The+Facebook+Deprivation+Project

//Erin, I know this is late but just wanted to say thanks for coordinating the whole project so well. I really did come together nicely, the Prezi worked out perfectly! Great working with you too.//

//Tracey//

=//The Prezi is complete and I have posted it on today's agenda! **Tuesday, March 6th**//= Great work, gals! I'm really happy it came together so nicely. It was so much fun learning about all your experiences! I guess we'll just show the Prezi to the class today and if we have anything else (verbally) to add that's not included, do so in person!

It was great working with you. Erin

Hey,

I just created a blog and put in all of my written entries and links to the YouTube videos into one single blog, which is now linked in the Prezi.

Thanks for your help! See you tonight.

Sarah,

Is there any way you can upload your videos to YouTube and post the link to the channel on the Prezi? You can make the YouTube videos private so only people with the link can access it if you're worried about the videos being all over the internet. As for your write-ups, just make a blog and then post the link of the blog to the Prezi. You can also just upload your video files directly to a tumblr blog, the only problem is that tumblr only lets you upload 5 minutes per day which is why YouTube would probably be better.

Great job everyone! The Prezi looks absolutely amazing so far. I just finished up my portion of the Prezi but I wasn't able to add in all of my blogs/videos. Are we going to put them all together somewhere to hand them in?

Sarah = =

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Hey guys,
==== I have the same midterm as Kelsey, but I already spoke with Erin today. How did the meeting go? It's kind of exciting that this mini project is wrapping up. We've all sort of done our own thing, it'll be interesting to see the final collaboration. ====

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Hey Everyone,
I won't be able to make it tonight, I have an economics midterm tomorrow, but I can send all my videos to you for 5pm. Sorry I can't be there. Kelsey =

= = ***Important* - Meeting Friday March 2nd @ 5pm in the library.** =

Everyone,

Whoever can get together __**Friday, March 2nd,**__ the date I suggested before reading week, please meet tomorrow in the library at __**5:00PM**__ sound good? I will be there at that time.

Like I said in an earlier post, we don't need everyone to come but we do need everyone to send their stuff to me before that time so that those of us who are able to come can put together the Prezi. (if it's a link, post the link here... if it's a word document, send it to __** emaxfield@uoguelph.ca ,**__ if you have videos, please upload them to a website (YouTube, Vimeo) or send them to me, et**c)**

I suggest becoming familiar with Prezi, it's lots of fun!

Once we are together, we'll figure out what to do next. I have a lot of ideas and hopefully you guys do too. It'll be easier to figure out what we're going to do when we can talk about it face-to-face and know what types of media everyone used.

See you Friday,

Erin - If you need to get in touch with me, please call, text, or tweet: **//519.993.5787//**///**@emaxie**//

Erin, I have 4 written blogs, do you want me to email them to you ? and I'm a little confused of what we are going to do with all our stuff. When did you want to have this done by/when are we going to meet in the library? Just let me know what i need to do!

Tasha

Sarah,

Please send your stuff to emaxfiel@uoguelph.ca. I think a video after-the-fact would be good. I have done one of those, too. If you don't get around to it though, that's not a big deal. Erin

Hey everyone,

So I made a diary for 5 of the days and then 2 videos so that we could have a bit of both. I was also thinking that if we needed more video footage that I could make a short film about how I feel now after having access to YouTube again, but just let me know. I don't think I can attach any files in Wiki or if I can I'm not sure how. What email can I send my input to?

Thanks!

Sarah

Hello all,

If you haven't gotten back to me about Friday yet (re: potluck/project discussion) please do so... (Information is posted further down the page under the big red *Important*)

If dinner doesn't work for everyone then we can arrange a library meeting instead to just sum up what we'll be doing. I figured for the Prezi we could sample portions of everyone's videos/blogs... whatever you did. If we can all get together and work on one that would be best since then we'll all be learning how to use Prezi if we haven't already! As for the presentation to the class, I'm not 100% sure how to go about doing this since there are so many of us...

Anyway, as Mark has said many times it's not really about the polished end project... but rather our intention and reflection... so when we get together I definitely want to talk about why everyone wanted to do this in the first place/what we all thought we would learn from it... and what we all DID learn.

**Sarah,** if we end up having a potluck, if you could send me a link to the place you posted your video/blog, or the document, or whatever medium you used to express your experience... that would be great; this way we can make sure you're portion is part of the Prezi. As for the presentation for the class... once I have a better understanding of what we're going to be doing (not that I think it has to be long or anything...) then I'll be able to figure out if we need to meet to go over anything. Erin

Hey everyone, the deadline is perfectly appropriate. I had made a serious of videos, but they were all bland/ the exact same thing, so I changed it and made one video concluding my experience in the end. How and to whom do we submit these? By hard-drive maybe?

PS. I hated every second of my Facebook deprivation. haha

Missy

Hey Erin,

Friday March 2nd sounds like a good day to have it completed. I will be able to meet in the library to work on it but I'm not sure about dinner just because it's becoming that very busy time of year for me right now! But if there are other people that are able to meet for dinner, I could always look over it with you at a later time.

Thanks!

Sarah

**If you haven't already, please add your name to this list:**
 * **Television** || **Facebook** || **Twitter** || **YouTube** || **Tumblr** || **MySpace** ||
 * Mark || Missy || Francesca || Sarah || Cara ||  ||
 * || Tracey ||  || Kelsey ||   ||   ||
 * || Erin ||  || Marina ||   ||   ||
 * || Taylor ||  || Tasha ||   ||   ||

= ***Important*** = Please remember that if you still want to be involved in this project, you have two weeks from yesterday before our ideal deadline for everyone being done. I was hoping a few of us could meet the week after reading week to go over all the stuff we have. I realize it will be practically impossible to mesh with everyone's schedules but if we can even just have a couple people who want to be involved in creating the prezi meet some time that week.

I am going to propose the date of __**Friday, March 2nd at 6pm**__. I'm not 100% sure how many people ended up participating but if there aren't //too// many of us, I also propose a pot-luck at my house... because hey, who doesn't love a pot-luck? Erin

Hey everyone! So, yesterday was my last day of my Tumblr Deprivation experiment. I didn't keep a vlog detailing the process though. I hate having my picture taken - the same goes for videos. Anyway, I have written work that could be added/presented in the Prezi, whenever we get that sorted out. How's everyone else doing so far? - CARA

Way to go guys, I'm impressed! I've got a ton of videos... I don't know about anyone else who has given up Facebook... but this project has made me completely renovate my account. I have gone back to the year I opened my account (2006) and have been just removing a lot of stuff that I posted "back in the day" - 6 years ago?? This blows my mind. - that really isn't appropriate (as far as I am concerned) for the World Wide Web. I'm not sure if this really even matters considering "they" (the Facebook people?) will still technically have access to all of my previous information (little scamps and their ridiculous TOS)... but it certainly can't hurt. Anyway, that's what I have been thinking about since I finished my two weeks. Erin

I'm on day 8 of my youtube deprivation and I've also been doing write ups and video blogs whenever I've had a chance :)

Marina

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to check in with everyone to see how they're doing with the project! I completed a full 9 days of no YouTube (woo!) and have done write-up with some video blogs for each of those days. What is everyone else's stance on the project as of right now?

Sarah

I would love to challenge myself and join this project. noticed that no one has given up twitter yet, I would love to suffer through and give it up for as long as i can! I am also really good at editing videos if you needed someone to help with that portion of the project and i am also familiar with Prezi. :)
 * Hey guys,**

Francesca.

You can also learn about what it is just by playing around on the website: The Prezi Website Erin
 * Learn about what a Prezi is... Here!!!** (Thanks, Wikipedia!)

Everyone sounds like they're really doing well, and when I say well I mean sticking it out. I started today so I'm not quite feeling the wrath yet, but I'm sure it will hit me soon enough. I really like the idea of presenting in front of the class. I'm sure all of us will have a lot of interesting information to put forth to the class. Prezi sounds cool if someone knows how to efficiently organize all our information in that way. Keep it up guys!

-Taylor

Hey guys, so we need to have our blog done for Feb 28th and bring whatever we have to class? and then you were planning on presenting it the next week in class? Just to clarify. Also i have never heard of "Prezi" what exactly is it if you don't mind me asking ?

Tasha

Hey everyone,

Erin that timeline sounds good to me. I've never used Prezi before but I'd be more than happy to work on that portion of the project. I am doing a combination of video blogs and writing so that I can contribute to both sections of the presentation!

Sarah

I was talking to Mark and he said that he'd let us do a presentation of our final project once everyone has completed the "deprivation" portion and we get a nice Prezi together. With that in mind, if you haven't started yet, please do so soon! We should set a deadline for ourselves so that we can pick a day we might like to present to the class. My suggestion for the deadline is the Tuesday after reading week... (February 28th) and then maybe we can present the following Tuesday? That way we give ourselves a week to decide what parts of our "research" (vlogs, blogs, etc) and analysis would be good for our Prezi. Erin
 * UPDATE: **

I think the Prezi is a fantastic idea! I'm on my second day without YouTube, and I'm starting to feel the pain, haha. I've been recording my journal via webcam, but it does seem like a really good idea to have different forms of media in this project.

Kelsey

Hey friends, Glad to see everyone's so on board. Today is my 7th day and it's not fun. I would definitely suggest keeping a typed blog of your experiences and frustrations... I have been recording my thoughts because I feel as if that will make the final reflection of the project easier at the end. For the final collaborative product we can make a Prezi - You can have all sorts of different types of media in a Prezi... Pictures, text, videos, etc. What does everyone think? That way, if people don't have a webcam, they can still participate fully in the final presentation/digital project that we'll make available to the class. So, if you're having an angry moment (I have had several) snap a picture and we'll throw it on the Prezi. How does that sound to everyone? Erin

Hey everyone,

Cara I added you to the list below! Tasha, I think we agreed that we will give it up from now until next class (Tuesday Feb 7th) so we can discuss in person. Taylor, I like your idea to give it up again in February! We could see how different it is to give up the websites a second time around. Tasha, I don't know if it is mandatory to be a part of the video blogs, but if you want to do more of a write-up on it, I think that would be great since that would give us a variety of forms. But maybe Erin should finalize that just because it was her concept. Hope you guys aren't struggling too hard!

Sarah

Hey everyone, I would love to join this project as well! If I were to give up a webpage, it'll probably be Tumblr if we use Sarah's idea of organizing who will be giving up which social media webpage. - Cara

Hey everyone , I would love to join this project. I was wondering if we have decided on a date that we are all going to finish on?! Also do we HAVE to make a video blog or would we be able to blog using some kind of journal?! let me know ... Thanks -Tasha

This project sounds super interesting and I am definately interested in getting on board with everyone. I think I could give up facebook starting February 14th as well and record answers to specific questions in regards to all social media websites. Looking forward to discussing it further tonight!

Taylor

Glad to see we even got the Prof on board! Tracey, February 14th sounds like a good date to me so we can have an appropriate discussion in class.

See you all tonight!

Sarah

Hey all,

I think this is a great idea! And I would like to be part of it with giving up Facebook for a week and a half (i'll see if I can go longer when the times comes!). I like the idea of making video recordings of our thoughts and opinions, beats having to write them down. Usually when midterms/finals time comes around I make one of my friends change my Facebook password so I can't log in, I usually end up caving a couple days into it so this project will be fun and challenging for me.

Missy, I agree that we should all establish an end date so I'm just going to throw one out there and say February 14th. This is a Tuesday so we could all meet in class and discuss a final submit date for the videos. Sound good?

Tracey

Can I give up grading for a week? (smile) ML kidding. . . I'd participate. I'll give up TV. by by TV.

Hey everyone,

Glad to hear you have jump started the project Missy! Thanks for your input already on what it feels like to give up a social media website. I think if we also give input into this wiki page then we can conglomerate some sentences and put them in the final project to go along with the video.

What if we started to get an idea of how many people will be giving up each social media website? If you could just post what website you've chosen to block out, just write it in my post below: Facebook: Missy, Tracey, Erin Twitter: Francesca YouTube: Sarah, Kelsey, Marina MySpace: Tumblr: Cara TV: Prof. Lipton Write in another one if I have missed it please!

I can give up YouTube by Wednesday I'd say and go for a week and a half or so. I'll make videos every few days as well! What about everyone else?

Sarah

Hey guys! Who has already declared their absence from their favourite social media site? I gave up Facebook as of yesterday and I'm already finding it immensely difficult. It is especially difficult when my friends message me telling me to "check Facebook" or when I get emails of tag reminders or wall-to-wall discussions. In a matter of a few days, I've realized how difficult, but interesting this entire experience is going to be.

I think we should start to establish a start or end date. I realize everyone will be on a little bit of a different time-frame, but some sort of organization would be good I think. Or maybe a better idea is to establish broad guidelines or ideas for our vlogs and possibly a submit date for these? I just want everyone to be on the same page.

Goodluck! (I know I need it...)

Missy

If someone really wanted to be clever, they could go on a Wiki Deprivation Project--feign doing class work by not doing class work.

Just kidding around,

Connor

Hey Everyone,

I would love to be a part of this project, it sounds really interesting. I too like Marina, am more addicted to YouTube than Facebook and think it would be a great idea to see how we feel being deprived from a website we find ourselves most addicted to. Erin, editing a video to represent everyone's experience sounds like a fantastic idea!

Kelsey

I feel like overlap would be okay, though because the comparison of experiences would be really interesting... and depending on everyone's "vlog" responses, we can edit together the video to best represent everyone's individual/overall experience. I agree with you that synchronization isn't important, really... as long as we set a deadline for when we want everyone's video responses in by.

What do/es you/everyone think about that?

I think I'll be starting tomorrow. (YIKES) Erin

Erin: I do edit videos together on a quite regular basis. For every high school assignment possible that was usually the route I took. For quick examples, you can take a look at the four videos I have on youtube currently. They're just very simple videos that my friends asked me to make with the mass amounts of footage I have since I bring my camcorder with me everywhere lol but they're decent enough examples. Not my best work but an idea of the very basic skills I have haha.

My Youtube Page :)

Also I'd be very happy to teach you the "art" of editing videos as this process continues. It can actually be quite enjoyable having a moment match up perfectly with a specific cut or music cue lol. :)

Also I think the sooner we start the better, not sure if it matters if we're all synchronized but we should probably figure out which site everyone's doing before we start just to avoid too much overlap if possible.

Cheers, Marina

Hey guys and gals,

I think you're all right in that different people should give up different sites - it would make for a more interesting video. Maybe we can rename it "The Social Media Deprivation Project".Either way I think all the questions still apply... If you have a site that you want to deprive yourself of and these questions don't apply, come up with some that do! I also thought that we could each do a "before" and "after" video. Personally, I think that I am underestimating how difficult this might be for me... I was paying attention to my Facebook habits today and realized it's pretty much the first thing I look at when I wake up and the last thing I look at before bed. I definitely think I need to reevaluate my usage...

Do you suggest that we pick the same weeks or just start whenever we can? The sooner we do this the better so that we can make a really good video to show the class by the time we have to start presenting our projects... whenever that is...


 * Marina: ** As an avid video fiend, does that mean you are good at editing/piecing together clips to make a decent video? This is not my forté but as part of the project, I would love to learn some skills if you have them and wouldn't mind teaching me.

Thanks for all the feedback, everyone. Erin

Hey everyone,

I really like the ideas being put forth. I think it might be interesting if certain people involved choose different social media websites to give up, say the ones that everyone finds the most difficult to give up. We could even divide up the responses from each person based on which social media website they gave up. What do you guys think? This way, we could include more people in the project who are interested in giving up the website that they spend most time on.

I'm really looking forward to seeing the final compilation of all of the videos! I think you're right Erin in saying that we should make a list of questions or concerns that we should address in each video.

Sarah

Hey Erin! I'm very excited by the prospect of this assignment. I think that it would be really interesting to see if social networking sites have a real impact on our lives. I think it'll be really interesting to see how our lives improve or possibly become more challenging without them. Considering it's something that we didn't have in our lives such a short time ago, I think it'll be interesting to see how people adapt without them. Perhaps without Facebook people will return to old fashioned phone calls or just picking up a whole new social networking site all together.

I also really love the idea of a video at the end. As an avid video fiend this REALLY excites me. It could be like a short film/documentary. Perhaps we'll win an oscar with it lol.

Super excited for this overall :)

- Marina

Hey Erin,

Would you consider this an exclusively Facebook-based project? Or would you want to experiment with how others react to a hiatus from sites that they visit most frequently? I was talking about this digital project with Marina after class tonight, so I'll use her as an example. She said that she could survive fine without Facebook, but YouTube would be a little more difficult because she is attached to that site more. I'm just curious to know if it'd be alright to take strike from whichever website/social networking site we're most addicted to.

- Cara

It is clear by the responses on the discussion board that this is something many of us want to pursue as one of our digital projects so I thought I would get the ball rolling by creating a page where we can all throw around some ideas of what we think would make this project awesome.

The reason I wanted to do this is not only so I can challenge myself to give up something that I feel I am really addicted to… but also to see whether Facebook is something that people really //need//. I think that the social aspect of it is only a small part of what makes Facebook such a great resource. Personally, I use it to share articles/videos and other arm-chair activism that I stumble upon… and that’s something that is very important to me. I have also used it as a means of discussing issues that are close to my heart.

Here are a few of the ideas I had regarding what we could do for the project.

1) Give up Facebook for one/two week/s.

2) C

ompile a list of questions to ask ourselves every other day (or more often) about what we are feeling throughout our hiatus. (eg. Are you using your time more wisely without the option of using Facebook? Do you feel as if you are being left out of things that are being planned via Facebook? What do you miss about Facebook? Why do you think you miss it? If you could use Facebook right now, what would you be using it for? Do you consider this a good use of your time?).

3) Record our responses to these questions via a webcam.

4) Assemble these responses in a meaningful way to create a video that expresses our experiences/successes/failures for the project.

5) Reflect critically on the experiences we had during our hiatus and whether or not this project changed the way we view why and how we use Facebook.

If anyone can think of anything else, I would LOVE to hear it. I’m looking forward to this project and working with everyone. Erin