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what some people do not understand is the emotional effect cyber bullying has on people, especially kids.  this article is about a woman named Tine Meier goes around sharing her story to parents who are not aware of the dramatic effects of cyber bullying.  nowadays people do a form of bullying called “trolling” where all they do is go to different sites and pages to bully people for no reason at all. this womans story is dramatic and people need to listen and do their part to help stop it.  we’ve heard many tragic stories about cyber bullying pushing people to commit suicide over the past couple of months.  although people can avoid cyber bullying by staying off the internet, bullys still pursue them and the internet has to much of a lure for people not to stay away.  awareness to kids and parents is the most effective way to help stop the problem.  when people are aware theyre more inclined to pay more attention to their kid’s activities on the internet.

usually college professors use email to get in contact with students.  apparently there’s a new movement to utilize twitter in the classroom. for assignment updates and classroom cancellations and other similar matters.  whats interesting about this article is that its very similar to what were doing here in class.  it discusses using twitter as a personal brand maker which we do here in class but with tumblr.  twitter in the classroom also helps people become more involved into the growing industry of social media.  also, since twitter has a limit for every message it teaches people to be concise with the message theyre trying to protray.  this is a very positive way to utilize social media like were doing with tumblr.

this article discusses the fine that disney was just placed with for gathering information on children through their websites without parental consent.  i mean its one thing to gather information from adults, but from kids? why would a website want all of a child’s information? its uncomforting since disney is suppose to be family friendly and very reliable and trustworthy.  for it to violate online laws is very peculiar and i think its fair they got fined for it. 3 million dollars is alot, but it sets a precedent for any other childrens website to want to ask for a kids information.  it can also be argued that parents need to regulate what children do online more often.  parental controls help regulate websites but then parents should be around to see what kids do on regulated websites.  for any website, even a disney based one.

a 23 year old made a huge profit on the death of Osama Bin Laden.  as soon as he heard of his death, Maurice Harary went online and created dozens of shirts promoting his death.  at 12 dollars a shirt he sold 10,000 items by Tuesday creating a frenzy of orders.  it was a great way to take advantage of American pride at it’s highest for profit.  we all know that companies sometimes do unethical practices to turn profit, but do you think Maurice’s shirts are possibly unethical?

According to this article, social media is not the only way to go when marketing a website. Although it is a powerful tool, more “classic” forms of Internet marketing prove to be more effective, such as emailing. With all the noise that’s on the web it gets harder and harder to stand out, but when a person is emailed they are forced to at least read the sender and the title of the email, compared to a social media banner that kinda just fell to the side l! The great thing about marketing is that is constantly changing or be tweak and what not