#tutorial 6

donut with table

On the other hand, talking about proportion of the head, I think they are many interesting facts. For example, the gap between both eyes tend to be about the same size of the eye itself, the corners of the mouth tend to be in the line with the middle of the eye, etc. With these measurements, I can draw a face (or a head) more easily while having the right proportion. 

Facebook and Twitter combined have over 1.6 billion active users. That's a staggering number when you consider both have been in existence for less than ten years. They are available in over 70 languages, and are accessed in almost every country on the planet. Social networking is allowing the world to be more connected than ever before, but not only is it connecting nations it is starting to create an international-cyber nation. People who use social media can connect and communicate with others all over the world, people whom they may never have met or never will meet face-to-face. It allows a form of friendship that would likely never exist without it. Instant messaging, photo sharing, webcam, tweets and pokes (though does anyone even know the point of pokes?) are all used for real-time communication with people locally and internationally, and these functions are helping to break down long-standing communications boundaries. Once upon a time, before the telegram, international communication was slow, difficult, expensive and lacking in detail. With the advent of the telegram and the telephone came more instantaneous communication, and then the Internet became the modern pinnacle of this global reach technology. People could send a message, then their voice, then a video, then all three on the one platform. And that's where social media is excelling in this regard. It's a platform of communication with multiple options and ways of functioning. Those of Generation Y who spend a large portion of their time online, and forming their online profile, have created a social media population. People who use Facebook and Twitter are rarely defined by where they physically live, rather that the are simply part of the respective user bases. Someone who lives in Australia can regularly contact someone in Sweden; someone in Germany to someone in Brazil etc but these geographical differences don't matter when they are both using the same communication platform. They may as well be in the same place as far as basic communication is concerned. The social, geographical, and cultural differences between these people are no longer so relevant when they placed together in one (albeit enormous) group. And with that, never before in history has a group the size of Facebook have been so able to communicate with each other so readily. The thought that over a billion people technically have the ability to communicate with each other at any time is staggering. We can communicate with people all over the globe at the touch of a button today. While online communication still may not be held in as high social regard as the face-to-face, with the rate at which people are becoming users of social media, who knows when instant messaging may become just as important or acceptable as the way we connect?

-Colin Bunyan, Dec 15th 2011, LMU Headingley-