Media and Society Blog Assignment Day 1

March 27, Wednesday.

At 1:07a.m., I am still awake. In the Philippines, it is two in the afternoon.

I would usually listen to AlJazeera.com — the news television network’s website — while browsing the internet. My roommate’s television remained off, too. In this particular time, I decided not to watch news online. I was on a Google Hangout video conference with former classmates. Google Hangout is a video chat service in the social networking site Google+. Unlike Skype, a group of up to ten people can have a group conference for free. (A group conference in Skype of more than two people is too costly for me.)

When they had to leave and be at a meeting about their graduation on April 2, I had to log out of Google Hangout, too. And then there’s Facebook. Waiting to be clicked, on the right side of my newsfeed, are advertisements. One was a food advertisement, one was a thriller book on Amazon, one was an HTC One offer, and another one was Home Depot Gift Card sweepstake.

At 8:20a.m., after my American National Government class, I opened Facebook again. The right side bar of the newsfeed still had the advertisements.

At 9:00a.m., I was on YouTube watching Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago videos and tweeting some of it on Twitter.

Throughout the whole afternoon, I was either in class or in my room watching other YouTube videos.

1. Internet

• Facebook adverts
• Facebook links on websites by Facebook Friends
• E-mail adverts
• YouTube adverts

This is a Media and Society Blogging assignment on our media "contacts." Day 1 of 5.