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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 Race to Facial Recognition
The Atlantic reported on the Google’s “‘Big Tent’ Conference on internet privacy”where Eric Schmidt made a speech about new innovations in Facial Recognition. The Atlantic reports “the ‘surprising accuracy’ of new facial recognition technology “very concerning,” Schmidt said it was ‘unlikely’ that Google would develop a database with the ability to recognize people’s faces. ‘Some company is going to cross that line,’ he added”. Then the Atlantic went on to report that even though the chairman of Google is denouncing the use of facial recognition, Google has filed for two patent in the past year having to do with it’s “facial recognition search system”
Rumor is Facebook is also working on a similar program no patents are yet filed, but there are serious movement into the technology of facial recognition. There might be a reconsideration on the behalf of Google’s part but as Schmidt said some company is going “to cross the line” whether it be Facebook or any other tech corp it has the potential to create a lot of invasion on the people’s privacy.
No longer will you have to be tagged on Facebook by your friends to see what photos you’ve been in, Facebook will be able to do that for you and your friends. Your future employer able to find all those pictures you tried to hide, facial recognition leads to this and it’s being developed.
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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.
Like and DISLIKE!! Buttons coming to Every Facebook Profile
No, it’s not coming, not anytime soon, not even just a Dislike Button, but people want it, if you type in the Dislike Button in the Facebook Search Bar and you get an endless amount of groups requesting it with a numerous amount of Likes, but why no Dislike Button. It’s the only TRUE way to find out if we really need one.
There are alternatives, like the Meh Button app that The Atlantic report on, and can be downloaded but it is not readily available on the Facebook website. So why no dislike an article on thenextweb.com sums it up perfectly:
“here’s why Zucker and [Company] will never approve a dislike button: people simply can’t be trusted to use a dislike button sensibly.
Social media is all about building networks, being accepted, being ‘liked’, sharing information…positive things. A dislike button goes against all of that and would only promote bad karma and negativity. Anti-social media, in other words.
But over and above Facebook’s desire to keep connecting people in a positive fashion, there’s the issue of revenue. Money, as we all know, talks. All those company pages and sponsored ads bring a lot of cash to Facebook, and giving 500 million people free reign to openly dislike something which has cost a company x amount to promote doesn’t make good business sense for Facebook.”
TheNextWeb.com article mentions people not being trusted to keeping the facade of perfect networking up on Facebook. Your opinion is not needed.
Meh Button App available at: http://www.pubnub.com/blog/facebook-meh-button
The Atlantic Article available at: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2010/08/facebook-should-add-a-meh-button/19179/
The Complete The Next Web Article at : http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/10/10/facebook-dislike-button-why-it-will-never-happen/
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LNKD up 100%, 1999 2.0
Written Yesterday (May 19, 2011)
This morning I spent reading day missing out on one of the best investments in my short stock trading life. The only stock to watch today was LNKD, better known as LinkedIn the social professional networking, it went to market today for the first time and just blow up. It’s IPO was at $45 and by 11:45 it was also at $123, it hit it’s peak at that point, it made traders all over the world very happy. Not only did this company make a lot of money today but it sets the stage for the more powerful social media website IPOs like Groupon, Twitter and the most powerful of all social media websites, Facebook.
During todays crazy amount of trading, I kept visiting StockTwits.com for what traders were saying on the $LNKD page, when one comment posted said “to the young traders this is what 1999 felt like”. The comment was a reference to 1999’s Dot Com Bubble, where the internet was creating the biggest money makers Wall Street has ever seen and LNKD is only the beginning of the IPO madness for this year, but this time it’s not about Pets.com, it involves social media websites that makes real money. In 1999 company’s were rushing to the IPO in order make some cash, but today its a more refined version of 1999, 1999 2.0. These companys are not setting up to be a quick flip but are on there way to be very established tech companies like Google, Amazon and Ebay. Here come the almighty Dot Com IPOs lets just hope they don’t disappoint.
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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.
More parents lenient about young web use
I think parents are becoming more lenient as time goes by and as technology advances. I got my first cell phone when I was 12 or 13 years old. My cousin who is 9 years younger got his first one when he was about 7 years old. I got my first ipod and laptop when I was 18. This kid got his first ipod when he was 9 and his first laptop when he was 10. Surprisingly he doesn’t have a Facebook yet. I wouldn’t be shocked if he made one in the next few months. But this is how the world is now. Younger kids are growing up with all this technology around them, it’s bound for them to want to join the biggest social network.
I think it’s fine that kids have Facebook. It’s a good way for them to be connected with their friends. Its also beneficial for the parents to see who their child is talking to, how often, maybe pick up on some of the things that they talk about. I know that when I was younger, and my parents asked who I was talking to via text, instant message, etc, I would always got annoyed. I even had one friend’s name ready to answer, whenever they asked. So this can be a way to find out who the friends are; especially for the parents whose kids keep everything to themselves. And honestly I know many younger kids who I babysat for or tutored, who are on Facebook and lie about their age and high school graduation date. And my parents didn’t know I was on Facebook until maybe 3 years after when it started to get really big.
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Bullied in School
My neighbors daughter needed help to write a poem. The theme of the poem dealt with bullying in school. She is only 9, so I asked her what she thought of bullying and how she felt about it. I was surprised by her response because I didn’t think she felt so strongly about it. She isn’t a victim of this crime and/or act but it’s nice to see that even a child know that it is wrong to treat another person badly for no reason. In the news I’m constantly hearing of teens who are bullied in school and suffer great amounts of emotional pain. YouTube has had many videos go viral because of teens expressing their hatred of having to go to school to face the daily torture. I’ve also come across a few videos of victims attacking their bullies to make them feel the same pain. It’s sad to see young people having to go through depression instead of enjoying life with no worries.
There have been many artists who have debut songs that speak out against bullying from anyone you encounter whether at school, work, or by family members. Pink has a video that shows one girls self-worth diminished from a very young age having to go through struggles and trying to fit in. Fortunately, her story turned into a positive one and she was able to turn her life around. Sadly, the same cannot be said for many teens that are currently being tortured by fellow peers for pure satisfaction.
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What do we spend our time on?
Internet Time spent :
One late night, my friend and I were talking about how the other seems to be on Facebook almost every minute of their waking day. How did we come to this conclusion? We were “poking” each other on Facebook. I sent him a “poke” and within seconds, I get the “poke” right back. And sometimes I would be the one who responded within seconds. The week later, he sends me this article, claiming it’s meant for me.
And I guess it may be true. But how do these people conduct these surveys? Do they factor in that some people leave tabs open of different sites? Currently I have my email, Facebook, CNN and some articles for a research paper open on tabs. I also have my instant messenger opened on the side of my desktop. And now that Facebook and other social mediums display some kind of notification on the tabs, to let us know that we have a message or a new comment, etc. And since social networks are a more instant and wider form of communication, it’s no wonder we spend most of our time on the Internet on it.
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