Holiday Traditions

       During Christmastime my family has a variety of traditions. We decorate the house and tree together, we make Christmas cookies to give to friends and family, and we even wrap some presents together. Some traditions are more important to me though. Every Christmas Eve I go to my Aunt's house along with my parents and siblings. Every year my aunt invites all of her family members and prepares dinner for them. We all eat, open presents, and talk to each other because I don't get to see my cousins and aunts and uncles that often. Usually by 11 o' clock my family starts heading back home to go to bed for the night, but before we do that my parents let me open one of my presents. Then I head up to bed excited for the next morning.

       As soon as I wake up on Christmas day, I go downstairs to our fireplace where all of my presents are stacked up. There are five stacks usually, one for each one of my brothers and my one sister. We take turns opening presents one at a time until we're all done and then we immediately leave for my grandparents' house. When we get there my grandma already has breakfast prepared and we eat. Directly following eating we exchange gifts and usually leave in a hurry because my mom has to prepare dinner for the family that comes over every Christmas day. They usually arrive around five and don't leave until at least midnight. We have fun playing games and talking about the different gifts we received earlier that morning. This is probably the event I look forward to the most, being with my aunts and uncles from both my mom's and dad's side of the family on Christmas day.

Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking is a way to share great websites with other people all around the world. Instead of bookmarking a website on one computer, save it to a social bookmarking website and have access to it at any time. Social Bookmarking is very useful to a friend or coworker trying to share a website with his colleagues. The person can just say follow my diigo instead of trying to write down a long complicated URL. I will use it in my school by saving a good informational website for a project on it and making it available to my peers so they can use the quality website. In my personal life, I will save websites with something that might entertain my friends and I.

RSS Feed

An RSS feed makes the life of a computer user easy. Instead of having to go to every individual website, someone with a RSS feed can just go to their feed and save a ton of time. All of the users favorite websites are in one easy place and it is updated automatically with new posts. This tool is most useful to a frequent computer user who checks a variety of sites daily. This tool will be useful to me because it will save me time and make my life easier. When I get home I will only have to check one place and not ten to fifteen.

Technology and Me

I use technology every day in many different aspects of my life. I use my cellphone for hours every day, I also watch television, go on the computer, and play video games. Technology is a large part of my life because it always effects what I am doing. For example, if there is a homework assignment and I have to find information for I will use my computer or phone, not an encyclopedia or dictionary. Technology can help me do anything from communicating with my friends, no matter where they are, to warming up something to eat that was from dinner last night. Without technology my life would not be the same because I depend on it so much and take it for granted. When the power goes out I don't even know what to do with myself because I depend on technology to entertain me. So basically, my life would not be the same without technology.