Ambient Awareness, Just Another Type Of Awareness,

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Ambient awareness, just another type of awareness, or a plagiarized form of Self awareness.‎ Clive Thompsons essay uses a “hook” encompassing Logos and Pathos strategies interchangeably. His time ‎line of the development of “Facebook”, and the decisions made about “News Feeds” and the initial reactions ‎of the students was riveting. The essay using a multitude of resources bring forth a genesis of awareness not ‎experienced by most non-students, and baby boomers. In my psych-101 profile of becoming who I am, I ‎thought we were all trying to achieve Self awareness, and in so doing perfecting our self esteem. Self ‎awareness and self esteem are often mixed up. Self awareness is the ability to perceive aspects of our ‎personality, behavior, emotions, motivations and thought process. Self esteem is the opinion you have of ‎yourself and your value as a person. Having good self awareness is very important, you must know yourself in ‎order to improve, and self awareness is just being able to accept who you are in your own skin. Self esteem is ‎how you perceive yourself, and how you may be perceived in the eyes of others. Whether you are shy or not, ‎or being able to make decisions for yourself is all about self esteem. (MLA citation). People spend years ‎educating themselves, and testing and experimenting with theories and tests in order to create a knowledge ‎base and a bullet proof self esteem, but with “Ambient awareness” we may not have to self improve at all. ‎Laura Fittons ability to solve any problem within minutes, with her twitter network is a clear affirmation to ‎using the intelligence of others. This similar to my argument against “Google” and other powerful search ‎engines, Pre search engine, the student had to research a subject in depth, even to just find out what resources ‎they would need to create their argument, now all you need is the correct

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