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Angelika Chrobak
Dr.Kyburz
College Writing II
27 September 2015

Posting Emotions Online

I am very proud to say, i do not have a Facebook or a twitter account. I know that truly may seem crazy because a vast majority of people do, but i don't. I was never interested in making those accounts basically for the reasons I will be talking about soon. I have to admit i was at one time curious to see how they worked so while my friends would be logged in to their accounts, i was hoover over them and see what people were posting and saying. Not to my surprise, the vast majority of posts were about "having a boring day" or complaining about the cold Chicago weather. But what truly didn't surprise me, was the number of Starbucks coffee postings i saw. About 75% of people on twitter were going on and on about the "pumpkin spice latte" and how its the right season again and that they love sweater weather. Seeing all of those posts, i was vert glad at my decision not to create an account. I do not feel the need to see what someone is drinking or how happy they are that they can wear a sweater and a scarf again but are about to complain once it starts truly snowing. To me, it is mind-blowing to think that this is what our world has come to. No one stops and writes"don't post that" on all of those posts. Honestly, those posts get a lot of retweets and likes and what not. So its sad to see that it has basically become a social norm to see and write all of those non sense posts. Someone is over here writing about their 4th latte of the day which in total was about $15 just on lattes for a day, when there is so much kids that live off of a dollar a day. In a way, its sickening to think about. Our culture has adapted to make this seem normal and to make those posts recognized.  

As I've began writing my summary on "Love Me", i have come to the realization that all the little details i add in that i feel don't really make a huge difference, add up and add on to the story. For example, if i never said where the documentary takes place, everyone would be confused because they need to know in order to understand what is going on. Ive also realized, that coming up with something to grab someones attention will definitely help me out because i want to make sure the person looks at it and even with the first sentence, they are able to say "oh yes, this sounds interesting" and i want to make sure they don't feel as if it starts off boring or uninteresting or irrelevant to them. I also have a very hard time just simply not including my personal opinion in. I would love to say "i feel what they're  doing is wrong" or that i don't believe in a way that someone does something, but i need to just keep telling myself to summarize. but sometimes i feel like i just need to add my own personal opinion, then i remind myself. Something that I've discovered after watching the documentary, is just realizing how interesting they really are. I spent my whole saturday on random documentaries because they are just so interesting. and it is so crazy how you can literally go from one topic and love it, and then on to another documentary thats about something completely different and still end up loving that one too. it may just be me but documentaries really catch my attention.

Documentary-Love Me

Documentary- Love Me


I know this usually will sound pretty bizarre to the average person, but how would you feel going across the world to find love? It happens so often and we don't even realize it. There are many people that just feel they cannot find happiness in the town or place they are in, so they send off to Europe to find a soul mate. Many cases end up on a positive note, while some end in a terrible manner. In the documentary, a few men go off on a trip to Ukraine and Russia to find what we would call "a mail order bride". they send off in hopes to find love and a partner for the rest of their lives. of course not all of them end up coming home with a lady to call their own. and some come home with absolutely no idea that the woman they spent tens of thousands of dollars on, was just collecting a cut of the pay. the emails they send out to speak to each woman cost upwards of $10 inbound and outbound, and the cost goes to the male. The cost of the email is to have it translated into english for the man and to russian or ukranian for the woman. The men then go out onto 3 excursions while in the foreign country. they go to bars and nightclubs where the website hosts the little get togethers in hopes to finally meet the woman they spent thousands of dollars on just simply emailing. It is sort of a bitter sweet documentary because it is great to see the men come home and have the lady join them and start a life here in the U.S. but there are also fraudulent cases in which the man spends a ton of money and gets married and pays for everything, only to find out the lady does this just for free vacations and to collect money. It is very unfortunate in those cases but of course there are people out there that will do that. 

In my opinion, my interest in documentaries varies greatly. In many cases, i have started a documentary and in the first few minutes, was able to tell if i was going to continue to watch or just turn it off. But in a lot of the cases where i wanted to turn them off, i ended off really enjoying it. I was always too quick to judge because in many cases they start out on a very low note, in my opinion. I have seen many and i can say that most of them that i watched outside of class, really caught my attention. i was never very intrigued by the ones we watched in school. There is one that i watched many times and it really caught my attention and i would recommend it to everyone. It is called "The Fat Boy Chronicles" and it can be found on Netflix. It had such an inspirational message. It is basically about a young boy and the struggles he faces of being overweight. It tells many stories in the documentary and also shows the impact of bulling towards people. I wouldn't say it is a typical documentary. The way its produced is in a more informal manner but it really gets the message across. It even made me shed a tear! Documentaries provide a great variety of ways information can be portrayed to the viewer. Although one may think many documentaries are alike, a vast majority are extremely different. One may think they are boring because it is not like a typical tv show in the sense that it is usually not a funny matter and typically has a person narrating it. Many people can be helped in their writing by watching a few documentaries because of the subject matter. The vocabulary used in documentaries usually isn't a typical dialogue that many teenagers use on a day to day basis. I love the way documentaries capture the reality of the topic and bring it to you from a scientific standpoint. They tend to go into deep details of the topic and bring a different view on it. most of the topics are not about the basic shows one would watch on tv. I personally think the best part of it all is that it is all REAL people, REAL actors and REAL events. It's not made up like 90% of the stuff shown on regular tv shows. I think thats what draws the most people. Documentaries have an emotional pull towards them.