February 2011
15 posts
Who in the World Am I?
One of my favourite stories ever since I was a child was Alice in Wonderland. This is such a common fact about me that all my friends know, and it is not unknown for me to receive Alice in Wonderland themed gift.
One of the greatest lessons I learnt from the book was the need for self exploration. My favourite passages from the book describes how self exploration is a constant journey. It...
Viewer Response
Today we received an e-mail from a reader, and now follower who goes under the pseudonym gergeosam.
The e-mail read:
i read Online Dating: Friend of Foe
so now im sending you an attachment full of 2 experiences i had while trying out dating online
hope you enjoy! its a little graphic
The following is a copy of what he sent us in the attachment. Reader discretion is advised.
1. Just...
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The Reconnect welcomes you back more committed to the discovery of your media habits, and lifestyle, providing you with resources to actively participate in the project. Our recommendation this week is Don Tapscott’s Growing Up Digital and Grown Up Digital.
In order to partake in The Reconnect project we emphasize the need to understand the generation which Tapscott refers to as...
“There’s a unnecessary technology gap between young people and many of...”
– John Palfrey & Urs Gasser , from Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives
What is your response “Reconnecters” ?
E-mail us at disconnect2reconnect@gmail.com
posted by: Courtney D. Wright
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“Nothing is more romantic than when someone turns off their iPhone for the...”
– Now Magazine’s Love & Sex Survey
WatchA “Sextless” Valentines day
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Online Dating: Friend or Foe?
Finding a spouse, flirting and settling down with the right person – all made easier with just a click of a button.
Online dating websites, eHarmony, Lavalife and Plenty of fish, seem to be replacing the club scene of singles mingling.
We’ve all seen the commercials with the happy couples that claim they would have never found each other if it wasn’t for them joining a particular dating website....
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Welcome Back
Afternoon Reconnecters,
Prepare to reconnect to disconnect again, and partake in an open discussion about issues concerning the evolving digital environment. We would like to welcome you back by celebrating Valentines day together.
Valentines-less, date-less, do not worry you have us. Visit us throughout the day to find some “Reconnect” inspired Valentines pieces. As the digital...
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Mini Challenge: Meet and Greet
You may be alone this Valentines day, but does it need to be that way? With the internet we can meet someone new anywhere, anytime.
Skeptic about trying online dating or chat rooms? So are we, and with reason. With this challenge though we are enforcing the cliche “Don’t knock it until you try it.”
Now we want to make it clear that you always should be cautious about putting...
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Reconnect Re-Launch
After much consideration, several contributors have decided to re-launch “The Reconnect”, February 14, 2011.
Originally beginning as a small project for a Digital Design class at the University of Guelph-Humber, it has no become something more than a class project, or a short attempt at internet infamy. To a select few of our original members the idea to “disconnect to reconnect” has become a way...
January 2011
9 posts
Online Property
As a media studies student there is no denying that I adore internet and technology. Recently, I decided it was time to make a list of all the different accounts I have online. In addition to my e-mails, which include my University account, my hotmail account, (not including the two ones I no longer check), and my recently created G-mail, I have a lengthy list of accounts which includes:
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WatchA video from BBC news, it’s about the role that social media played in the recent protests in the Middle East.
Posted by: Mariam Matti
When this project first started I set some personal goals (aside from the challenges we presented and the ones that we are planning) for myself as far as reconnecting with old forums of communicating. I told myself that during Christmas time I would send cards to friends, send e-mails to friends (since Facebook and I parted ways in November and I haven’t looked back since), make phone calls to...
Things Babies Born in 2011 Will Never Know →
world-shaker:
Here’s a sample:
Fax machines: Can you say “scan,” “.pdf” and “email?”
One picture to a frame: Such a waste of wall/counter/desk space to have a separate frame around each picture. Eight gigabytes of pictures and/or video in a digital frame encompassing every person you’ve ever met and everything you’ve ever done — now, that’s efficient. Especially compared to what we used ...
After much consideration, I am going to make a brief return to Facebook. I know this will disappoint a couple people, and by disappoint I mean anger. Now before anyone gets their mouse chords all in a bunch, I think you should consider everything I am about to say, well write rather.
When I first deactivated my Facebook back in November, it was not about boycotting “the book”. The...
December 2010
6 posts
Viewer Response
Hey Mar and friends :) I guess I should be snail mailing you my snail mail experience, no? Sadly, I spent my stamp money on a Grande Vanilla Latte this morning so I’m stuck with silly old Gmail, he-he. I thought you might like to know that for Christmas this year, I wrote all of my family members little Christmas cards. They weren’t fancy Hallmarks or hand-made stamp-it-up creations...
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Decline of Web 2.0
If you are interested in the internet, particularly the fields of Web 2.0, I suggest you read this article by clicking on this link.
Let us know your opinions about it at disconnect2reconnect@gmail.com.
posted by: Courtney Wright
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In the New Year...
With the new year approaching I am sure there is one thing on most of your minds; resolutions. So here is what we are wondering, if you have any resolutions related to technology and social media. If you do send them in to us at disconnect2reconnect@gmail.com.
We want to hear from you! With your responses we will compile a list of the best ones and share them with all of you. So let us know.
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emimilija asked: i love how you posted little sticky notes on the ttc with the tumblr address. that's the only reason im reading your blog! (:
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How to Use Social Media for Good
We might not ever have nine lives like our feline friends, but we can certainly have two. By now I am sure most of you have heard of the “Digital Death” campaign for Keep A Child Alive, which provides support for families living with HIV and AIDS.This campaign attempts to raise money by having fans of celebrities such as Elijah Wood, Alicia Keys, and Usher (to name a few) pay to revive...
November 2010
64 posts
Baby named on FACEBOOK!?
CTV published an article today on their website where a 34-year-old Toronto mama to be has decided to let her baby be named by voters on Facebook.
Click me to read the full story.
Send us your thoughts: disconnect2reconnect@gmail.com
posted by: Leviana Coccia
Interesting flow of vocabulary you've got there,...
I spent my evening last night at my kitchen table beside my partner studying for a test I have coming up. I had all of my notes before me as my pen in hand scribbled and re-wrote key words, definitions, and the like. My partner, however, determined to make it seem as though he was distracted by me, was glued to his web browser.
I was already well on my studying way when he said, “Before I...
An article was released by City News today saying that the last thing people do before they go to bed is check their Facebook instead of kissing their partner goodnight.
Read the rest of the article here.
What do you do before you go to bed? Email us: disconnect2reconnect@gmail.com OR tweet us @TheReconnect before you go to bed tonight!
Posted by: Mariam Matti
"I always feel like somebody's watching me..."
I am working on a website for my web design class and decided to search myself on Google to see if I could find the website. I didn’t have any luck but what I did find was something utterly creepy. Almost every single photo I’ve used on my personal blog is on Google just waiting for people to lurk.
Even though privacy isn’t the sole motive for disconnecting from our...
The Radix, newspaper @ University of... →
Ctl-X that Facebook account!
I am a Learning Support Peer for my school, which requires me to give a number of academic success workshops to students. I often suggest students should deactivate their Facebook accounts, or various social media/networking accounts, whenever they feel they are procrastinating too much or wasting too much time.
Their reactions are always the same:
“Woah, I love that idea,”
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I have discussed a variety of topics and feelings I have had towards Facebook since deleting it, but up until today I have never discussed my relationships post-challlenge. To be quite honest I have not thought about it much until today.
Not having Facebook has made me feel isolated. I can not deny that without Facebook I feel left out of many conversations, mind you these are not conversations...
No, I did not reactivate my Facebook, Facebook
In between writing an essay and working on Web Graphics today, I received an e-mail from Facebook telling me I had reactivated my account. I didn’t do any such thing! Then, not even a minute later, I received another e-mail from the social networking website telling me that I had deactivated my account again.
When I had a moment, I read over the e-mails Facebook sent me. There was a link...
Yesterday, one of my younger sisters walked into the living room and sat down at the computer desk. I heard her say, “I don’t know why I always type in Facebook, I wasn’t even going on it, I just typed it in for no reason.”
And I told her that maybe she is addicted to it and so used to going on it that she automatically types it in when going on the computer without...
How To Use Path, The Anti-Social Network, In The... →
world-shaker:
In case you hadn’t noticed, there’s yet another social network on the block. It just launched today but is hoping to turn the social networking world on its head.
It’s called Path and is being dubbed a ‘personal network’ rather than a ‘social network.’ The biggest difference between Path and networks like Facebook or Twitter? You’re limited to just 50 friends.
I’ve...
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Not like the movies
After this encounter with “@Peejayallday” (yes, I added him), I began to wonder if this was the future of dating. Having grown up watching shows like Friends, and Sex and the City, I imagined the dating game far different than this. I wonder if instead of being man enough to ask a girl for her number and call her later to set up a date, guys will now just ask a girl for her Facebook...
Sharing sans creeping
Good morning Tumblr!
Leviana Coccia here, on behalf of the Reconnect. Last night, I went to the Gala (semi-formal) held on behalf of the Guelph-Humber Student’s Association. I don’t have Facebook anymore, since my profile is still deactivated. However, I did take a few nice photos that I wanted to share.
The ones I didn’t think were too hot, I did not share.
I’m in...