Online System that has helped my education

Unlike most people, I am a fan of change. I rarely get upset when a company decides to change a program I am accustomed to. With that said, when it comes to education I admit I am a bit of a dinosaur. I generally keep to the basics in terms of educational tools; my pen, my paper, and-as of recently-my laptop, so when someone asks me about an online tool that has assisted my education I honestly draw blanks. The only exception to this is most certainly dropbox, a very useful tool I was only recently introduced to. You see dropbox allows me to access any files I have stored in it on any computer in the world, all you need is internet access and you're set. I can't count the number of times I or a friend of mine has had to take a taxi cab to rush back home because we forgot a file on our computer at home. There's a reason dropbox has over a billion uploads per day[1]. It really has changed the way I handle my school work.



[1] http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13970_7-57571513-78/dropbox-clears-1-billion-file-uploads-per-day/

Social Media

As a 25 year old in 2014 I have more than a little experience with social media. My first experience with it was in 2004-2005 when hi5 was first becoming popular. I was in boarding school and all my friends were creating accounts so I made one, but never really used it. By the time I had moved to Canada in 2006 hi5 was going the way of disco as everyone had moved on to Facebook and this is where my real relationship with social media begins.

You see I spent the first 18 years of my life in Nigeria and upon graduating from our equivalent of high school me and my friends all went to different universities in on different continents. Keeping in touch would have been very difficult were it not for Facebook. To this date this is my main use of Facebook, keeping in touch with all my friends across the globe. Just the fact that every now and then I might see a Facebook status from a friend who I haven't spoken to in years can go a long way to helping me keep in touch.

So this is what social media means to me.