Movie/Blogging

In class we just finished watching the movie Julia and Julia.  It was a okay movie.  It tells the story of a woman who models after her idol Julia Childs who is a female cook who beat the odds, and proved to everyone she could cook and spent 8 years writing and perfecting her cook book before it was published.  Julia wrote a blog everyday about how she would cook Julia's cooking and so many people looked and followed her blog.  It goes to show you that even the tiniest stubject, like cooking, can catch so many peoples attention.  It was almost like people would look foward to her blogs each day, almost as if they knew her personally. 
We also looked at a site which showed how bosses look up and find their employees blogs.  Sometimes, if the boss finds something that they do not like in the blog, they fire their employee.  Personally, I find this stupid.  Yes, not everything a person writes about or talks about in blogs are politically correct, but isn't that what blogs are about?  Blogs are an opportunity for people such as you and me to just write and express themselfs and how they feel.  No one said that they have to follow certain rules.  In some cases yes, maybe the bosses had a 'good reason' for firing their emplyees, but alot of the time they don't seem too.  Blogs give a person freedom to speak and express how they feel.  If that's true, why is that right even being taking for granted now?

Social Media Video

The video it'sself was actually very surprising.  I've known that Facebook is growing and it is a huge and is still growing.  Everyone seems to always be updating their twitter, facebook, myspace and blogs and chance they get.  It's surprising how so many people use facebook.  Its also surprising that if facebook was a country it would be the 4th largest.  It just shows how many people are using these different social networks to communicate with others. 
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We now live in times where our whole world bacially revolves around media and technology.  Thats not a bad thing, but if we base everything we do on media and technology, doesn't that take away some of the values that we were once taught all those years ago?  There are not as many books being bought anymore, or CD's.  Nw people can just download the newest music or books to theyre computer or even just to their Ipods.  It's funny how only a few years ago people would run out and buy the newest CD's that came out, now, with a click of the mouse, they can have the music downloaded to their Ipods, Without leaving the own comfort of their home, yet alone getting up from their computer desk.  Is this how it is going to be?  Or are there even more social technological surprises still to come for the world that we live in?