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Become Famous Online
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.
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Kid-friendly Language on the Web
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.
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The Internet is on the G-8’s Agenda
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303654804576339403447469250.html
The G8, meaning the top countries with the greatest economies (France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Russia) are putting the issue of the internet on their agenda. On May 24 and 25, French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be meeting executives from various internet, telecommunication and media companies essentially to talk about how the government and the internet can have a more harmonious relationship -one that would benefit both those running the government and those running the online world.
One of the things Sarkozy has been trying to do to help the governemnet benifit from the revenue created online is “punish online intellectual-property thieves.” I think this article is interesting because it really does show, in perspective, just how great the internet and media sites have become. They have in a way superseded governmental power and transcend country lines. The fact that government officials recognize how great of a tool the internet and social media sites are for not only creating revenue but also for some politicians being an essential part of their political campaigns, shows just how important those in control of these sites really are.
It seems as though now countries, especially those that have the top economies of the world have come to realize that having control over the internet and these sites means having more control over the millions of people who use them.
So how does a govenment ensure that they will stay mighty and powerful and have control over their people in this day and age? You set up a meeting with the top exectives from internet, telecommunication and media sites and make sure you get what you need.
New Laws = Privacy Protection
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/05/17/new-bill-would-update-digital-privacy-law/?mod=yahoo_free
The Wall Street Journal article talks about how a new bill would help to bring old digital privacy laws into today’s world where the internet helps to run people’s daily lives. The old 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act that didn’t even require a search warrant for the government to look at old emails from 180 days prior to the search day (mainly because back then people didn’t really store emails for that long) is the law that is currently being amended.
The law that needed a desperate face-lift would help to give the relationship between individual digital privacy and governmental digital information collection a new harmony. When the law was brought into existence in 1986, not a lot of people would have predicted that the internet would become as big as it has. Senator Leahy, who helped to write the law when it was first introduced said “today, this law is significantly outdated and out-paced by rapid changes in technology and the changing mission of our law enforcement agencies after September 11.” With the explosion of new uses for the digital world, more problems with privacy arise.
I think that its great that the government is recognizing that the old laws need to change but I do feel that more protection may be needed. Even thought the article does not really go into detail about what the new law would mean or how it would benefit privacy, I feel like whatever it may say would still not fully protect individuals. For some people this probably does not matter much, if you’re not doing anything wrong then there isn’t really any need to have to hide anything; but for others having the government create laws to protect their privacy means less of a feeling that the all-knowing all-doing government is just that much less able to seize information from a person.
How Do Sites “Follow” You?
http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112769/like-button-follows-users-wsj
In an article provided by The Wall Street Journal, it stated that some social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter as well as Google use widgets to “follow” you, or see what sites you’ve visited online. In the study from the article it said that Facebook would be able to do this through it’s “like” button and that Twitter does through various tweets. What happens is when a person logs on a social media site, and are browsing the internet, even if the person does not press the “like” button to share their information with their friends, the media site are still able to collect that information and find out what you’ve been viewing. Apparently, it is able to collect all this information as long as you are logged on to their sites. Even if you shut down your computer, the site is still collecting data. It does not stop until you log off that particular site.
The article went on about how the sites are taking all this information without people really even knowing that it is being taken. In the article it said “our reading habits online encompass everything we’re thinking about, political and religious views, health and relationship problems…do you want to have an invisible person peering over your shoulder as you walk through the library?” Even with this article informing it’s readers about what’s going on, what I found really interesting about this article were some of the responses the readers had to the article. While some people said that in doing this, sites were ”invading people’s privacy” others talked about how even with knowing all this, it just didn’t bother them. While some people considered this a situation that even George Orwell could not imagine with the “Big Brother” state, others claimed that either they did not feel information being leaked out about them to others was that important or that these kinds of things are just something people have to get use to in this age.
I guess its all just a matter of a person’s personal preference. How much would it bother a particular person that their information and what they are privately doing or looking up ends up in the hands of some company. For some, not so much, the feeling that I’m not that important compared to the other millions or for others it’s a matter of knowing that someone is prying onto your life, without you knowing or without your permission.
