Charity and technology

"If you have no charity, ye are nothing,..." applies in social networking that each person is supported by love from others. Why do users post something funny and send a message to someone in the famous social networking like Facebook and Twitter? This is mostly because they want to pay attention that someone like their posts or comments. That's how they feel good and love about themselves, and they will start liking other's posts. Charity creates a wonderful society that users get to respect and honest each other in networking, and technology helps users share their charity with those who they love regardless of how far they live. Humans deserve more charity by others to build confidence about themselves, and technology aids with it.

Twitter during general conference

The most interesting thing for me as the first time user is a limited amount of character entry for input. After listening to President Monson's speech, it inspired me to share the long quote he used in Twitter, but it was required for me to summarize his quote and my thoughts because of limited amount of character entry. It's positive about the limitation because it is effective and easy for other users to read and quickly comment back. Also, it is useful for users who need a summarized message or an important message from each speaker. Twitter is a capable tool for me to access an unique community where users can share their thoughts and perspective about an event.  

If we die tomorrow, ...?

 The most universal regret dying patients expressed was that they wished they had spent more time with the people they love. If I would die tomorrow, I would have felt the same thing what they expressed. The earth life is a very short time from eternal perspective. It's time to rethink our priority and how much time we have spent with our beloved one rather than just go with flow of life spending much time playing TV game, facebook, and easily addicted materials. We can change ourselves and start treasuring up something in heaven not under the ground of earth where moth will eat. 

Literary Extravaganza Assignment

1. Haiku
What a heck!
My program is not working...
Ouch, the file was unsaved before running.

2. Poem
In computer science class,
I see a beautiful woman sitting in my side
Her smile is like an angels wings
A diamond sparkling on her ring finger...
Guess I'm in wrong major if I want to get married.

3. Short story
One day, I named a variable, "Single" in my program. The variable was stuck in infinite loop. I guessed I would be single forever.

Video Post

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QET8KTOaWQ&feature=youtu.be

Human needs community to support each other

The story of the "Pro-Anna" girls as example from the book "Here Comes Everybody" moved me. The story shows the new possibility for people who find themselves in a minority. Without internet, the "Pro-Anna" girls might feel alone themselves because they might be teased and criticized in public. The example shows what is now possible for people who find themselves in minority, who want to share applied information for them, and who live in social settings that are unhelpful to their objectives. Now, these people can have access to community what they need. The book changed my perspective of the Internet and helped me realize that it creates an important community allowing people to approach to the most essential of human needs.

Powerful technology in church

Mormon.org has been launched since few years ago, and the features on the website amazed me. It contains video portraying the life of a member and a family and testimonies from members in the world. This recalled me of Matthew 5:13 saying, "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good work, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." Once a member shares an good example and testimony like shining her or his light before men, maybe this inspires people who are looking for the gospel and heal less active members. It's a great opportunity for us to share our testimonies for those who need and hear while we have such a powerful technology. Technology will be a great advantage if we do something with it.