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When I moved in...

When my cousin sat me down in front of my computer last year and stood over my shoulder until I signed onto her new boyfriend, myspace, it was my first experience in creating an online persona. I wasn't sure what to do, where to begin, or where to end. I couldn't believe that I was expected to display all this information that usually only my friends would know. My birthday, hometown, education, occupation, even my height! LoL. My initial profile didn't have pictures, top friends, or even a background. But, as a few weeks passed, people I knew from elementary school, middle school, and high school that I hadn't seen in years began sending me friend requests. I thought this was cool, and it lured me in a bit more. Then I discovered uploading pics, videos, and posting little notes and comments on my boyfriend's profile at the time for EVERYONE to see. I don't know what got me, but within months I was on myspace everyday, checking others peoples profiles and updating mine. I'm not sure how to explain what it means to be a virtual entity so I looked up the meaning of entity to give myself a more precise understanding of what I should be talking about. Entity means a thing with distinct and independent existence. I think being a virtual entity is different than just simply "being". Virtually, I can be who I WANT TO BE. I present to others who I want them to believe I am. I control what they know about me. It's almost like creating your own world and deciding what, and whom you want in it. I think being part of a "global community" gives me a different sense of who I am and what I know about myself. As I became more and more into this "global community", I realized that I took a lot of time to figure out exactly what I wanted to portray about myself, when I would do it, and how. Everything would be on my terms. I didn't simply say "here world, this is who I am". Instead it was more along the lines of "hello world, this is who you're going to think I am". I became somewhat imbedded in this lifestyle and have come to realize that this new community is like a 2nd world, just more interesting than that of the real one. 

Humans/Apes... Violence/Technology?... WHATTT?!

I can honestly say that I am at a complete loss for words after watching this clip. I am not sure what direction the clip was heading in, or what exactly Kubrick was trying to depict. 

I would guess that he used apes to represent humans. One of the apes awoke to something unknown to him/his kind and began making noise to alert the others to wake up (that's the way I see it anyway). After they all rose, they immediately went toward the unknown object and went crazy "yelling" and "screaming" (I don't know what else to call it) simply because of it's presence. It is apparent that the apes were behaving violently toward what they didn't know in order to determine whether or not it would be harmful to them. Once one of the apes stepped up and touched the object repeatedly, the others followed. I believe that this is true in relation to humans, but only to a certain extent. I feel like in modern society others are only pulled to something and become okay with it, if it is accepted by others, just as in the clip where they all followed one ape reacting to the object, then accepting it once another had. 

Based on this clip, I think violence and technology are related in that new technology paves the way for violent acts/activities. When the ape toward the end sat staring at the bone (technology) he discovered a means of using it as a weapon. He used the bone in hand to destroy other bones and objects around him. This is similar to humans because as we progress technologically, people use technological advances to better the quality of modern society, but also to destroy it. For example, many people indulge themselves in the internet in order to help others by for instance raising money for a cause. On the other hand other people who do put their efforts and interest into the use of computers use this power to their advantage while harming others (i.e. child predators disguise themselves as teenagers or children in order to lure young men and women into their traps)

I thought this clip was rather confusing, maybe because there were no words? I'm not sure if how I perceived the clip makes logical sense, but it did when I thought about it haha. But this is what came to mind when I watched it.