The personality test results I received were ISFP-T meaning I am an adventurer. These results in more detail demonstrate that I am an introverted, observant, feeling, prospecting, and turbulent. I found these results to be very accurate, many people have described me to be observant and always changing. The only aspect of my results which I find somewhat inaccurate is that I am 78% feeling, I believe that I more often using logic as my main source of reasoning as opposed to emotion. Overall these results represent my personality well, I am definitely an introvert, but I am spontaneous and enjoy taking risks. I am always very aware and observant and I focus my goals towards what will make me happy. I am curating towards my family which includes my Mother, Father, Brother, and Grandparents. I have a strong relationship with my family and I believe curating my personality test results towards them will help to strengthen the family bond with a better understanding of myself. For my style of curation I plan to include a bright and colorful color scheme because according to my results, adventurers live in a colorful and sensual world. Each of my images will be comedic and memes because my family and I always joke and I never take anything too seriously. For each letter in my personality test I will center them around different color schemes since adventurers are always changing, the images will still be similar in style to the rest of the letters. My style of curation is carefully thought out to accurately represent my personality.
DTC Homework #9
In Maria Popova’s article, “In a new world of informational abundance, content curation is a new kind of authorship”, she brought to light an interesting point about twitter, “The point is that new tools in general, and Twitter in particular, greatly challenge the binary dichotomy of attention as something that is either given or taken away, distracted. Instead, these tools allow us to direct attention to destinations where it can be sustained with more concentration and immersion”. I found this quote particularly interesting because it challenges the negative reputation social media has for distracting people and making them obsessed with their phones. Popova rather explains that social media, specifically twitter in this example, are used to feed people information and further connect them to more information. I recently wrote an argumentative essay that distraction doesn’t exist because it is difficult to determine what is a distraction and what is a valuable use of time, and anything can be categorized as a distraction. This quote by Popova furthers my claim because she argues that social media isn’t a distraction but rather a different facet which one concentrates upon. What makes social media great is the diverse ways in which it can be used as Popova implies, social media links people to new sources and feeds curiosity. There are accounts made for educational, promotional, personal, and commercial purposes which creates many possibility for what can be gained from concentrating on social media. Maria Popova states in this quote that attention is neither given or taken away meaning that any use of time is of value so no-matter how your time is used you gain something from the experience. Popova’s view is truly insightful because it opens up the possibilities and understandings that can be gained from social media.