Blog 1 - Dr. Massie - Mass Communication

Hello readers! My name is Samantha Litchert, but everyone calls me Sami so I would like to invite you to do the same. I am a senior who attends Kutztown University and I major in Communication with a minor in Public Relation. I have a few goals that I would like to accomplish before my time ends on this beautiful world. One of my goals is to change someone’s life for the better. I always wanted to be an inspiration to someone. Helping people is something I absolutely love doing. A second goal I have is to become a facilitator. I would love to be that person that companies, camps, schools, etc. call to come and facilitate icebreakers and team builders for them. A third goal I have is simply to stay positive. I have learned over the years that there is so much to life and negativity should not be one of them.

Enough about me; now I would like to share my reflection of my professor’s blog.

There are a few things that I agree Dr. Massie’s blog. First, I enjoyed the way he worded and phrased how social media takes an impact on our society today. How he put the word friends in quotation marks. It is true that people make a lot more friends online but never meet them. How is a friend defined? Can a friendship exist on social media alone? Should friendships go outside of the internet and exist in front of your eyes in flesh and bones? Who has the answer to these questions? Personally, I believe friendships could exist through social media alone, but I also believe they should exist before one’s eyes in flesh and bone as well.

This blog was short but had a lot of information to obtain. I enjoyed the quote Dr. Massie started his blog with, “You never step into the same river twice.” Quoted by Heraclitus. This had me ponder about what it meant. My understanding of this quote is if you step into a river, leave for two minutes to three years away, the water will change. The water you stepped into the first time will not make contact with your foot again. Our life is the same way. We decided to do something and we will never do it exactly that way again. The change could be something as a new air to breathe at the time or a whole new destination. Life is short. Live it the best way you can and do it the best way possible. There is always room for misstates. Own up to your mistakes and fix them in the future, do not hide from them.