Hi.Hello.

My name is Varsha and this is actually not my first time blogging. I was 'required' to blog for a few of my classes in my undergraduate but I think my fellow students paid as much attention to my blog as they did the required readings...aka...not at all. So, blogging for this class will be quite a change.

After reading the first chapter of Salsa Dancing Into the Social Sciences, I was glad to read that we will be looking into research methods that deal with the ever expanding quantity of 'Literature'. The age of info-glut has always intrigued me because I can never decide if too much information is a good thing or a bad thing.

For example, the other day I was helping my brother with his grade 9 introductory English essay of "Who is my hero?". He was able to write this entire essay on Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokemon, simply by consulting a few web pages. My brother has never met Satoshi Tajiri but by reading his paper you might be fooled into thinking so. I remember when I had to write a similar paper in grade 9 and was forced to choose my mother as my hero due to lack of information on J.K.Rowling. That was only 8 years ago.

At this rate, in 8 years one could write their entire Master's thesis paper with only the links provided at the end of a Wikipedia page. Should I cry out in disgust? Or be grateful for the convenience? I can't decide.