FOCUS: UBER

After work on Thursday night I ordered an Uber on my iPhone to get home as there was no public transport on route for a while. Uber is a cheap, convenient form of transport which requires no cash in hand and just a charged mobile phone which thankfully mine was. I often use the Uber application on late nights to get home by typing in my location before clicking “Request Uber”. The application has my home address and bank details automatically saved so there is little effort to go through as oppose to catching a taxi. I feel safe catching an Uber because the details of the driver and tracking of the route is provided for the passenger.

FOCUS: RENT A DRESS

Another way I was interactive online today was by using the internet to hire my clothes out to others interested. I have recently paid $10 to become a member on the Australian website, Rent a Dress, to help hire a few items of clothing out for some extra money. I took a few images of the clothes I wanted to hire with my iPhone and airdropped them onto my computer to upload to this website. This site allows for others to browse through pictures of clothing and contact the owner via text or Facebook for hire enquiries. By publishing these images on rent a dress I had to act as an author to describe the details of each product in hope that someone would want to hire it out.

FOCUS: SNAPCHAT

I am constantly using the application ‘Snapchat’ to send images of myself to others and watch snapchat stories of friends and celebrities. This afternoon I sent a snapchat of my iPod to one of my close friends with the caption “Can you please bring my speakers tonight?” via the application on my phone. The purpose of this snapchat was to casually ask my friend a question by including of a photo. It is common for my friend and I to communicate via snapchat as it sparks more creativity as oppose to just sending a text message. By creating this snapchat I was authoring a direct message to my friend.