Topic 3: Power: After watching the online lecture, the related interviews and readings, write about how you engage/avoid/ or influence other consumers. Select just one of these behaviours and provide specific examples about your actions. Have you used change.org? Have you written on trip advisor? Reflect on your actions. Discuss where relevant: How do you feel about your behaviour? How did your actions impact on other people or the brand? Why do you choose not to influence others?

In my opinion, I have the ability to influence other consumer decisions or responses. I always share my thinking, my experience and my evaluating about a product or a service to my family, my friends or through the social network such as a post on facebook or a photo on Instagram that relative to the products or services that I had been experience. For example, I had purchased some products online which are keyboard, books, or clothes that are sold by some private businesses through their facebook pages. After receiving the products and used for certain days, I back to the posts of that products and commented my feedback which including my experience and my evaluating about it, in order to give more practical information about the quality of the products or services for others consumers who are willing to purchase.

Therefore they can make a better decision. In addition, I also made feedbacks for some restaurants or hotels that I have been there on my trips, about the food, the quality of the rooms and services, or others things that affect the customer feelings such as location, prices, or the security. Customers will base on the information that others customers give to decide whether purchase or not purchase the products and they can also get the suggestions for other choices, which make they feel more confident about their decision.

Will you buy a product that receive many positive feedback from other customers or purchase a product that is criticized by people about it quality but was well-advertised by the company?

I have never used Trip advisor because I did not travel much but in the future, after my graduation, I believe I would travel more and give more suggestions as well as information about the trips for all the people who would like to know more about where they are going to, how would it be and is there any another choices for them to choose. I believe that my behavior, my feedback or the information I provide will make others customers have a wider look and be more lucid to make a decision. This would reduce all the risks and the cost for customers when they purchase an item or joining a service.

Topic 2 : Digital Disconnect. Do not use social media for 24 hours. You must do this in order to experience being disconnected. Your blog post should reflect on the experience

Since social media has strongly affected to people in the past 10 years, and checking social media everyday has been a habitat of most people who use internet nowadays, disconnecting social media for 1 day is one of the most difficult challenges I have ever done in my life.

I started to switch off my social media at 11pm, before going to sleep.  And it immediately affected my activities. I usually surf facebook before I go to sleep and at the night without facebook, I could not chat and discussed about the soccer matches that taking place at that moment with my friends. That made me feel alone but later I can fall asleep easily. I woke up at 10am and as usual, the first thing I did was picking my phone and checked the conversation as well as the messages. But I already deleted the facebook application on my phone so I could not receive any messages or conversation announcement. I began to miss the social media world where I can see my family or my friends activities. I had my lunch at 11pm in a food court nearby where I realized most of the people who sat alone, from the teenagers to middle-age people, had paid their attention on the phone rather than things around, same as my behavior when I can use social media. After the lunch, I went to school at had the most effective lesion so far, since I paid most of my attention on the lecture although there are still sometimes that I usually check my phone at the beginning of the class. After this class, I started to notice all the classes I joined and recognized that there are at least 10% students of each class usually use their phones in class and paid less attention to the lecturer.

After the class, I went home at 6pm and had my dinner at home. I watched a movie that I downloaded on my laptop before, while I was having my dinner. In this time, I started to think of my friends and my family again and really wanted to connect to the social network to see if anything was happen. At this time, there were 2 voices usually come up in my mind, one urged me to connect to the social media and the other tried to stop me not to do so. After finished a movie at 9pm, I tried to do errands which is cleaning my room, washing my clothes and had a walk around my place until 10:30pm. That could be considered as an exercise, which I have not usually done since I started to stay home and focus on my laptop. After taking a shower until 11pm, I downloaded my facebook application and tried to contact everyone and tell them my experiences. That night, I used facebook, read news and watched video clips until 2 am even though I was very sleepy.
Actually the experience was not bad as I thought before I disconnect the social media and thanks to this, I believe I will be able to not become so dependent to the social media.

Topic 1: My Digital World. What do you like about the digital age? What aspects of digital communication interest you? What do you want to know more about? Finally, pose/formulate ONE question about digital communication you would like to ask a digital expert.

At first, what is a digital age? The digital age can be understood as an age that computers, technologies or media are the best  tool for us to communicate and transfer the information to each other. Specifically say, it is an age of information. Technology such as computers and network has made a huge impact in the society. With the development of technology, especially the advent of computers and networks, people have much more abilities to transmit the information or to communicate to others. Network has helped people to connect to each other much easier. For example, if in the past, people have to make a meeting to meet each other or have to wait for many days to receive the reply through letters, or a phone call that just can talk to each other without seeing the faces or emotion and it cost a lot. Nowadays, we can call and see our family or our friends directly through Skype anytime and anywhere we want with a laptop, a smartphone or a tablet.

The other things I like about the digital age is most of things including shopping, watching news, advertising or trading can be directly done online, which make us feel more convenient. For example, nowadays, thanks to social network such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or blogs, we can chat, make community or discuss about an event immediately with many friends or rangers at one. We know more about people characteristics, people thinking and for most of people who are internal, I believe that social network is the best place for them to show up their thinking and their confidence. And that is the most things that digital communication has interested me, which allow people to approach each other easier. Moreover, for companies and businesses, in the digital age, using television or radio to advertise has been taken by advertising through social media and online websites. In addition, online transactions such as online banking, online shopping or online stock exchange are also the utilities in the digital age. All of these activities have been widely popular and affected our lives strongly because of the benefits it brought such as the reduction of cost (cost of transportation, advertising etc.), conveniences, or the wider community.

The digital age represent the evolution of humans.  However, is there anyways that can improve the benefits which social media brings and how better the community has become during the digital age compare to the past.

My question for the digital expert about the digital communication is:” How would the digital communication become if there is no more internet available on the world?”

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