1. Why does Laurel Schwulst advocate for individual websites over social media? Do you agree with her? Please explain your answer.

Laurel Schwulst advocates for individual websites over social media as websites encourage the user to be creative with how they engage and interact with the medium. On the contrary, social media platforms are owned by private corporations that prioritize advertising as their main focus over user engagement and connection. Given their users’ happiness is not their primary focus, it’s considered acceptable for users to feel anxiety when using social media sites.

2. In this article, Schwulst outlines several metaphors defining the behaviour of websites. Write a paragraph describing your own metaphor for a website. Put that text into its own simple website designed to extend that comparison. Upload it to your Github server and post the link here.

A website behaves like the changing of seasons in Canada. From Winter to Summer and back again, as time passes so does the landscape outside. The weather is not always predictable but can be controlled or manipulated by factors beyond our control. During transitional seasons, we are met with complex weather patterns that range from hot to cold. A website is like the seasons in Canada as it’s never static but always dynamically evolving.