is this when you join something or participate in something because your friends are doing it?

I can't even imagine how people invited friends to hang out before phones because how did they know the could hang out and where to go and what time without ongoing communication?

This reminds me of a small town versus a big city, where everyone knows each other versus not many people knowing anybody else.

I love sending my friends videos and Tik Toks all the time.

This guy is COMMITTED, spending days downloading things for a software for free, that is a lot of work and time.

A lot of people like to look for the dark web and things that are not legal just for the thrill or because they find it interesting because they aren't supposed to do it.

I have never heard of this?

This is a really cool sentence that speaks a lot about how people go beyond the restrictions technology has in place.

This is a good insight into how many of these groups are quite different from how people are at school or home. Many people are the cool sporty kids at school and then are part of huge gaming communities online that people may not know about.

How is he able to spend so much time on this and still keep up on school?

Definition- a version of a foreign film typically anime that has been translated by fans.

I think most people have many accounts they follow that they like to watch, youtubers they are subscribed too, and things that are bookmarked on their computers to be able to quickly look into.

I am glad they included this to clear up that it is not just discussing nerdy topics, but all topics that are of interest.

You can kind of just do whatever you want and there are no limitations or specific guidelines.

Is there a disconnect where technology and computers are not as prevalent in other countries such as the Dominican Republic?

It is much easier to get along with and do things with people who share similar interests with you because you have more in common and can all hang out and do something you enjoy.

definition- find ways around it

This is a huge limiting factor for me and probably for most other people, because it is super fun to play games and mess with technology for me but often I have so much else going on I don't have much time for those things around work, school, and homework.

It is crazy how some people just have a knack for that kind of thing and think its easy to figure out.

This makes me immediately think of COD, Fortnite, minecraft, and MW that are online games many people play against and with each other.

This is where a lot of cyberbullying can happen because people think doing it anonymously, they won't get in trouble or caught.

This makes me think of using Command F, to search for words and terms in long textbook pages.

Google and most social media really does take you down a rabbit hole of different random sites and information.

This reminds me of how when someone tells you to do something and you are already doing it, it isn't fun and you don't want to do it anymore.

My sister also does this with many presentations I have she loves to decorate and add hearts and large writing.

There are so many dating apps nowadays, like thousands of them to foster romantic relationships, and many people meet online first, including my boyfriend and I who started talking over text.

I multitask with technology almost all the time, whether its watching a video and texting or doing homework and watching tv or listening to music or a podcast while playing video games.

This is such a good example that it is almost impossible to block anything on the internet, people are almost always smart enough to find a way around it. Every week kids at my school found new vpns that worked to allow us to go on social media, despite it being blocked.

At my middle school and high school snapchat and instagram were blocked in my school as well. However most people just downloaded a VPN to hide the location and were able to still use the apps at school.

This happens to me way too often, all the time unfortunately!

I would also agree media projects do help a lot of students learn better, they are a powerful tool for students to have access to because everyone learns differently.

I love high school musical!! Also I love Zac Efron too.

I never had MySpace, I am guessing it is similar to facebook and instagram?

I remember having an ipod when I was younger to download songs onto.

I did not realize this was not something that always existed, and happened postwar mostly.

There are so many ways to communicate with friends online, through discord, email, text, call, facetime, the list goes on and on.

I find this true and false, it depends on my mood sometimes I like to hang with my friends offline, but hanging out online is nice sometimes too and can be less stressful.

I definitely have noticed a lot that myself and many other people my age and younger do not like to go out with friends as much and usually communicate and like to game with friends at home rather than going out to hang out.

I totally get this because I think people definitely develop different personalities and aspects of themselves on different types of media. On my instagram I have nice photos of me and posing with friends, while on twitter I never post and purely retweet and follow many youtubers and celebrities.

My grandma always makes comments about how great my sister and I are with technology and how she never understands it and she has a flip phone. I can never understand how she doesn't get how to do certain things because it is very easy for me. Looking at the gap between ages for understanding technology it is clear there is a huge learning curve for the older generations compared to the younger ones.

I do think the gaming community has many different exclusive and specific groups, based on the games you are playing, the type of console you have, and many other factors.

Again, I think this is much higher now, honestly it would probably be around 95-100 percent of people go online daily because nearly everyone has phones and computers and things they have to go online for daily.

This is a lot of technology, but seeing as it is from 2005 it is probably way higher now. Thinking about my house we have 3 Tv's, 2 DVD players, 3 game consoles, 5 computers, 3 tablets, and 4 phones, there is a lot of technology in our house and I would bet it is pretty similar in many other households nowadays.

have fixed boundaries

I have always wanted to play on a Game Cube just to see what it is like because I never had one growing up!

This is incredibly different from everything in my life and most other peoples. There is technology everywhere you go, at home 24/7 and especially at school

This is a valuable quote that often gets lost in my opinion in many people's search for themselves and jobs. Many people lose sight of their hobbies and things they enjoy to pursue a career that is successful or makes a lot of money.

How did the PE teacher find out he was good at creating videos and was worthy of payment? Did he just take a chance on him or did he see previous work?

If he hadn't of had these materials would he have found a way to still pursue his vision or would he have lost hope in his ideas without it?

It is very fortunate he had the support of his family and friends to help him with the movie, some parents are not as supportive and helpful for their children's dreams.

This is only at age 13?? Would he just use the animation or actually use a film camera or video on his phone?

This reminds me of the SCRATCH animation program that I learned when I was younger.

I like how he immediately was drawn towards playing games and looking at the extras and movie frame ideas in the games, which is different from many other kids who play games, playing them for the fun of shooters or challenges.

This reminds me of when I was younger me, my sister, and my best friend who lived in my neighborhood made a movie with a dinosaur that we cut off of an amazon box. It was a really great memory and I still have the movie we made on snapchat when I was in 7th grade.

I think this is super cool that he right away thought about making movies and taking pictures slowly like an animation at such a young age. It just goes to show how smart and adaptable and creative young minds are, to just immediately start to move things and take pictures to make it look like an animation is ver impressive and smart on Luis behalf.

This is an text to world connection that I found because my mom is a special-ed teacher and many of the kids at her school don't have access to computers individually and often have to share it with their whole family because they can't afford it. With how online everything is nowadays, for school it is nearly impossible to do well as you get higher level without a computer and access to internet.

This is interesting because it is an important part of developing identities that often may not have been realized. I think its cool that this clubhouse is able to allow people to learn new things and get the feelings that they belong somewhere.

I agree a lot with this statement because I think the wide variety of online communities who are accessible to many people allow so many to share their work that would not be available before. People who are quiet and shy can provide work behind a screen and not feel shy and feel like their voice is heard without the awkwardness of presenting and worrying about if people like things or not.

I think this is an interesting revelation about how different it is from kids nowadays. When I was younger I was definitely similar to Luis playing with plastic figures and play dough, now I see so many kids on phones at a young age instead of playing with actual physical things like Luis is pictured playing with along with a little technology. I think this also give insight into a loss of imagination with kids nowadays on technology 24/7.