This website is sooo weird to navigate. I think I'm in the right spot though.
Hi everyone! I'm Jesse, and this is my first year in college. I'm majoring in psychology, and I work with accessibility resources and help other students with stuff related to Microsoft Office, Google Suite, Moodle, and other computer related stuff. I plan on going to OSU after this to continue my studies.
Outside of work and school stuff, my main hobby is art. I'm on and off with posting my work publicly because despite how much I love social media, it also makes me really anxious. I'm especially interested in character design and working on my own stories, but I also love to make fanwork for all the different stuff that I'm invested in. I have a passion for horror movies, TV, and videogames which I love to discuss with my friends. My favorite...
Movies are: The Thing (1982), Aliens (1986)
Shows are: Common Side Effects, Kaiba (2008)
Games is: Psychonauts
It's really hard to decide what I'm most excited about after reviewing the syllabus, but I'll force myself to pick one and say the TV/Streaming unit.
My main sources of information include Google, Twitter, and YouTube. I lean towards Google and YouTube when I'm actively researching a topic, because I know I can find reliable sources and various different perspectives there. Websites like Twitter and Instagram frequently give me updates about the news, so that's where I learn about most things first. I think Google is hard to pin down as either reliable or unreliable because it's just a search engine, but I'm leaning towards calling it reliable. I do my best to find sources by people who know what they're talking about, have sources themselves, have other people backing up what they say, have expertise on the subject, and so on. Twitter and Instagram's reliability can be pretty shaky, I think it depends on what it is that you're looking into. Reddit is also a fairly good place for finding information, if it's more practical. For example, if my computer is doing something weird that I don't know how to fix, someone out there has had the same issue as me and knows how to get around it. I don't think I would use Reddit for stuff like political opinions.
I find myself decently concerned about the spread of misinformation over the internet, because it can lead to people taking actions that will have devastating consequences on themselves or those around them. When I come across information that I want to review the truthfulness of, I first check what other people are saying about the subject. Then I take it upon myself to go to Google and find more information. I do my best to use .org or .edu websites, and then .com sites with a generally good reputation. I'd like to add books as a major source of information and fact-checking, but I haven't gotten there yet. Really, I don't end up taking many precautions before spreading information around, and that's something I'd like to change. I don't have a large platform, and I mostly reshare things I learn to my small friend group, but even small actions like that can take what I say and make it spiral out of control.
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