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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Texting while driving…..
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/hot_lists/high_performance/features_class…
Came across this video and found it very disturbing……who would have thought that texting while driving is more dangers than drinking and driving under the influence although both can cause the same damage.While driving and texting the video shows that the reaction time is much slower than the individual under the influence if alcohol. Its the same as talking to someone while they are texting. To me there is no way you can fully have the attention of the texter because it also obvious that sum of the information relayed to him or her would be lost in translation even though he or she she remember most of the conversation. While texting you fail to realize that time goes on and that u are in way separated yourself from the real world and unconsciously entered into a social network but at the same time,time is constantly moving and its not until you focus your attention back to the real world you realize what you have missed out on alot while you where texting.
Dead after fighting on Facebook over $20
For the majority of us, Facebook is a way to communicate, make new friends, make plans, engage in arguments, threaten others with their lives and even taking someone’s life. I was watching the WPIX news last night and came across this outrageous story about a young college graduate who loaned $20 to her boyfriend’s sister to use for her child but instead, the sister used the money for something else. Yes, a very complicated story that soon ended up on Facebook with the exchange of harsh and threatening words of “who is going to have the last laugh” and later ended in one of the girls being stabbed to death.
The argument escalated and took a turn for the worse, when it was made obvious that the argument wasn’t about the $20. Unfortunately, its too late to know what this argument was really about especially from the other person’s point of view. The story shows one of the many ways people utilize “social networking”. This was a negative way that affect communities and societies of varying ages of people. It is really sad that, as humans our ability to lose control and engage in minor misunderstandings sometimes gets the best of us. In this case, something as simple as repaying $20 would have been the best thing to do and someone’s life would have been spared.
http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-women-dead-after-facebook-fight,0,6781648.story?preview=true
History of Tweets!
http://cac.ophony.org/2010/04/16/archiving-tweets/
I was brought about reading this article for my history class and thought it was very interesting because historians are thinking of archiving every single tweet that is put out for the public to see. Now some may say this sounds ridiculous because there are a number of things people say that are useless. However, if this goes through there will be a large library with tweets stating everyones thoughts,actions and feelings. Though I am not a member of the twitter community, I think that archiving these tweets may in fact some way serve its purpose, whether it be that people in the future can tap into our thoughts that will be history or that perhaps someone tweeting now is saying something that will make them famous when they are older or well after they have passed. With this developing idea there also comes a question of privacy. What happens to those who do not want their thoughts saved for people to see in the future? Does this in fact go against privacy policy? In my opinion I believe that once something on a public service site is opened by an individual it is no longer as private as one may think. You may be able to make it private but for that mili second, who knows your tweet could be saved. It is difficult to establish how people will react to this situation. It is not yet determined whether people have a choice or not whether they can have their tweets saved but we will just have to see when the uproar begins.
Facebook Marriage Drama
We’ve all seen facebook drama unfold on someones wall and even the extreme a chilling article about a young teen who committed suicide after being abused on the internet.
What about when it comes to marriage? Most of us don’t view facebook as being the source of drama for married people, we view it as a way for them to share baby pictures with college friends and reunite with people from the past
According to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers over 66% of divorces have been linked to Facebook. They say that while many of these affairs are not premeditated, they are still happening and the information is put on the Internet for everyone to see.
Maybe it’s time for for people to better learn their privacy settings.
