FASHIONABLY LATE WITH SARAH

A super creative app that I use is called Bitmoji. Bitmoji is your own personal emoji. Today, emojis are a huge way that people communicate through text messages. It cuts down the use of words. For example, if you want to express that you're eating a hamburger, you can just insert the hamburger emoji (🍔). Bitmoji is your personalized version, where you create an avatar that looks just like you, you can apply clothes according to what you want to wear that day, and use it through Snapchat and text messages. Bitmojis are very expressive and when you plug in your phone's keyboard, there pages of your avatar in different moods, activities, and scenarios. Here are a few examples of what my Bitmoji looks like: 

In a world where minds run free, new media is a platform for fostering creativity. People are constantly innovating and reinventing the internet, meaning that new apps and websites that serve different purposes are constantly being created. We see a lot of creativity being fostered in our younger generation, the millennials and post-millennials, or generation Z. The New York Times article "Disney Tolerates a Rap Parody of Its Critters. But Why?", details how YouTube users started 'mashup' videos, where snippets of animated movies and TV shows are edited together and usually combined with a song. Just think of it as Winnie the Pooh characters rapping to a Soulja Boy song. I know you're wondering, "How do people even think of this?" Well, considering how vast and infinite the internet is, this creativity is not all that surprising. Videos like these gain major popularity and spark inspiration for new experimental behavior on the web. Furthermore, the enhan

A virtual world is an online computer-based environment meant for users to interact in a three-dimensional world. According to Forbes, children are the most avid users of these 3-D worlds, using their accounts for social connection, entertainment, and learning. These virtual worlds ignite a world of creativity  —  Jacki Forbes, a virtual world designer, explains to Forbe. "I create a lot of art — some computer assemblage, some physical art. I also do creative writing and am working on a book that looks at the uses of virtual worlds for NASA's long duration flight missions," she states. However, virtual worlds does not indicate a perfect world. According to Health magazine online, research suggest that how you represent yourself in the virtual world may affect your behavior with people in the real world. Users become extremely "keyed" into the game and that leads to powerful imitative effects in those that wear virtual masks. Overall, I was never interested n

Twitter Vs. Blackboard: Are they all that different? Many would be thrown off by this topic, as to why Twitter is being compared to Blackboard. They're used on different platforms for different purposes (depending on who'd you ask), however, alike they create discussion activities. Twitter is a social media engine, where you "tweet" 140-character long posts discussing whatever you'd like. You can follow the pages you like, retweet, reply, and favorite tweets. Blackboard is solely an educational tool used by CUNY students and professors to connect online. Comparable to Twitter, Blackboard has the option to post questions or open discussions over any concerns or inquiries, most likely pertaining to the class at hand. Classmates and professors can respond in the discussions. Both tools have the ability to host private and/or public discussions. Blackboard has no character limit; no restrictions on how long your discussion may be. Therefore, this tool is more prac

The purpose of social networking sites is to bring people together from all parts of globe, in a kind of interaction and communication forum. Social media is ever-changing; updates with new formats, new add-ons and bug fixes, cool new filters. However, which social media format do I prefer? I visited Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn to compare. Facebook allows you to share photos, updates, and general news to your followers or those who "like" you. On Twitter, you can write a tweet comprised of 140 characters, and those tweets can be retweeted and favorited. Instagram is only for sharing photos and captions, depending on if your profile is private or public, people can "like" those photos. Although, recently Instagram has been expanding to use live videos, and posting short 10 second videos that get deleted after 24 hours. LinkedIn, I consider, to run a bit different from the before mentioned. It is specifically designed for professionals and businesses to

What runs the world? Technology. There are a plethora of uses for technology in the modern world we live in. We see it in our everyday lives; people buried into their cellphones on the subway, the moving screens at 42nd street, smart boards in the classroom. Personally, I live on my laptop, so much that I practically never turn on the flatscreen TV hanging in my room. And so does Lauren M. Holson, who mentions in her New York Times article, " I don’t need one: the major networks and many other broadcasters have made it easy to find their shows free online." Quite frankly, why even spend the money when technology has made it possible to catch up on your favorite dramas, type your paper that's due the next morning, and enjoy some online shopping on the same portable device. Technology has made many things possible. However, are the effects of technology all that great? Personally, technology has made me more disconnected with the world, in the sense that I won't just

In a world now ran by technology, its no secret that blogs and wikis highlight the effects of new media. Similarly, these two engines are used as forms of communications with the world, where people can express their ideas. These forms of websites may seem similar – used for people to write things – however, they’re used differently. According to Wikipedia, “ A wiki is a website that provides collaborative modification of its content and structure directly from the web browser .” Notably, a wiki invites anyone to edit any page within the wiki site. On the other hand, a blog is a more informal site, where the blogger creates journal or diary like entries that are time-stamped. Blogs can be very useful for businesses, teaching, and even helping lead to drug raid – reported by The New York Times. One of their articles details how a group of strangers came together to share information on a blogging website in order to remain informed on what goes on in Brooklyn. It’s an amazing concep