30 Year Old Ned

Where would I like to be in ten years you ask? To be honest, there is not much certainty in where I would like to be in ten years. I enjoy not knowing what will come of my life. So I will give you one of many examples of where I would like to be in ten years. I would like to have a wife. Recently I have come to see that I could be happy with others, but since I have been here, I have told myself I wanted to marry a Clemson girl. But I know other schools have some pretty awesome girls as well. As for kids, I could go either way. I think three kids would be the ideal number; I am partial because I am one of three; but whether or not they come in ten years I don't care.

I would like to be well traveled by the time ten years comes around. I have always said I would take at least a year after college and travel. Ideally, I would find a way to make a living on the road so I could still be traveling in ten years. Rather than move from place to place, I would like to stay in places long enough to experience the culture. A strong influence on where I want to travel is places I can go to surf and snow ski. One of the first places I would like to hit is New Zealand. I would also like to spend at least a couple months living in a ski town, Colorado or Utah preferably.

I would also like to have a stronger developed faith in ten years. What I mean by that is to have more knowledge of the Bible and be more dependent on God in my daily life. So in ten years, I would like to have been married for a couple of years to a girl who loves to travel as well. We would have decided on a place to settle down and will have started our life in the city where we will raise our kids. It will be interesting to look back on this in ten years.

iGen and our Addiction to the Internet

Digital ethnology brings up the constant issue facing Generation Y, also referred to as iGen. I think the title of the video, Digital ethnology, is an interesting, but perfect description for the topic. Ethnology is defined as dealing with the scientific description of individual cultures. What I get out of this video is that Web 2.0 could define Generation Y.

Web 2.0 has more of an effect on someone entering the workforce than is initially apparent. The most significant thing is how much information is on the internet about anyone looking for a job. For example, an empolyer can look at facebook and see a side of a potential employee that probably would not show in an interview. They could also see blogs such as this one, or a personal webpage. Because of the easy access to the internet, Generation Y specifically, has posted more inforation on the internet. This is the exact point of the video, the fact that our generation can edit the internet and as a result put more personal information on it. So I would say Web 2.0 is beneficial to empoyers more so than employees. To people already in the workforce, they have to be careful of how much personal information gets out that their bosses could see. Facebook picutures can be put up and tagged of you and you have no control over your friends tagging pictures. This is where employees have to be careful.

At the end of the video, it listed a few things we "need to rethink." The last three were love, family, and ourselves. Thats messed up. If we change the way we define love, family, and ourselves. The internet and our relationship with it has gone too far. Yes there are online dating services and everything, but if our generation is defined by those, I might have to remove myself from it (yes its possible?). Anyway this video addresses real issues but my opinion is that it sucks how dependent our generation is on the internet.

Who am I?

Well my name is Ned and I'm a junior Graphic Communications major. I am from the town of Burlington, North Carolina where I have lived my whole life.

I enjoy traveling and extreme sports. I grew up traveling around the United States, and in the last few years I have started to travel more internationally. Not to say I'm great at them, but I love any sport on the water; and I take every chance I get to go snow skiing.

My last semester was spent doing an internship in Charleston, so I am excited about being back at school. Clemson has been the perfect school for me so far and I hope to make the most out of my last year and a half.

So that's me summed up, I look forward to getting to know you all in this whole Second Life thing.

Ned