Square Eyes

Yesterday in the tutorial my group presented our online community, Fairfux to the class.

I would have posted this blog yesterday however our group had worked SO long and hard getting the presentation completed on time, that our priorities lay at the guild bar! Aaah, a beer was never so refreshing!

But to the point of this blog: the way that our presentation actually got completed was because of online chat. Ironic that it was for an subject about online communities. Arranging meetings at a time that 5 people can attend is terribly difficult, so therefore MSN Messenger became the tool for communication. I had never used it before to chat to 5 people at once about an assignment, but I definitely think I will do it again because it is easier than working around people's jobs, social life and university timetable.

I don't think its until you go to university (or even QUT) that you realise how much you rely on a computer! All week I've been glued to my computer screen writing assignments and chatting to friends. "We are moving toward a culture of simulation in which people are increasingly comfortable with substituting representations of reality for the real" (Flew, 2004, p.65) ... well I think nowadays its vital for me to substitute the real for the virtual if I hope to get through uni!