August 17, 2002 was my first day in the USA, I Came from Jeddah city in my country Saudi Arabia in order to work as a training officer. Since I got on the plan I was thinking how is going to be my life how can I live alone specially that I came from a society that cares about family connection rather than anything else. However, I arrived in Dulles airport; I was impressed to green everywhere, nice highway, and heavy trafficJ.
Since then I started studying and every day I learn something new, until I took my ITEC300 class “social net working”, I knew that I didn’t learn anything. I was not expecting the kind of huge technology that we have reached such as internet, blogs, messenger, chatting, second life tech, and virtual team. I’m really amazed from what I learned in this class, I realized that the existence of new technology made our life smaller, as if we live in a one place not a huge world anymore.
People live in Saudi Arabia can chat, talk, and see others in different continent while are sitting on the couch drinking their coffee, and won’t cost them more than cents believe it or not. Whereas couple years ago you only can do that by face to face conversation or watch them trough the TV and if you want to talk to someone that isn’t in your area will cost dollars if not hundreds.
No matter how old you are, from where you are, what race or sex you are. All are human talk in one language; if these rules apply, you can get the advantages of this huge revelation. In marketing, business in general, forms friendship, volunteer organization. Moreover, it could help to change courtiers’ diplomacy not only small organization or institution.
Finally, I wish for all my classmate and Prof. Melander best wishes in their life
khaled is an Arabic name, and its my name as well. It means forever
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- I'm part-time senior,and this is my last semster at American University.I'm full-time employee as well.
2 comments:
Hi Khaled,
Thanks for contributing to our class. I like your contributions in class and I felt that your presence always benefited everyone present. I wish you all the best of luck in the future.
Jeff
I think it is amazing what our world has come to. I myself remember being 14 years old in 1998 and living in New Delhi where I used a dial-up modem. Being able to stay connected with my friends in the US was a great thing, as they were already using AOL.The internet was fairly new to members of my family.
Your 3rd and 4th paragraphs really made me stop and think about where we were and where we are now. The unfortunate thing is that while we have more avenues by which to stay connected with or meet new people, we are still worlds apart.
I wish people would really understand that all our talk is in one language. We really are one. We all experience the same at the death of a loved one, the birth of a child, and the joy of happiness. I know it's not that easy, but it doesn't hurt to read and try and understand.
I enjoyed your post. Thanks & good luck to you too.
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