Introduction- What's in a name?

Week one has been all about familiarizing myself with web101 the discussion boards, lecture notes and curtin university. Griffith University has been my 'online home' for the past few years although similar they are very different. This unit is one of four left to finish my degree.
Week one was all about learning about students and their online uses. (A thought)The internet is great that it does not discriminate against age, gender or location. That was my realization during week one, students are all ages and we all have one thing in common..to learn.
I actually thought that I knew my way around the internet but really I have walked around the outside of it admiring the exterior without ever knowing what is inside.
Criminology is my degree that I am completing and web101 I thought would compliment it by teaching me how the internet works behind the shutters! Internet crime is rising and the laws are slow to catch up so for me it will be interesting to learn how web pages are created and what exactly is the internet. So who am I online?? Good question;

Have you used email this week?

As I write this I am checking my blackberry constantly for a flashing red light. I send/recieve emails 24 hours a day ( feels like it sometimes). Between work,study
personal life and my online existance it is my main choice of communication.

Have you used a social networking site in the last week?

I am ashamed to say that I may suffer Compulsive Facebook Disorder. I am always checking it and recieving updates. I laughed when on criminal minds agent Rossi commented

" Can somebody explain to me the appeal of these sites? "Eating sushi tonight yum." "Boss is keeping me late tonight grrr." Whose life is so important that we'd be interested in this kind of detail?

Umm..I just posted..making roast for dinner..yum ( oopps)

Have you watched video content online in the last week?

I have been watching utube a bit this week, miranda lambert mainly. I watched family video's posted on facebook ( my cousins little boy can use chop sticks...)

Have you created media in the past week?

I uploaded some photo's of my boys on facebook..very proud mother here

This week our tasks include signing up and creating usernames to online groups like wordpres delicious twitter,flickr, blogger, linkedin and friendfeed. Finally after several attempts on namechk.com I found a name that I could use at all the websites..dddmyboys78 (After my boys dillon, dale and dale).
I must have sat at my computer for over an hour trying to create a user-name I even searhed google for 'creative usernames' which was no help. So until next week...