I believe that people who use any type of new media don’t have that much privacy. Everything that anyone sign up for a social network, or a new email, and posted something online can easily and “unintentionally” lose some amounts of privacy. One of the reasons is that when we sign up for anything online we are required to put some of our own personal information. Now we have powerful search engines, such as Google, that can find anything in the website even the personal information that putted it when you sign up for a social network. For example, an email address of the senders could be retrieved by anybody using the direct quote as a query.
Also, when it comes to privacy depends on the users of new media because most of the people that now have social networks like Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter been posted too much information on it. When I go in to Facebook I see people write in their wall where they eat or where they are going to hang out in the weekend. I believe when it come to sign up for anything online people need to be careful because now anyone can search for any information about yourself. For example, there are websites like intelius.com and searchpeople.com that help people to find anyone just by typing their names.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Advice to Baruch College
A way to improve new media at school is by develop an exclusive social network for Baruch students only. It would be very beneficial to the school because the student would be able to know more about their classmate and the people that they see in the hallway. As we might know most of the students in Baruch are hard for them to make friends at school or they just talk with their classmate only about their assignments. I believe this idea would improve new media at school and social life because student would be more interesting to get to know more about their classmate and faculties. It could also motivate students more to participant of school activates and clubs. Also, everybody can be more informed about what is going on at school.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Virtual World
Virtual life is like a second life that we imagined and created virtually. Now day people, especially boys, use the virtual world to play games. It could drive them to a real war where they could imagine that they are soldiers. The virtual world can be used to shows others a new project and how it will be, such as a new buildings, or urbanizations. Virtual world basically shows the others a new world, it drive anyone to a future.
The article “Social Influence and the Diffusion of User-Created Content” by Bakshy, Karrer, and Adamic states that “ In Second Life, you can search for interesting places to visit on your own, or a friend or business can give you a landmark – a bookmark that allows you to teleport directly to a location. If upon arriving, you would like your avatar to dance, wave, or make a certain sound, you need to retrieve that gesture from your inventory of assets.” The virtual world is like a second life where you can do whatever you want and imagine that you are living it. Also, you can see different places that maybe in real life we don’t have it. Anyone can construct your own land or construct your perfect life.
In the future everyone would be part of a virtual life. It also would be use for many corporations to show they new project to clients or the public, such as a new construction of buildings, malls or urbanizations. The second life would be use with frequently.
The article “Social Influence and the Diffusion of User-Created Content” by Bakshy, Karrer, and Adamic states that “ In Second Life, you can search for interesting places to visit on your own, or a friend or business can give you a landmark – a bookmark that allows you to teleport directly to a location. If upon arriving, you would like your avatar to dance, wave, or make a certain sound, you need to retrieve that gesture from your inventory of assets.” The virtual world is like a second life where you can do whatever you want and imagine that you are living it. Also, you can see different places that maybe in real life we don’t have it. Anyone can construct your own land or construct your perfect life.
In the future everyone would be part of a virtual life. It also would be use for many corporations to show they new project to clients or the public, such as a new construction of buildings, malls or urbanizations. The second life would be use with frequently.
Twitter Discussion
Having a discussion in twitter is like send text message. There is a limited of 140 word maximum which it does not allow you to express whatever you want to say. But it is a good experiences and it made me feel like I was texting a friend through my computer.
Unlike Blackboard or class discussion, twitter is a public site that anyone can see your posts. In blackboard we have more privacy because you can share your opinion or posts with your classmates and teachers only. Of course in blackboard you have more space to express yourself in word.
In Twitter anyone can make a discussion or a doubt about anything but it will be in short word or like you are texting somebody. While a blackboard you can a discussion with more space to write and with more privacy.
Unlike Blackboard or class discussion, twitter is a public site that anyone can see your posts. In blackboard we have more privacy because you can share your opinion or posts with your classmates and teachers only. Of course in blackboard you have more space to express yourself in word.
In Twitter anyone can make a discussion or a doubt about anything but it will be in short word or like you are texting somebody. While a blackboard you can a discussion with more space to write and with more privacy.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Social Networking
Social networking is a virtual community that with time has grown a tremendously popularity and impact worldwide. As it is describes in the YouTube video “Social Media in Plain English”, a social networking is like a little community where everybody share their personal information, pictures and comments in which friends post comment about it and rates it. Social networking sites are one of the most incredible things that is in the cyber world because thanks to its people can find old friends and families and still in touch with them. Also it bought the opportunity to many users to find their love of their life.
According to the article “Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship” by Danah Boyd and Nicole Ellison, that “Sites also vary in the extent to which they incorporate new information and communication tools, such as mobile connectivity, blogging, and photo/video sharing”. Definitely social network sites brought the world new technology or new ways to communicate, such as now people can be update their social network profile anytime through their own phone. Also, people from anywhere of the world can share photos and videos as well as their own interests.
Social networking is a good thing in a way because it brought us new things and the power to be update with our friends and families. But the bad things about social network sites are that you might would not have a privacy life anyone could be able to find your personal information. As I saw in the YouTube video “Facebook in the real world” in which states that the dark side of the social networking sites are that maybe with the time user could not have privacy life because friends and members access to personal information and pictures.
According to the article “Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship” by Danah Boyd and Nicole Ellison, that “Sites also vary in the extent to which they incorporate new information and communication tools, such as mobile connectivity, blogging, and photo/video sharing”. Definitely social network sites brought the world new technology or new ways to communicate, such as now people can be update their social network profile anytime through their own phone. Also, people from anywhere of the world can share photos and videos as well as their own interests.
Social networking is a good thing in a way because it brought us new things and the power to be update with our friends and families. But the bad things about social network sites are that you might would not have a privacy life anyone could be able to find your personal information. As I saw in the YouTube video “Facebook in the real world” in which states that the dark side of the social networking sites are that maybe with the time user could not have privacy life because friends and members access to personal information and pictures.
Check Out Social Networking
All social networking sites have the same object in which is to meet and get to know new people. In my opinion all social networking are the same because they have the same goals or objective but the only thing is that they have different concepts and structures. I have accounts in MySpace, Hi5, Facebook, Blog and Twitter.
My space is social network site that at the beginning was kind of fun for its users because everybody was uploading new pictures, funny videos and all types of layout. But then with the time it only became use for publicity for parties and club. Facebook is a social network is used mostly for college student. I think this site is a nice social network to go to because you can post your thoughts or whatever you one and comment your friends update. Hi5 is a sites in which is popular in the Caribbean and Latin American. I personally don’t like too much this website but I used it to keep in contact with my friends and families that are in my country.
Blog is like a journal website because you can write whatever you one from a poem to a simple article. Blog is mostly used by journalist because they can write in freestyle and see the comment of what they friends think about it. If you like to write and read new things, and meet new people with the same interesting definitely Blog is your website.
My space is social network site that at the beginning was kind of fun for its users because everybody was uploading new pictures, funny videos and all types of layout. But then with the time it only became use for publicity for parties and club. Facebook is a social network is used mostly for college student. I think this site is a nice social network to go to because you can post your thoughts or whatever you one and comment your friends update. Hi5 is a sites in which is popular in the Caribbean and Latin American. I personally don’t like too much this website but I used it to keep in contact with my friends and families that are in my country.
Blog is like a journal website because you can write whatever you one from a poem to a simple article. Blog is mostly used by journalist because they can write in freestyle and see the comment of what they friends think about it. If you like to write and read new things, and meet new people with the same interesting definitely Blog is your website.
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