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“10 Reasons You’ll Never Quit Facebook”
http://bit.ly/bi4FEZ
There are reasons every cause to shut down facebook has a facebook page. Its hard to give up what Facebook offers. The article is pretty messed up, but it has some truth to it. Enjoy.
The things in this slide show says alot about our culture and all the things posted are not set in stone, new things will come things will come that will be able to provide the same services that seem better. Facebook dominance is sometimes over stated. New trends will see light and Facebook will be the company that was phased out by new means of communication.
Blogs v Facebook
“What complicates analyses of blogs is that they are both the product of blogging and the medium through which the blogger produces their expressions. Blogs emerge because bloggers are blogging. And yet, what they are blogging to is the blog itself. Consider this in terms of another medium. Radio is a medium in which people express themselves, but the act of speaking to be broadcast is not radio-ing, nor is the product of speaking radio. Radio only exists when people’s speech is broadcast through radio waves. And yet, blogs are the bi-product of expression and the medium itself.”
I found this excerpt of Boyd’s “A Bloggers Blog” interesting in the way that it reflects language’s ability to adapt. Boyd states that “language is a medium” and that “mediums are also connected to and built on top of other mediums.” She indirectly supports this argument when she clarifies the terms blogging and blog, explaining how they are uniquely related. Blogs are built on the medium of language, and the term “blogging” was developed from the term “blog”. This reminded me of the way the term “facebooking” has come into the medium of language and is now a common verb in most people’s vocabularies.
But while both blogging and facebooking are common words in today’s vocabulary, both blogs and social networking services seem to serve different purposes. Blogs and social networking sites both serve the human need for acceptance and recognition (as we discussed in class), but Facebooking seems to have a more negative connotation than blogging. When most people think of blogging, they think of expressing one’s opinions or daily life. There is no negative or positive aspect to blogging. But when most people think of Facebooking, the connotation is negative. Facebooking suggests that someone is wasting their time checking their newsfeed every five minutes, creeping on someone else’s page, or constantly editing their profile. What’s strange to me is that both types of sites require the publication of private information, and in most cases, blogs are far more personal than Facebook profiles.
What does this suggest about the future of the internet? Will personal blogs continue to grow in number or will Facebook continue its domination over social media?
Also, to some degree, the development of Facebook and other social networking sites are based on the popularity of blogs. Why are social networking sites like Facebook far more common now than personal blogs? Do we prefer shorter, more concise status updates about generally trivial matters to the long, explained posts on different topics?
Facebook Drama
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/11/21/Anti-Facebook-preacher-admitted-affair/UPI-24431290389780/
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=facebook+drama
We’ve all heard of the term “Facebook drama”. There is even an entry for “Facebook Drama” on Urban Dictionary in which the drama “encompasses emotional, personal things, including fights, [and] personal opinions”. However, a little over a year ago, a British man, Brian Lewis, took this term to another level by killing his girlfriend, HaleyJones, of 13 years after she changed her Facebook relationship status from “married” to “single”. It started as a small issue between the couple as she was spending more and more time online. Things blew out of proportion after Jones ended the relationship and a week later, she changed her relationship status. Lewis confessed that he became enraged by Haley’s time spent on Facebook and suspicious of an affair. He now faces a lifetime jail sentence.
This article doesn’t apply to everyone’s annoyance with Facebook usage, but it does make a statement of how Facebook can create many problems within relationships. As we discussed in class, people are showcasing their lives to the Facebook community and have the potential of meeting many new people. This can be viewed positively or negatively. I personally know of couples who fight when something surfaces on Facebook. Tagged pictures or a wall post from an ex-girlfriend are usually the causes. There is even a minister in New Jersey who condemns Facebook as “a gateway to adultery” even though he, himself, ironically engaged in group sex in the past.
There is no excuse for Brian Lewis’s behavior, but social media is proving to trigger some insecurity and “Facebook drama” in personal relationships.
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
Your Personal Life Isn’t Protected . . .
But your work life is! All workers rejoice! Maybe. Probably because the National Labor Review Board can get involved in this case (as opposed to Stacey Snyder who was still in the process of getting certified as a teacher and was still in school), Dawnmarie Souza’s wrongful firing lawsuit against American Medical Response came down in her favor this week. Souza was fired and denied union representation when she bad mouthed her boss with other colleagues on Facebook. As much as people discount the importance of unions in America, her denial of union representaiton was what brought her to the NLRB and probably what saved her. In the case of Stacey Snyder you have a student-teacher on her own at the whim of her school administration. Because Souza was able to argue that her firing was a violation of labor law, the NLRB, a relatively powerful government agency, took up her case. Aside from the issue of what kind of workers should be protected by the NLRB and other federal laws and just how much leeway teachers in training should have, the real sticking point here for me is that Souza’s speech was protected because it was directly work related. Snyder’s “drunken pirate” photo was not protected because it was not work related. Work related speech, ostensibly”public” in that it effects a number of people, remains something that we are willing to protect. Private speech and the life we live outside of work, evidently, is something we don’t really think is worthy of protection In American labor law at-will employment means at-will firing and people should realize that what they think is private and not related to their work life actually has a way of becoming public enough to warrant their termination. Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and other social media ride the line between what we understand to be public and private, so much so that maybe we need to do away with these terms in defining types of communication. It should be no surprise that the legal system is struggling to understand the separation between the two when it comes to social media.
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.
