Computer questions!

Anais:

1. My parents playing point and click adventure games on them. We would play them as a family.
2. I got my first computer when I was little. My parents gave it for me to use for school. I didn't have to ask for it. My dad built and repaired computers, so it wasn't a new one, it was just one he had lying around.
3. When one of my best friends moved to Gainesville, I was still able to talk to her through the computer and use it to plan getting together.
4. Once a family member used (perfectly innocent) pictures from my Facebook to spread gossip about me to the rest of my family.
5. Monitor, ram, hard drive, mother board, fan, keyboard, touch pad, power button, disc drive, wires, ethernet port, volume buttons, power input, floppy drive, zip drive, usb ports, wireless switch, microphone, camera, microphone input, headset input
6. I have important pictures backed up, but thats it. Other than that, theres not much I would miss if my computer was lost broken or stolen.
7. Use it to store and view knitting/crochet patterns. Mess around in photoshop. Listen to music on Itunes. Watch DVDs or pre-downloaded shows.
8. Facebook, ravelry, BBT, Gmail, FSU, Crunchyroll, Youtube, Style.com, Amazon, Skype, TCC, Nation States, Etsy, Tumblr, Looklet, Polyvore, Demonoid, Neopets, Blizzard.net, Blogger
9. No.
10. I frequent Ravelry and Tumblr
    My distraction routine involves Tumblr, World of Warcraft, Ravelry, and various online comics or funny websites
    Daily I visit Lady Gaga fansites, fashion tumblrs, and WoW news sites

Kayla:

What is the first experience with a computer you can remember?

Right before kindergarten started my mom would let me go on the computer to play solitaire. I don’t actually remember playing it, but I remember the first time I tried to type. I couldn’t grasp the concept to lift my fingers from the keyboard, so a simple word looked like cccccccccccccaaaaaaaaaaattttttttttttt

What was the first computer that you owned? Did you purchase it, or did your parents? Did you have to ask for it, or was it just given to you?

This MacBook is the only computer that’s been 100% mine. My dad got this for me as a graduation gift from high school, and he knew I needed it for college so that’s how this computer came about. I didn’t really ask; he just put money together and gave it to me.

Describe a specific instance in which a computer has had a positive impact on your life.

I can’t think of one specific moment, but I use the computer everyday for enjoyment and college work. If I didn’t have it, I’d be SOL.

Describe a specific instance in which a computer has had a negative impact on your life.

The computer didn’t directly cause a negative impact, but social networking on the Internet caused me to be distracted in school, acted as a source for cyber-bullying, and made me not actually be with my “friends” online in real life.

List as many parts of the computer that you can think of.

Keyboard, screen, usb port, hard drive, ram drive, temperature fan?

Do you have a data back-up solution?

No. But I would miss pictures and videos if my computer was lost/broked/stolen.

Do you have any activities on the computer besides word-processing/gaming that do not involve the Internet?
PhotoBooth for Mac! Editing photos, watching movies, listening to music…

List as many sites/networks with which you have an account as you can.

Bank of America, SunTrust, Etsy, ebay, Amazon, Campus.Fsu.edu, AIM, Blogger, StumbleUpon

Do you store any data in the cloud? With what service?
No?

What websites do you frequent?

Etsy, StumbleUpon

Kelli:

First experience with a computer:

Playing computer video games with my sister when I was about 3 or 4, though they were nothing like computer video games are today. It was something with fish swimming and catching them though the fish were the only thing on the screen that moved.

First computer owned:

My first computer that I owned was one that had been the family computer but my sister left for college with her own laptop and my parents got a new computer and let me keep the old computer in my room so I didn’t take up all the time on their computer.

Positive Impact:

A positive impact that a computer made in my life was probably any essay I ever wrote in high school with a computer because of easy research, summaries on poems that I didn’t understand, and word processing in general, making it easier to arrange my thoughts.

Negative Impact:

Facebook and youtube distract me a lot while writing papers and reading articles. I’ll read a few paragraphs and then get bored and see the facebook or youtube tab on my window and open a new tab to talk to friends or watch cute cat videos.

Computer parts:

Modem, disk drive, memory chip, hard drive, keyboard, usb port, display screen

Data back-up:

I have a portable hard drive that I back up my files, mainly pictures, documents, and music, every month or so. It’s a small, thin, blue hard drive that u just plug into a usb port and move files over.

Non-internet:

Paint, picture editing, video making, webcam pictures, itunes

Network accounts:

Facebook, youtube, twitter, space coast bank, suntrust bank, hotmail, blogger, Pandora, ebay, fsu, skype, oovoo, Comcast payment, word press, myfrenchlab, myspace, itunes

Store data in cloud:

Email account, pictures to fb

Frequent:

Youtube, blackboard

Distraction rotation:

Facebook, email, youtube,

Media:

No blogs, news, or tumblers