Gunner Ellsworth Period 1 Scott Cleary Argumentative Blog Post “A trend is just peer pressure, but from everybody” –Gunner Ellsworth The definition of a trend is, “a fashion that is currently being used and abused by everyone” This means that trends are just a perception of what is going on. They can start or disappear as quickly as a breeze and are created by one or many people, which expands quickly. There are a lot of people nowadays who are afraid of trends “hipsters”. However, I think that trends are very important and beneficial. Trends are essentially peer pressure, which people think is bad, but most of the trends that go on are either neutral or actually beneficial to the community. Two examples of positive trends are Trends are often used to raise money for a favorable cause. In addition, trends in social media have made improvements in our community to do a sort of preen up for our facility’s around the globe. The reasons that trends are a positive include how Trends are often used to raise money for a favorable cause. In addition, trends in mobile devices and social media have made improvements in our community to do a sort of preen up to all our facility’s around the globe. Firstly, trends are often use to raise money for a favorable cause. An article on the ALS ice bucket challenge says, “However it began, it’s certainly gone viral, and has raised millions. The ESPN blog post noted that, as of August 20, “According to the ALS Association, in the two-week span — July 29 to Aug. 14 — after the Ice Bucket Challenge began, almost 146,000 new donors have come on board. During that period, $7.6 million was donated to the ALS Association’s various chapters, compared with $1.4 million during the same period in 2013. The national office was particularly flush, receiving $5.5 million of those donations, compared with $32,000 in the same period last year.” Without the ALS ice bucket challenge there would have never been all that money donated to ALS so this shows that even a peer pressure induced trend turned into something marvelous and I am sure ALS would thank us for that. Another article tells us, “Libraries are faced with the challenge of providing students with resources anytime, anywhere. But there is more to being mobile friendly than offering a library app.” This shows us that the libraries around the globe are improving because of the increase of mobile use trends that are some making the libraries have to improve their facilities so this trend is making our libraries better. The first source talks about trends, and how they are changing everything. Especially tech trends, it talks about how the internet and cell phones are making libraries irrelevant. The other source supports this idea by saying new and upcoming trends are in fact happening and improving our world. It takes a different angle though in saying that improvement that the trends are bringing is beneficial, and help society with things such as the ALS ice bucket challenge. They also are in accord with one another on the topic of how tech and social media trends are the most common because of our growing dependence on them. If we spend all our time somewhere then it is going to have the most trends and improve the most. Trends are good though depite being peer pressure and both sources clearly show this. Gunner Ellsworth Period 1 Scott Cleary Argumentative Blog Post The book we read was called feed, it was written using a lot of weird made up phrases just recognizable enough that you could understand what was going on but it was as if a first grader wrote it. (I know this was intentional.) In this novel, you notice that the characters see many trends come and go in the course of the book. Our topic that we wanted to focus on was how trends affect individuality. In the article “The Librarian’s Guide to Intersecting Tech Trends” The author said, Mobile is not a new trend but continues to grow in importance. Brian Solis of the Altimeter group writes, “The entire Web will be re-imagined for a mobile-first and mobile-only world…This radically transforms the purpose of the web to become more dynamic, personal and useful at a time when people are forcing the end of a traditional information-broadcast, page/form-based, keyword world. “ This interesting quote tells us about how important mobile devices are. It teaches us about the trend that is going on in these latter days dealing with everyone having a mobile phone, and how it is weird or unaccepted not to have one. Another Article called, “What is the Ice Bucket Challenge, anyway?” In this article, there is a quote that synthesizes with the quote mentioned previously. “However it began, it’s certainly gone viral, and has raised millions. The ESPN blog post noted that, as of August 20, “According to the ALS Association, in the two-week span — July 29 to Aug. 14 — after the Ice Bucket Challenge began, almost 146,000 new donors have come on board. During that period, $7.6 million was donated to the ALS Association’s various chapters, compared with $1.4 million during the same period in 2013. The national office was particularly flush, receiving $5.5 million of those donations, compared with $32,000 in the same period last year.” This quote from this source shows that some trends can be good for our environment or community. The social media trend of the ALS ice bucket challenge was beneficial even though it still was peer pressure it was a peer pressure that was beneficial. Both sources both compared and contrasted in the aspect of trends. The first sources refutes some of the trends where the second one is in full support of a social media trend that is going on called the ALS ice bucket challenge. The first article that opposes trends says, “Devices are becoming more common in the teaching and learning environment. Libraries are faced with the challenge of providing students with resources anytime, anywhere.” This source talks about how technology is taking over the informational industry, people cannot not have a mobile device because we rely so heavily on them. This shows that the trend of mobile devices is making people lose their individuality and not really letting people succeed without a device. The other sources opinion on this is that is shows that some trends are good and actually beneficial. The posit that while some trends might be discriminatory most aren’t and they really can be helpful. These sources show different sides of trends one is beneficial and one has difficulties. All trends are peer pressure essentially though and both sources portray this. The first sources wealth of information helps the second sources claim as well by showing how tech trends made the ALS ice bucket possible which is a good thing.