User:Twoan1

My name is Tansy Woan and am currently studying as a PPL Major at Binghamton University. I am an 18-year-old Taiwanese-American female who grew up in Binghamton my entire life. (jealous much?)

Technology has always been a huge part of my life since my father works with computers at IBM. I grew up at a young age with computers, and have grown completely dependent upon them as well as my beloved cell phone which I would die without. Technology helps me to keep in touch with friends and family. It also helps me access a wealth of information via the internet that previously I would have not had access to. I find it actually has had a positive influence on my life. While most people find technology to have greatly distracted them from work, (e.g. TV) I find that it has helped me to become a far more productive student and helps me to organize a lot of my work/research.

I most effectively communicate via email and cannot stand when people do not check their email 1000 times every day like I do. I find it easiest to get out everything you need to say without having to worry about talking on the phone and getting distracted and going off on tangents talking about other unimportant things or talking on aim which gets annoying when too many people are im'ing you all at the same time. Also, since email is all stored online it is easy to go back and see when appointments were made and what words were exchanged so there is no confusion about anything.

I least effectively communicate via phone because when you are on the phone with someone discussing an important upcoming meeting or assignment, it's easy to get distracted and start talking about our day and that cute guy we saw sitting in our math class earlier, etc. It is also almost impossible to reach me via phone since I almost never pick up my cell so most people get frustrated with that. =X

I'm not sure the context of the questions really affected my responses since I didn't try to answer the questions in a way that would relate to the freedom of speech class, I just answered them as if a friend had asked me them.