest perks of having a drivers license. On the plus side I felt like I paid more attention to the road without, my phone, and that’s probably a really good thing.

My disconnection was not only difficult for me it was difficult for my friends and family, around me. I told my best friend (the one with three kids) that I would be at her house by 1, and when I was not there at 1 she got worried. She thought something had happened to me (nothing did I was fine, just late). My boyfriend hated this project. He always encourages me to do my best in school but this was the one time he was like, "maybe you should just drop the class". He missed me a lot and hated not talking to me. My parents live in Canada and it was hard for them because I text them every morning I wake up and every evening when I go to sleep. My boyfriend ended up having to text them when we woke up and then when we went to bed.  

The only thing that really surprised me about this experience is that I thought I needed my phone or my computer to survive. It turns out that I will survive just fine without either of them. I am not saying I am going to give up my ritual of morning Facebook and coffee. I am saying it is possible to go some time away from technology.

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I should probably show you the cutest little kids you have ever seen. These are my best friend’s children. From left to right, is Lila, Damon, and Savannah.