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Week 4 post

I am a huge music listener as I am sure everyone else in class is. Yet, before having my all time favorite music app, Spotify, the ways that I had in order to listen to music was either by the radio, burning cds with music from limewire, or recording music on a cassette tape (my god this makes me sound old AF). I know that almost everyone had to do this so they can have unlimited music playing and then later on we had the all-so-marvelous MP3 and IPod. But if you were like me, you were either too poor to buy one or had strict parents that wouldn’t buy it for you.

I had to work with my old century caveman technology in order to listen to the same song over and over again in the car. Compared to back then having spotify or any other music app is like a blessing. Not only are people open to a variety of music that they wouldn’t have been able to listen to on the radio, but they can listen to the same song as many times as they want.  Of course, that is only possible if you have a premium membership with the app which I see as a downside to our current technology. Before, if I wanted to listen to Taylor Swift’s new song over and over again all I had to do is go back on the track (on a CD of course), but now in order to do that I have to purchase a premium plan so I can have unlimited skips, no ads, and go back on songs.

New technology based apps and websites are great, but it is only great if you have some dollars to spare to have that great quality service that everyone wants. Still I like Spotify even if the ads and my limited skips irritate me to no end.

-Erika Chavez

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Week 2 Blog post

Social media are different platforms that allow people to connect with one another even if they are miles away from one another. It is a form of communication that can happen between yourself and someone that is in London or a celebrity that you admire. Social media allows people to create connections with other people that they wouldn’t normally associate with. I don’t particularly use any other sites that others might not consider as part of social media. Whether they are apps or websites, I try to use or at least know of any of the latest social media platforms. I believe that for platforms to be considered as part of social media they have to be able to have their users communicate with one another whether it is through text, images, video, or audio.

I don’t know of any sites or apps that I think should be part of social media. I mean you can text with people that are far away from you but that requires that you meet with them and exchange numbers and pay a fee for your message to be sent. So in a way I don’t think that texting is part of social media nor do I think it should be. I’m not sure if anyone else would agree but that is just my personal opinion.

-Erika Chavez