I very play video games. As a 20 year old young woman, shopping interests me more. Every once in awhile I play Wii games with my younger sister. We play bowling, or golf. We even have the Food Network game. It alllows us to virtually prepare meals. we get scored on how well we cook, by our favorite food network stars.
I feel like one could be addicted to video games. People are naturally competitive and winning in a game, virtually or not, seems to be human nature. One would chase a triumph endlessly if he could…and virtual video games allow that. I’m sure people sit infront of their TV screen for hours constantly battle for the highest score. In the same sense a person can be addicted to Facebook or twitter, for a different sort of satisfaction. They are seeking acception from their peers. One can easily be addicted to triumph and victory in virtual life and in real life.
Twitter is the social networking tool that I use most on a daily basis. I see it as a netwroking tool. I meet all kinds of new people who share the same interest and ambtion as I have, on twitter. Twitter is definitely the dominantely social networking tool between Facebook and Myspace. Because it is instant it offers a live ffed of events. For example when the earthquake hit the eastcoast in September I heard about it seconds later on twitter. I was here in NY and thought only we could feel it, but twitter istantly informed that the entire eastern seaborad had felt it. tweets popped up from followers in Virginia and North Carolina. Twitter is great for istant, live, updates. One down fall of twitter maybe that it is eliminating the need for News Channels. Because twitter is so istant, it beats out the 20min time lapse it takes a news channel to gather the same info and produce a show.
1. Velvet handbags & shoes
2. Coordinated lip colour & nail colour
3. Overly bejeweled phone cases
4. Confidence
5. The expression “Oye Vey”
(and a yearly obsession of mine is big Diana Ross-esue hair. *hold up black fist*)
So being a New Yorker has forced me to share my personal space! I am use to driving my OWN car when I am home in Charlotte. But here I ride the subway train. I have started an ongoing joke with my family back at home called “Tails from the Train” lol. It’s basically when I share all of my “horror stories” that come from my train rides.
One of my very first “Tails from the Train” happend about two weeks after I arrived here. I was sitting on the train enjoying my music when a lady a couple seats down from me rises and begins to preach at us. She loudly goes on and on about Jesus our Lord and savior! Now I’m down with Jesus ike any other Christian but I would never go about loudly preaching about lost souls and damnation! I was so shocked! I felt a little helpless because there was nothing I could do except ignore it. Because the subway is PUBLIC transportation it is open to ALL KINDS of peple! So, I did what anyone else in my predicament would do…I pulled out my phone and shot a breif recording! lol I posted for my family to see! We got a kick out of it!
Heres the link to the vid:
Social media is definitley my main resource for communacting with others in regards to “Bombshells in Business” Forum. I am all the way in New york and the forum will take place in charlotte so social media is the best way to reach people involved in the planning, as well as the intended audience. Facebook and twitter have been the most common social networking tools I’ve used so far. I created an event page for the event and invited others to attend virtually. I also tweet about the event with a hashtag This allows people seeking more information about the forum to search it and see all of my tweets about the forum.
Another great mass media tool that I have been using to advertise my event is newspaper’s online event calendars. I have the event posted on Charlotte Observer’s online event calendar as well as some other online publications event calendars. This will reach the masses who look to online news sources, rather than print. Again social media and mass communication is a daily aspect of life…socially and business wise.
I am currently organizing a forum for business minded young women called “Bombshells in Business”. The stresses of planning an event that will take place in a different state is taking it’s tole on me. The event will take place December the 28th so working around people’s holiday schedules requires some finesse. I am having a panel of women speak. So managing women that I look up to can be a challenge. I don’t want to over step my boundries or be bothersome. Even though the planning can get quite hectic I know that in the end it all my efforts will benefit young women. I just want to share the opportunities afforded to me, with others.
I got a chance to experience Mecedes Benz Fashion Week. It has been a dream of mine for years, as a fashion journalist. It almost seems unreal that I am living out dreams that I thought were long-term achievements. Now that I am 20 and accomplishing all these things, I wonder. Where will i ever find a parrallel mate, who is just as accomplished? The most guys my age worry about is what party they are going to attend this weeakend lol. I know excellent, accomplished women who are still single in their 30’s. i don’t want to be accomplished, successful, and have a wonderful career and come home to an empty house when i’m 30. oh the woes of a fashionista!
Movies play a huge role in my life! I am a movie watcher extrodinaire! My idea of a great day is time well spent on the couch, with a big blanket, snacks and a line up of good movies to watch. The first meaningful movie I have ever watched was The Color Purple. I had never before seen a depiction of my ancestory’s past, that didn’t involve slavery. It was eye opening to see how my great grandparents might have lived and the struggles they faced AFTER slavery. I love to watch movies with excellent stories. I don’t really like comedy movies. Ilike to watch movies with a purpose. I can remember being so excited to watch Schindler’s List just because I knew it would be rich with content and historical context.
I think movies are what inspired me to be a history major. I love finding the correlation between a movie and the time period it represents. I am now a communications/Journalism major, but no love was lost for movies!
On Wed I viewed a Twitvid I uploaded of the Zang Toi show at NY Fashion week. Kirstie Allie walked down the runway in the closing walk. I was so excited to have witnessed it in person. I watched it on twitvid to experience the excitement again!
On Thursday I recorded the closing walk at the Naeem Khan show, at NY Fashion Week. Naeem created a beautiful collection of sequin and fringe detailed gowns. I had to capture it on film!
Today I watched a movie called Rosewood on TV. It is a story of a racial battle in Florida in the late 1930’s. A white man stannds up to his fellow whites and helps black women, children and two men escape a massacre.
My viewing habits are pretty sporatic. I really don’t view much media on the internet. It just so happend that I uploaded videos, so I watched my own. I am a movie lover! So I always watch TV for the movies. I am so busy I hardly get to watch TV shows, because of scheduling. So I record them and save it to watch later.
Music has defintely played a role in my life and the formation of the person that i am today. I don’t remeber the first music I have ever heard, but I am petty sure it was Al Green! My parents seperated when I was about three and my mother and I moved from NYC to Colorado. My mother was raised in the sixties and early seventies and had a great passion for Al Green. She may have used the term “husband” to discribe him a few times lol. Naturally, I would ride in the car with my mother and she would listen to oldies, like Al Green, Otis Redding, Diana Ross, and The Supremes. That was some of the first music i ever heard,on the radio while riding in my booster seat in the back of my mother’s car.
The first casette i ever owned was NSYNC’s “No Strings Attached” Album. I had a mild obsession with Justin Timberlake when i was in the second grade. I loved that album. I had a little toy cassette player. It was red, yellow and green. I listened to my music through a pair of headphones that sat ontop of my head like a headband. I would have to hit a button that physical rolled back the stream of tape, to rewind. It was two-sided so halfway through i would have to flipp the tape over to side B to play the remainder of the tracks!
Destiny’s Child was my favorite group when I was in third grade. I use to pretend to be Beyonce with my friends and we would perform the songs in my living room. I had there CD “Writtings on the Wall”. I had a little silver, Sony CD player. I loved that CD player! Destiny’s Child had defintely spent many uh hours in that CD player!
When i was 16 my dad got me my first ipod. It was a purple, ipod Nano with the scrolling circle center. I loved that ipod. I even bought purple headphones to match it. Purple is my dad’s fraternity colors, so he was super proud that i carried around a purple ipod lol. I got my music online at free music hosting sites or on iTunes, the music hosting program that came with my ipod. I could see my childhood coming intergrating itsself into my music. I would download Diana Ross and Beyonce then maybe a little ColdPlay for good measure.
Whenever i ride in the car with an older aunt or cousin and sing along to all the oldies, they shake their heads and say “you have an old soul”! I like to say I’m diana Ross reincarnated. Music has definitely infused me with 70’s soul and disco divaness! lol
