Sydney Charalambous's Learning Journal

I liked reading and analyzing the past few readings each week. This weeks reading What Is an RSS Feed? (And Where To Get It) stood out to me because I didn’t know a lot of information on what an RSS was. After reading the article, I understand that RSS feeds help you stay up to date with information on blogs or other sites. I also learned how to find an RSS feed on a website through the videos. Since RSS feeds are on a lot of websites, I think it would be better to put RSS into my online usage, so that way it can prevent me from scrolling through useless content, which is a habit of mine. Usage on social media has changed so much over the past couple years. I used to never use social media for anything, but now since it blew up and there are many different platforms I use it quite often. Our assignment for this week has a lot to do with usage on social media. It was a great way for myself to realize how much I go on social media and use different platforms. Whenever I’m working or in ...

The social media application I will be documenting and talking about is TikTok. I most frequently use TikTok out of all the applications I have on my phone, so it will be easier to track my usage over the past 4 days.  Feb 18- Saturday: TikTok was used for a total of 3 hrs 31 mins. I was most active in the morning between 9am - 11am and right before bed around 1am. I usually spend my free time and relax time on TikTok.  Feb 19- Sunday: TikTok was used for a total of 4 hrs 13 mins. I was most active during the afternoon between 4pm - 7pm and also right before bed around 12am. When I got back from running errands, all I wanted to do was relax, so I spent that time on TikTok.  Feb 20- Monday: TikTok was used for a total of 2 hrs 35 mins. I was most active before going to sleep around 12am. Before I sleep I like to settle down and relax, so TikTok helps with that.  Feb 21- Tuesday: TikTok was used for a total of 4 hrs 8 mins. I was most active in the morning between ...