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Thoughts on Learning To Love You More

Learning To Love You More was a project that is separated into "projects" which are assignments for participants to "report" on. The projects that participants are asked to report on range from things like "teach us an exercise" to "make the saddest song."

What is most interesting to me about the Learning To Love You More project is that the projects that are given to participants are very different. Some of the projects ask them to explain a process like recreating a snapshot, but some of them ask them to perform simple, loving actions like spending time with a dying person.

This project speaks to me because the tasks given to participants force them to do things and think about things about their lives and others lives that they might not have otherwise done or thought about. Aside from making the participants do and think outside of the box things, it also connects them with other participants who are doing the same things with their lives. If I had been a participant in this project, having that connection with others doing the same things with their lives would have given me a sense that we weren't only changing ourselves and growing as individuals, but that we were helping to change and teach the world.

Thoughts on 253

"In cyberspace, people become places."

 This line on the homepage of 253's website is one that I feel is extremely accurate. It is simple enough, but I feel like it's overall message is very profound. 

When we form relationships with people in person, we don't consider their location as much as we do when we begin to form a connection with people who may not be as accessible to us. When you begin to converse with and form relationships with people in different places around the country or around the globe, you begin to associate the place they are from with the identity of that person much more than you do with people you've met and formed a relationship with in person. When you've formed a connection with someone in cyberspace, from that point on you will associate that place with that person. The person you've met has become that place to you.

Thoughts on Wikipedia

I believe that Wikipedia can be useful for people to get information that they don't intend to use in a paper or for anything else where the information needs to be factual without a doubt. For example, Wikipedia can be a great resource for someone to look up a topic that they had heard about but knew nothing about just to get a general overview of it.

I generally use Wikipedia to look up people such as actors and other artists that I like to find out a little bit of background on them just because it's interesting to me. I also like to use it to look up places that I would like to visit some day to read a bit about their history.

Wikipedia has been gathering quite a bit of resources for a lot of entries and I think that helps the entries with the most resources listed to be more credible because it shows that the information was gathered from other places and wasn't just written based on what someone thought.

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