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Category Archives: Assignment 1
South Park’s take on Facebook
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This is just a short clip of an entire episode of South Park dedicated to give their take on Facebook. This episode aired on April 7, 2010. You can read the plot summary or watch the full episode.
It addresses the issue of being “forced” to make a profile, the annoyance of parents/grandparents joining Facebook, the addiction of the applications features on Facebook such as Farmville and Cafeworld. They have the angry jealous girlfriend who makes it clear that they need to be “in a relationship” on Facebook to be official. They also show the desire to have more friends than others and the stigma of having zero friends. And finally they depict how troublesome it is to deactivate one’s profile, by having Stan, the character forced to make Facebook profile, sucked into the cyber world of Facebook.
While listening to the class discussion on Facebook earlier in the semester, I thought of this episode. The questions that were asked were answered in this episode in a comical way. However, there are some people out there who do take social networks, cyber relationships, cyber equities seriously. I feel that in this episode, the characters of South Park are showing the viewers how ridiculous we’ve become as our lives are revolving around social networks. (They’ve based one of their earlier episodes on the Internet and how society would fall into chaos if the Internet shuts down. link)
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Password Please
During many of our class discussions we talk about employer’s using items that we post on facebook or other social media sites to fire their employee’s or using the internet to find out things about prospective employee’s.
What about saving the time of entering a person’s name into a google search or any website that compile personal information such as http://pipl.com/, imagine your prospective employer asking you for your password and login information. This may sound unfathomable to many of us but according to the two article’s below this is exactly what happened to Robert Collins an employee of the Maryland Division of Corrections.
Mr. Collins was asked to give his login information for his facebook account while going through a re-certification processes. He had to sit as the interviewer logged in and read posts made by Mr.Collins as well as people he was friends with.
The case has now been taken up by the ACLU which states that this is a breach of the Federal Stored Communications Act and Maryland State law.
http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty/want-job-password-please
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/11/02/should-employers-be-allowed-to-ask-for-your-facebook-login/71480#disqus_thread
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.
