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Author Archives: davika.singh
Posts: 5 (archived below)
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Redefining privacy on Facebook
For my final blog, I found this article on TIME.com which captured my eyes and attention. It was very intriguing and interesting to read the many ways listed on this website as to how people relate and understand Facebook. The article titled “How Facebook is redefining Privacy” According to this article, within the next few weeks, Facebook will “officially log its 500millionth active citizen.” This makes you wonder, hmm.. “what number am I”. Just kidding, but on a serious note, it makes one wonder, how Facebook has greatly changed and altered peoples everyday lives and also how it has affected various cultures and countries around the world.
In the article, they talked about how the actual work settings relates to the actual Facebook website. It was said that “hundreds of employees work in big, open-air bullpens-without cubicle walls, there isn’t much privacy, so each desk seems like, a Facebook wall” From this, it’s obvious that these employees are practicing whatever they preached. The article also talks about Mark Zuckerberg’s idea of targeting “your likes”
Finally, they used the question ” What Voldemort Is to Harry Potter” is basically what Facebook and privacy is to society. It was mentioned that, as the years progressed, privacy has been changing and people don’t want complete privacy. In fact, they want control over what they share and what they don’t. In a sense, the comparison to Voldemort, makes me think that without Voldemort, Harry Potter would not be that interesting likewise, without Facebook, the internet would not be the same. Definitely, now we know, the internet has been changed and will not be the same like it was eight years ago.
Facebook: Ruining or helping marriages?
I found this article online and it really captured my attention. After all, it has to do with Facebook and relationships, two of the things that we all like to talk about and are somewhat interested in. This article talks about how relationships, marriages are affected by Facebook. According to this article, relationships suffer because of having exes as friends, flirting and accepting friend requests that should have been ignored. They also mention that relationships and marriages flourish because of Facebook.
According to this article, there are 5 ground rules that married couples should follow in order to have clear communication and connection on Facebook with others without having a misunderstanding. They also listed a bunch of ways one can use Facebook, positively to enhance their marriage or in some of our cases, our relationships. These ways vary from commenting on your spouse’s posts, flirt with them, showing your other half that you trust them and keeping in check with what others are saying about your spouse.
In my case, I have to say that most of the time Facebook tends to have a negative effect on marriages or relationships. I have seen people freak out over old posts from someone that was flirting to chaos and “temporary breakups” over private messages. I’m sure a lot of you reading this are familiar with what I’m talking about. Do you think Facebook helps with marriages or relationships?? Or does it cause jealousy, problems and major break ups?
Take your pick.
http://www.yourtango.com/201173002/facebook-and-your-marriage?cid=nl
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
multitasking- talking/walking/driving while texting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPW8xmI4w6U
I’m sure we all have seen the infamous video of a young woman who thinks it is very easy to walk and text but soon realized that this wasn’t so after she ends up in a water fountain in the middle of the Mall. Examining the video, it was so obvious that she was so focused and devoted to texting, she somewhat forgot that she has to look ahead instead of down on her cell phone to move forward. We all text, everyday, constantly, frequently, some more than others. It is a way of communicating with friends, families, coworkers or whoever the case may be. Short messages or long messages, it is still challenging to focus your complete and utter attention to texting and any other activity that is done at the exact moment.
Speaking from personal experiences, I text a lot, but it is very hard for me to text and walk, text and talk or to text and do any other activities that require a solid amount of attention. Texting while talking to someone rude, while talking or driving while texting can be very dangerous. Whenever I talk to my mom, I definitely have to pay attention and not text, because she asks questions to see if I really was paying attention or just nodding for the sake of nodding. : )
Also, we all know that texting while driving is very dangerous. Texting requires more attention and because of this, we tend to limit the attention of focusing on the road, and place more emphasis on the texting which in many cases, result in accidents, fender benders and even fatalities.
So for those of us who text and drive/walk/talk or any other activities, be careful you may end up tripping, falling into fountains or even seriously hurt.
deleting Facebook accounts
In our last class, we talked about how Facebook affects us, some more than others in many different ways. For many, Facebook is an easy way to keep in contact with old friends, make new friends, take part in new activities and for some, killing time : ). This class in particular captured my attention because we focused on how the life we live and the life on Facebook are two totally and separate things. It’s basically, someone living in two different worlds. From chapter VI, it mentions that we tend to manage the impression we show to others with caution. We try to impress, play different roles, try to expose our lives to others and also in a way, to somewhat sell “ourselves”.
For some, after a while Facebook tends to be a pain and we try to remove it from our lives by deleting the account. In the past, it was a simple thing to do but as of recent, there are many different and complicated steps one must undergo in order as to do so. Lately, it was clear that there is no such thing as deleting the account, but instead, you are temporary putting your account on lock, until you log back in and then it will be reactivated in an instant. Also, for those who spent the time to remove their account, it is also obvious that there are many different websites that by simply typing in your name, one can find each and every account they have created on various websites. With this said and done, we all can say that removing personal information online, is not as easy as it looks or they said it would be.
