Mashable Readings

The mashable readings were sort of interesting. Zuckerberg donated a ton of money to a poor and under educated school system and I think that whether or not he did it to try and boost his image is beyond the point. Donating that much money is a big deal and is a great thing to do to help a school district out no matter what his reasoning may be. Previously I had never known anything about Dig, and after reading the article and learning about the problems they are having I don't think I will start to use the site either. As far as celebrity influence goes on twitter, I personally don't follow a ton of celebrities and could really care less what most of them are up to or have going on in their life, theres a few atheletes I keep an eye on durring certain seasons throughout the year but other than that they have very little influence on me as well.

Promoting Facebook Page

To help promote the GameZombie page on Facebook I did simple things like commenting on posts that had been put on the wall or liking different posts. I also shared some of the material on my own personal page and suggested a number of my friends become fans or like the page. I don't think any of my freinds were really bothered by it, because nobody really said anything about it or mentioned anything to me.

Semester Goals

A lot of this technology stuff is new to me and my biggest goal for this semester would be just to get a better understanding and knowledge of how it works and how it is used. Social media is becoming a huge part of society and I want to understand how and why it is influencing so many things. Also I would like to work to become the first hit on search engines when I perform a search for myself, not only that but like we discussed in class be able to control what comes up when I'm searched.

My Ego Surf

I figured I'd be farely easy to find using a search engine since my name is farely uncommon, turns out there's a few other Darin Heinrichs out there. I was however the first hit on a couple of different serches. Most of the results for me were either stuff that had been posted about me playing rugby at Whitewater or on some collegiate all-star teams. I couldn't find many pictures of myself though and the facebook link that came up wasn't me either.