Twitter And Women's Hockey?

Currently I am in Fernie, BC, on a snowboarding trip!! Yesterday we watched the Canadian Women's Hockey team play in he gold medal game against the US. As many of you saw or know, we WON!!! We were down 2-0 fort hew hole game until the last three minutes in the third period. At this time we scored two goals and played in overtime where we ended up scoring and winning in sudden death! Woo!!

However, after the game, fans against Canada started posting on twitter with the hashtag of #F***Canada and #USA. One post on twitter even says:"If you aren't upset about this game, you can just go ahead and pack your bags and move to Canada because we don't want you. #USA #F***Canada". People then retweeted this post and even commented that the women's game didn't count and the "real" game is today (because it's the men who are playing - not the women." 

One person posted “If #Canada's Women's Hockey Team had won Silver, we would be celebrating, not being mean-spirited. #F***Canada is a hashtag for #SoreLosers." I agree with this post! 

To sum up my post, I think technology is used (unfortunately) for both negative and positive media or publicity. This is a great learning lesson to teach kids though. Not everything you see in the media or on the internet is true or real. Furthermore, some things you see might not be as obvious as #F***Canada but this can really teach kids to view things they see and read on the internet through a critical lens. 

In some situations there are ideas which present themselves and show you what to do, and also what not to do. This specific twitter controversy proves to do both. 

Online!

I made myself a profile on the website "VisualCV." It is currently in the process of being edited and worked on! I think this is a fantastic way for employers to "google" you and find out great things about you. The internet can be very positive and it can also be negative. It is up to you as an individual to make sure that it is viewed as positive for your current and future employers.

I "googled" myself and below you will see the results that came up. I was recently married last year, so I googled both my new and old name.

My first name (old name) came up with results such as pinterest, twitter, Facebook, youtube, google+ (not surprising). However... I was creeped out when I clicked on "images." I found images of me and one photo is from when I was in grade 7 or 8! I don't know how that got on there. In total, 6 pictures came up of me!

I then googled my new name and results came up with twitter, Facebook, pinterest, and the rest of the results were really not about me. No photos of me came up with googling "Alannah Jackson," however LOTS of photos came up - of ALAN Jackson! We look quite a bit different!

I feel like there is more on me in the internet from my prior last name, however not as much with my new last name. I liked googling myself because it made me think about what future employers will see when they google me! I have nothing that I wouldn't want a future employer to see, so it relaxes me in that way!