social media still running the world?

http://www.socialworktoday.com/archive/051313p10.shtml

Social Media and Interpersonal Communication

If you read my earlier post to my blog you read about my despise of the over-usage of social media in today's society, especially when used in such a negative way. This article just "proves my point" for lack of better terms. As we become more and more social on social media sites we become less and less social in our real life relationships. We learn to hide behind a screen instead of "manning up" and being who we truly are. Social media has given us an outlet to be someone else; it has given us another world that we get to control and manipulate. We can control how we look on our social medias and how we are perceived. We can sit and think on our words before they are "spoken", we choose who we follow, who follows us, who we befriend and who we shut out. It is a second world in every sense of the phrase but in this world, we are the dictators. So we find ourselves controlling our perfect little make believe worlds and slowly and quietly losing touch with our beautifully broken lives everyday. We choose fake perfection, false hope and false promises over a world at our finger tips. We need to wake up, get a grip and understand that what we create on our social medias is a fairy tale that isn't coming true and that although our everyday lives are not perfect they are perfect in their quirkiness of each goofy little day. 

I encourage you all to watch the video in my link below and choose life over fairy tales

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/01/prince-ea-video_n_5916354.html

go out and see the world & never stop exploring

who really runs the world?

http://www.mcbeestrategic.com/social-media-in-2013-the-influence-and-impact-of-the-individual-on-digital-communications/

SOCIAL MEDIA IN 2013: THE INFLUENCE AND IMPACT OF THE INDIVIDUAL ON DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONs

Can I start by saying, wow! What staggering numbers this article unveiled; 650,000 Facebook shares, 100,000 tweets, and 48 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every second! What are people doing with their lives? I will admit that I do have four forms of social networking including facebook, instagram, twitter, and pinterest. I will also admit that I waste very little time on them. As I get older I am learning the importance of real life connections and relationships. I have grown to despise the fact that in most everyday situations we can't have a conversation with someone without a phone being in their hand and constantly buzzing and making noises. While I do have such a negative opinion of social media I do still believe that it can be such a powerful tool when used in a correct manner; that's the tricky part, the mannerly thing. We have grown to be a society that is out to get our own and do what benefits us even if that means cutting down others and sadly we are seeing that on so many different social medias. But imagine if we used social sites and social  medias for positive things, to build others up, and to encourage each other. We could change the world (literally)! As this article states, "A single individual’s opinion can potentially influence thousands of people." It is our job to choose whether social media and social sites continue to be looked down upon or looked at as a powerful tool used to do good in the world. It is my personal vote that we put down our phones, look up, and enjoy all the beauty and abundance of life surrounding us, take hold of that and live a stupendous life!

notice the little dots on the horizon, yea those are my friends and I totally unplugged from the world and just loving life, the sunset, and each other

Where am I and what the heck am I giggling about?

Where am I and what the heck am I giggling about? My name is Kennedy Reeves, I am a sophomore at Henderson State University in Arkansas studying early childhood development. I grew up in the small, "backwoods" town of Mena, Arkansas with my family of five; my parents, an older sister and a younger brother. As a kid I enjoyed doing just about anything outdoors, I climbed trees like it was going out of style, I built forts like it was my job, and played any kind of sport like it was my desire to be a professional athlete one day. But then life got a little bit faster paced and this awful thing called school started. I'm going to be upfront with my utter hatred that I had (and still have) for school. I have never once in my life woke up and gotten excited that I get to go sit in a desk and be forced to learn, or as we college students say "memorize", information that I most likely will never use again. So now you're probably questioning why I want to be a teacher; well the answer is simple...sort of. I get to be with kids day in and day out, all day long and that makes my heart happy. I have always had a great love for kids and a desire to work with them to ensure that they achieve all that they want to achieve. So here I am at Henderson, which I chose for its' outstanding education program, just trying to laugh my way through each day, hence this blog. I am a generally positive person; I try to find the positive in all situations no matter how bad so I tend to laugh...alot. I don't let things bother me too much and that's my secret. Never let life get you down because while today may be awful, you still have tomorrow to look forward to. So I hope that my posts about my daily life as a goofy, fun loving college student and all my awkward and not so awkward encounters can bring a giggle or two to your day.