After joining the sharing session of Oscar Lee, I want to express my feeling and opinion towards the topic: What is the importance of DATA?
Since social media is the most powerful source and platform for people to express an opinion and share photos and videos, people around society and the world could be influencers or reporters. Oscar Lee mentioned that this phenomenon makes lots of noise in which people could use their first-hand information to pack a new story. I agree with the saying of Oscar Lee. For instance, there are lots of bloggers present their own points of view towards social issues, open “live" in Facebook for the audience to know about the actual situation of some social issues, or even create their own YouTube or Facebook channel to comment hot topic or issues in the world or society. These are all User-generated content (UGC). It is totally beyond the growth of professional user-generated content from a large and professional media companies.
Moreover, Oscar also points out that data is very important nowadays. The founder of NETFLIX, Reed Hastings once said that interview could lie but data will not. This is because of data record the behavior of people. You can see what is people behavior such as their habits on listening to a song, habits on watching movies or video, and even what kind of social issues they most care about. However, interview does lie because people will pretend to be a healthy or artistic person under interview our in the focus group you make.
In my opinion, data is important undoubtedly. The qualitative or quantitative research you did exists limitations. What indeed the facts in front of you are data that you could find or analyze by computer, software or database.
I hope you have a chance listening to Oscar’s sharing, lots of information you could get from and the experience he faced before.
This post is going to introduce scuba diving which is my favorite hobby! In many people’s minds, scuba diving is a high-risk aerobic exercise or sports. However, do you try to understand the procedure or safety measures before underwater?
First, I am going to introduce you to watch the following video related to the scuba gear that keeps you safe underwater. As a scuba diving beginner, you should first familiar with your gear.
This video mainly introduces scuba gears of mask, snorkel, fin(full-feet and the open one) , regulators (sometimes I call it octopus as it looks like an octopus with four plastic throats), BCDs – buoyancy control device (wings style and jacket style), and wet suit. I personally suggest that a beginner should use jacket style BCDs which is better for them to learn how to control the buoyancy.
For a beginner to learn scuba diving, I always suggest them to buy their mask and fin first instead of buying the whole set of gear. since not everyone of them know which scuba gear best suit them and which one is more suitable for them or easy for them to control.
Next, eliminate your doubt of Scuba diving…
Two of the questions beginners always ask:
Q1: What if I can’t breath underwater? Am I going to die if there’s no oxygen in my tank?
First, there are different types of scuba diving. I mean there are people mainly do leisure diving, hunting, or photos taking etc. For beginners, they will learn how to dive safely when doing leisure diving. The basic knowledge of open water (beginner) is to know how to check the content of gas inside the tank by using the gage on the regulator. Moreover, every dive we must set off with a buddy. If, unfortunately you are out of air, your buddy can use his/her spare regulator to provide you air. What I’ve just mentioned is “safe". So, we all need to buddy check the content of gas constantly.
Q2: I always heard the news about some sickness because of scuba diving, what is it about and why would it happened?
What people always concerned is “decompression sickness" underwater or after scuba diving. It happened if a diver tries to surface too quickly. The dissolve nitrogen comes out of solution inside the body in the form of bubbles. These bubbles may commonly cause joint pain and itchy rash skin. It is dangerous if surface too quickly. To avoid it, it is suggested to surface underwater no more than 9 meters every minutes.
What is good about scuba diving?
As a female I can say, scuba diving helps you keep a healthy body and body figure!
Since scuba diving is aerobic exercise and is underwater, the energy consumption is higher than on land because of water current. Your blood circulation is better to improve underwater as you are exposed to pressure gradient, how much your body muscles are working, how better your blood circulation is improved!
Besides, this is the biggest reason for me to learn scuba diving – it relieves stress! You know, people in Hong Kong work under stress, live under stress, even go to school under stress! This is the best way to relieve yourself underwater by seeing the colorful reefs and fishes. This is a quiet place in which you could calm yourself.
What’s more, after learning scuba diving you could dive around the world to discover nature underwater. I have been visited Philippine, Thailand, and Hainan Island after learning scuba diving. And I have got a scuba diving instructor license when I am 18! Trust me, scuba diving is fun!
Let me share some of the photos during the trip in Philippine.
Here is one of the photo I took underwater with my boyfriend in Bohol Island, Philippine!
A vast amount of “Jack fishes" underwater
A photo before going on boat~
The middle one is me!! Can you see my smile face?
If you want to see more photos of other scuba diving lovers or information related to scuba diving, you could like and explore the following Facebook page. There are lots of scuba diving lovers share their experiences of scuba diving!
Every one teenager in Hong Kong loves using YouTube for watching the video provided by YouTubers. There are lots of categories you could watch on YouTube. Let me introduce to you what type of video are the most famous on YouTube.
First, most of the boys or maybe girls love watching gaming review video. One of the most famous YouTuber on YouTube doing gaming review is Lam Wai Wai (達哥) as its early sound rays are like an artist Liu Yida after being output by a microphone. This is the reason he became famous on YouTube.
Another type of video teenagers loves watching is entertainment. AmoGood(谷阿莫) is a famous YouTuber on YouTube who mainly launches video of movie commentary. He has lots of subscribers like his way of fast-talking techniques. The audience can know the plot of a movie in about 5 minutes. Besides, one of the successes of AmoGood is the interspersed he present with personal witty reviews.
YouTube is a platform for people to share things around them. People could stay connected on this platform, know the hot topic or issue via YouTube. Even enjoy the second creation made by a netizen to gain awareness of some social issues. The audience could like, subscribe, and make comments on YouTube that promote people-to-people communication.
I come from Hong Kong. Graduated from traditional secondary school.
My goals after graduation is to open a business which is for doing boat party.
The most interested area for me in strategic communication is PR and advertising. I would like to study the way that whether people would pay attention to a campaign.
I hope I could create a successful campaign for my own business in the future.
My future and long term goals is to learn more about how to run a blog and continue the blog after this semester.
Katie Ho 