Les dejo el perfil que escribió mi compañera Irasema Romero para nuestra clase en Columbia.
Nunca alguien que me conocía tan poco plasmo mi escencia en papel tan bien como ella. La nota es larga así que hagan click en “Leer más” para verla entera. Enjoy!
An apartment without an Internet connection is problematic for any New Yorker. But for 27-year-old Constanza Preti, an online celebrity from Argentina who arrived in New York City for graduate school, the connection blackout affected her very own identity.
As the writer of Butanoblog.com, Preti, or Conz as her more than 6,000 Twitter followers know her, is used to constantly writing on her blog, Facebook, and Twitter giving up-to-the hour details on her latest online pursuits in the United States.
During the dead zone month in her new Upper West Side apartment, Preti used her iPhone to make updates and keep connected. When the Time Warner Cable repairman visited to plug her in after 30 days, she welcomed more possibilities to access the world.
“I am once again connected to the world and can even chat from the shower,” she wrote in Spanish on her blog. “My happiness for having television and Internet is indescribable.”
Preti’s online celebrity status can be traced to her childhood efforts to be part of the “cool kids” – a quest that, as an adult, led her to work for the social media giant MySpace, host the first video blog in Argentina, and pursue online journalism.
Although her new friends at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism treat her as an authority in online sharing, Preti was not always part of the in-crowd.
Because of her father’s work as a Pfizer executive, the family moved around Latin America and did not live in one country for more than eight years. She spent her childhood in Colombia, her teenage years in Brazil, and her college years at Universidad de San Andrés in her native Argentina.
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