Monthly Archives: May 2011

Looking back over some of the earlier posts and i was drawn to the post about Disney. In that blog and article it was explained the offense that Disney committed was a mass accumulation of Child information, without parental consent.

I only just found out about this news and I find it very offensive that this type of activity is being committed and by Disney no less!

The playstation three database was possible to be hacked into and information about many of the playstation three online users was stolen. Some financial information may have been stolen and that could lead to identity theft and forgery. Now imagine if a similar scenario happened with the information Disney was gathering and now you have a major concern over these kids.

Just as we are reminded in class, everything is stored and available four your viewing pleasures…on the Internet.

I dont know what has been up lately, but a friend of mine that has kind of fallen off in keeping touch has recently been sending pokes my way on Facebook. What on earth could such a simple action on mean? Poking someone in the literal sense would seem to me as, a tap or maybe even as naughty as a pinch. (depends where)

But what social undermining could be involved in each poke that you receive or send out?

Is a poke to a new date that you have recently been seeing for the last month the same as say…poking your best friend. It most definitely would not be. If I sent a poke to one of my friends male/female it would most likely be a way of greeting, or acknowledgment, kind of like saying whats up!

However imagine poking someone you are a little more intimate with…I am not even going to go further, because there are countless hidden messages which could be contained in one single Facebook POKE!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/22/arts/television/second-city-miyuki-my-future-girlfriend.html?ref=technology

I thought this article was interesting because it talked about how different sites have gained so much popularity that they are now able to get millions of views just while being online. Some sites that allow users to upload their own videos and display their skits to those watching have also i he process gained much popularity. Its interesting to see how there feels to be a slight shift on how people are trying to get famouse and how fameis now being recognized.

I think an interesting example of this is Perez Hilton. I think that before he was well known he had a blog where he talked about celebrities. After his site gained much popularity it kind of just blew up and so did Perez Hilton. I think that people who want to become celebrities have found a new outlet to reach people and spread their name. Now, small bands have to create twitter accounts, Facebook pages just about their ban, and have their own Youtube pages.  With mass information able to spread to people faster and to a larger group, it is easier to have you and your ideas out there and just a bit easier or more likely to actually become one of the few who actually become famous through their social media sites.

Society has changed so much that its easier to be noticed and famous, like that girl that song that “Sunday” song. Even bad publicity is publicity and at the end people just want to be noticed and now social media sites are making it easier than before to actually be known by many, fast.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/17/facebook-youtube-parents-watch-web-language/

The article talks about how sites such as Youtube, Facebook and other sites have language on them that may not be kid-friendly. One of the examples the article gives is when a mother talks about how her 8-year-old was on Youtube looking up a Justin Bieber video and some of the comments on the bottom of the video displayed curse words. I dont think that is something any parent would want their child to see or think about, especially at a very young age.

However, there is not much people can do to prevent things like this from happening on a normal day-to-day basis. One of the negative things about these kinds of sites and the internet in general, especially noe, is that alot of what is on the internet is user-generated. This usually means that not much about what is up can really be wathed that closely to prevent kids from looking at it. The most we have now is software or settings that block certain websites or beg able to flag a comment, or report stuff on these kinds of sites. Unfortunately even this is not enough for some parents to make sure that their children are not watching or reading inappropriate stuff.

Its sad to say that there is not much we can do to permanently stop things like these from happening. With the way the internet is and how it is set up, inappropriate stuff is just one of the things parents have to deal with. Probably one of the best things to do for a parent who doesn’t want their child from getting to inappropriate stuff is to monitor their children while they are on the computer and make sure you have settings set up. With all that information and people online at any given moment, its really hard to make sure that what your children are able to see is parent-approved.