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Facebook Stalking=Socially Acceptable
http://www.teenvogue.com/connect/blogs/soundoff/2011/02/facebook-stalking.html
Stalking is normally shunned in our society. The law prohibits these actions by allowing ‘victims’ to file restraining orders,etc. So why is it that something that is socially unacceptable and illegal is the complete opposite..a norm..online!!!
What is the difference between trying to find out more a lot how a person looks..who they hang out with (Do you have mutual friends?)..where they work..God forbid you continue to find them intriguing..Guess what? You are stalking them!!!
If you were to behave this way in reality, outside of the internet..some might call you a CREEP or peeping tom, and it wouldn’t be followed by a “lol…:)”
According to urbandictionary.com, a facebook stalker (yes they actually coined that term) is :”An individual who secretly looks up people on facebook, going through albums, comments and personal information to piece together a picture of this person. Potentially developing into an obsession.”
However, in the article I was reading in Teen Vogue, entitled, Cyberspy: Are you a Facebook Stalker? “Experts say you shouldn’t feel strange about regularly checking out someone’s page- as long as your intentions are healthy.” But what is healthy? It is also said too much of anything is a bad…being excessive can never lead to anything positive. I believe if you wouldn’t do it in real life, don’t do it through the internet.
R.I.P Social Media?..Yea Right!
http://technorati.com/blogging/article/has-social-media-had-its-hey/
Social Media has not had its hey day!!! Not only can you speak to relatives and friends far away, but you are able to Skype them into your living room. So Social media hey day is heating up ;)!! The potential of and the demand for these social networking sites remains infinite.
Social media has its positive and negative attributes like anything else. Its major drawbacks stems from easy access to the world wide web and people’s personal information. The fact that you can chat, make friends, play games with others from around the globe is not only amazing, but magical. The drawback here is bad,mean people are also online. Sometimes, there is no telling who is who. You go on, and just hope for the best!
However,when social media is correctly used, it affords us a broad and varied spectrum of services such as online teaching and learning, shopping,and movies/theater. Nowadays, you really don’t have to leave your home to accomplish many of your daily tasks. With the flick of a button, you have arrived at your destination through a link or intended site.
I think this article sums up how beneficial social media can be when the author states,…”you need to have a strategy in place that takes into account your strengths. Additionally it needs to have specific targets and goals, all driven by a tactical, yet strategical, plan. You need to have a way of measuring your social media marketing results and a means of fine-tuning them”. Because networking is key to a successful path in this day and age and social media is the medium that bridges that flow of data.
Self Esteem v. NewsFeed
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/business/10ping.html?scp=7&sq=social%20media&st=cse
Your Facebook wall can truly make you feel like a wall flower especially when you are sitting at home, minding your business, just trying to keep up with your everyday chores and assignments then all of a sudden…an URGE or desire hits you..the need to see what exciting venture your friends, ‘frienimies’ (friend+enemies) and family are completing without you.
The need becomes all consuming, and before you see it for what it really is, you have tuned into the web. There are your friends!… all having a great time…they say a picture is worth a 1,000 words, and these are speaking for themselves. FUN!!!!
Yet here you are, missing out on what you might be thinking is one of the greatest moments of your life. To make matters worse,you’re notified and a text rings through, again you are invited in as an observer to the many pleasures and scents of the moment.What do you do? Mostly, all you can do is post a response on your friend’s wall as you remain a virtual wall flower.
According to the article, “Feel Like a Wallflower? Maybe It’s Your Facebook Wall”, Behavioral Psychologist, having studied the behavior of the techno geeks found their actions to be addictive in some instances, while Professor Ariely said, …”You can imagine how things could have been different, and that really motivates us to behave in strange ways.”
I can surely relate to feeling like a “virtual wallflower” several times on Facebook. It seems like a competition sometimes whoever updates their profile picture in a new “exciting” place is cool and has such an interesting life, so dare I argue my face hasn’t changed that drastically from last week til present day..I am a loser!!! Woe is me. -_-
Vote for Me..I’m on Facebook?!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/us/politics/20social.html?_r=2
Here’s an open invitation with a twist!!
Everyone is invited to a town hall meeting with President Obama and Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook.This town hall style meeting will be held at the Facebook headquarters, and focus is on the Economy. Since Tuesday afternoon, more than 22,000 of the chief’s 19.3 million followers had responded to the call by signing up. If we remember, during the last election President Obama was able to galvanize supporters to action by utilizing the current social media tools available, and quite effectively so. Tools like Twitter, Facebook,Apps. Testing, Youtube etc. leaving his Republican counterparts in the dust.
However, for the upcoming 2012 elections the Republicans have all geared up, and are better prepared this time around for the online battle. The driving force for this swift progression into the technological age by the Republicans was recognized by them to be one of expedience. Now more than ever,with voter empowerment on an all time high, is there any wonder both groups are sustaining, maintaining, and upgrading their use of these social media tools available to them?
I personally don’t blame Republicans for trying to join the social media bandwagon. People feel like they have a better understanding or deeper connection with celebrities through this medium, so it could definitely work in favor of a politician.
Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and specially designed applications..watch out and prepare yourself for a news feed full of slogans to court and coax prospective voters for the 2012 elections!!!
Book your next trip on Facebook!
The thought of booking your next trip on Facebook sounds like such a relief. You no longer have to keep searching endlessly on google for the best price out there. This is what hotels are coming around to doing in order to beat sites like Expedia and Travelocity. In this article in the New York Times, this is exactly what is going on around Facebook. Hotels want to get control back on their hotel deals. They are looking at what people click on for their “likes” in order to make sure their hotel provides exactly what each person wants out of their trip. Therefore, if someone like a certain type of pillow or special service, they will be provided with this on their next trip to that hotel. I think that this is a great idea because people will get exactly what they ask for. There will be much less disappointment in their trip and they would get what they pay for. As they say you always want to get your moneys worth and what better way to do this then have a hotel make you feel special with your needs.
Once people press the like button on Facebook, the hotel wants to contact them as soon as possible. The hotels want to make sure that they are the ones who are searching for you as opposed to the other way around. This in my opinion is great service, in a way it what they call “silent service” which is something everyone likes. The customers do not have to tell the hotel what they want or looking for, the hotel searches and finds out what the people like and want. According to the New York Times article, PhoCusWright, a travel research firm, has found that 13 percent of social-network users now shop for travel on those Web sites and 35 percent of mobile-phone users expect to book travel on their phones in the next year.The Trump Hotel Collection has been offering Facebook reservations for 6 months. The Facebook reservations would allow guests to put their complaints out on the companies page or enter sweepstakes to win a free hotel stay!
Douglas Gorenstein
Ivanka Trump of the Trump Organization. “When I tweet out a hotel special, a million people see it.”
Harsh Reality or Overkill?
In Old Saybrook Connecticut, a high school ran an internet safety assembly.
Yet many students felt violated and that the school had infringed on their privacy. The school used photos, tweets and status updates from freshman that were required to attend the assembly.
The school found these items because students had no idea how to protect their privacy, which is something that we have spoken about in class often. Debating the idea of protecting our Internet privacy and younger generations living in a world where everything is sharable.
The principle of the school insists “say the purpose of the assembly was to make students aware of how public their “tweets,” photos and profiles are online if their privacy settings aren’t strict enough”. The school used photos and other items that were publically accessible.
I think the students that are outraged should be learning a lesson and understanding that it is not only their friends who can access their internet personas but parents, teachers, etc. I believe the school taught its lesson on privacy in a really effective way, by showing the lack of it that so many students have.
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.
The Diary of Facebook
On March 30, 2011, MTV premiered the Diary of Facebook. It takes a behind-the-scenes look at how facebook was started, how it is run, and how it operates. It features facebook creator, Mark Zuckerburg, as well as many of his employees, and it shows the evolution of facebook.
Though I have not watched the whole thing, from what I gather, it only focuses on the positives of what social media can do. The thirty minute shows discusses how one woman was able to find long-lost family members, and how another man whom has a serious disease, is able to engage with the world around him.
Often times, I think because of the class we are in and the things we hear in society, it is easy to discuss the negatives of social media. Personally, anything I have posted about social media on this blog has been negative, but it is important to look at the pros too.
Facebook, and other popular networking sites, are beneficial for a number of reasons. If they were not, why would so many of us be on them? Facebook can definitely be used as a tool to find family members, old friends or neighbors, etc. It is also a good way for businesses to promote themselves, by creating a site and letting everyone know all they need to about their business. My brother recently ventured into the business world and bought a bar in Park Slope. It is in a somewhat desolate place in the neighborhood, definitely not a high traffic area. However, with the use of websites such as Facebook, and Yelp!, he has been able to let people know of drink & food specials, as well as karaoke nights and when bands or disc jockeys will be performing. This has definitely helped his business reach out to a larger audience.
I definitely think there are both pros and cons to all social media websites, but that goes for anything in life. People need to be mature about their internet use and many problems can definitely be avoided.
New York Social Media Week
In an article published on January 13, 2011, author John Egan discusses the predictions people have made for the future of “social media in 2011.” The article was entitled, “2011 Social Media Forecast: Privacy Concerns, Tumblr, E-mail, Facebook on the Rise,” and the author mentions thirteen different predictions that companies have made for the future of the internet, which reminded me of the video we watched in class since the protagonist was so knowledgeable on the future of the internet. A few of the predictions definitely stand out as they are happening already. One in particular, made by MSLGroup states that, “social networkers will realize their online friends with too many co-workers and acquaintances. As a result, they may scale back their Facebook friends or turn to social networks that are more private.” I have definitely seen this trend occurring already, especially with numerous amounts of people getting fired due to what they do/say on facebook.
The article also, in a way, seems to be proposing somewhat of a demise of facebook in 2011. Forrester said, “facebook doesn’t own social media in 2011,” however I think right now they do. On the other hand, I think it is almost a matter of time before people stop using facebook and move solely to twitter (though I do not have a twitter account) or the next new social media website. People are always looking for bigger and better; anyone remember myspace? Myspace will, in my opinion, soon be a nonexistent site since it seems that barely anyone still has an account, and out of the people that do have accounts, many do not even use it. I presume that the same thing will happen to facebook.
Facebook = The New Josh Harris?
After watching the 2009 documentary We Live in Public in class, I’ve been trying to be more wary of my privacy settings on various social media outlets. You could probably say I have some weird form of techie OCD when it comes to Facebook; about once a week, I check my privacy settings and friend lists (along with profile and photo album visibility regarding said lists) just to make sure everyone is seeing what I want them to see. On this particular day of appeasing my techie OCD, I came across a strange discovery.
If you have a Facebook account, do the following and tell me you don’t feel like Mark Zuckerberg (*cough* Josh Harris *cough*) is hoarding your internet activity to use at a later time. Go to:
Facebook > Account > Account Settings > Download Your Information (Learn More)
Granted, I wasn’t surprised that Facebook had just weaseled this option in there without any sort of warning or notification (it’s about as common as waking up and seeing your profile layout completely changed for the fifth time), but you have to admit, the idea that Facebook has every wall post, photo album, video, friend on your list, note, event listing, and message thread neatly converted into .html format and then compressed into a huge .zip file is a little strange, to say the least.
After I told Facebook that I wanted to download my information, it took almost a whole day to receive a confirmation e-mail with the link to download MY OWN INFORMATION.
Granted, although it creeped me out a little bit to see everything organized like that, I was actually relieved that this folder didn’t also include everything I had ever posted or written on other people’s profiles. However, you know that the instant someone decides to download their information, any comment or post I had put on their profile will be saved forever for them to see.
After raising an eyebrow at Facebook for 40 minutes as I downloaded my internet life in a .zip file, I began to wonder, “What would make Facebook want to do this?” Other than the rare occasion that eeeeeevery single server for Facebook crashes beyond repair and people lose their files forever, I have a very strange feeling that one day we’re going to have the choice (or necessity) to buy this seemingly useless collection of data.
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