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Making Future Plans of a Social Network…
In the new york times article A social network for making future plans, it talks about a new website where you can make plans in the future. This is different because usually when you log in to Facebook or Twiter, you talk about your current plans, or plans that have been done in the past. With WhereBerry, you can share your future plans. Its actually pretty easy, you log in with your Facebook information and all of your friends that are using the website will come out in your feed and they can let you know what they are planning in the future.
This is an interesting website, because all of your ideas for planning for the future can be done and maybe you can find a buddy or two to do them with. It is also a good idea, because you can see what your friends are doing, and get ideas of what you can also do with another set of friends as well. Maybe you didn’t know that the backstreet boys were going to be in town in October, but you just found out that your friend Jane bought tickets for their concert already, and now you must have a pair. This can also work with restaurants that you want to visit. When you like celebrity pages, they can let you know what they are doing in the future and maybe you can go ahead and meet them at a certain place.
Twitter makes you Stupid… Huh?
I came across the article The Twitter Trap, and I though it was really interesting. The author starts talking about how he let his 13 yr old daughter get a Facebook, (I don’t have the slightest idea why he would let his 13 yr old get a facebook) and how she had 171 friends within a few hrs. He talks about inventions such as the calculator diminishing our math skills, “GPS has undermined our mastery of city streets,” and how typing has “killed penmanship.”
So what has Twitter done to us!? Not only can our tweets be 140 characters long, (if you don’t use one of those special websites) you have to figure out how to say what you want to say in 140 characters. This causes us to make up abbreviations, misspell words, and not use correct grammar. Its fine for twitter, i’m pretty sure 90% of the people who follow you will understand, but more than often you will find yourselves writing a paper for class and using the same characteristics. Instead of writing “you”, you write “u.” It takes you more time to write a paper because you have to be going back and correcting what you are misspelling. This is just one of the few ways that twitter makes you stupid. I am guilty of all of this, because as I sit here writing this post, I have to go back and fix my misspelling of u and r.
-Armenis Perez
Twitter in the Classroom
This article in the New York Times called Students Speak Up In Class, Silently, Using Social Media, talks about using a sort of like a twitter in the classroom. It is a backchannel system where students could ask questions and participate in lectures without having to raise their hands. This is great when it comes to those students who are shy and do not like to speak up in class. I hate speaking up in class, it gives me anxiety, and i get nervous. This is how a lot of the students who are shy in class feel, and this new program helps them get through their fear and earn some participation points in class. Its much easier to type in a comment or an answer to a question where no one has their eyes on you and are judging you.
This has become a little controversial. Some say that schools worked so hard to keep text messaging and social networks away from schools and this type of program brings it back. Some say its a great idea to create participation within the whole class, and let those people who do not participate in person, do so by the computer. It encourages dialogue within the students, and a classroom experience that almost no-one has yet to experience.
This blog for example is a great way to communicate and give your opinions about the different articles that we each post. It creates communication within the students and the professor even for those who are shy to say anything in class.
-Armenis Perez
Digital City
It’s no secret that technology has become an important part in nearly everyone’s live, whether directly or indirectly. In class, we’ve discussed how it affects our social lives, interactions, and relationships. An while technology has been used by both the private and public sector, it seems that the two have now combined.
In an annoucement made on Monday, May 16th, Mayor Bloomberg has pledged to make New York City the “No. 1 Digitial City”. Using the popular social networking sites of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and FourSquare, the goal is to make the City of New York more Internet accessible. It is also to redefine the presence of New York online, redesigning its website and plans to “to acquire a .nyc suffix for Web pages”. The city has also hired it’s first ever Chief Digital Officer.
After reading several articles, the point of all this is still unclear to me. The only explanation I could find was a quote from Mayor Bloomberg: “We want New York City to be the nation’s premier digital city – in how local government interacts with New Yorkers, in how New Yorkers have access to and capitalize on new technologies, and in how our tech and digital media sectors evolve, grow businesses and create jobs”. This, to me, seems pretty vague. The city appears to just be expanding on the general purpose of the Internet: to connect people more quickly and efficiently.
With all the budget cuts (including education cuts which have forced Baruch students to visit Albany and lobby to keep our Pell Grants and block outrageous CUNY tuition hikes), Bloomberg’s goal just seems pointless. He even flat out states that the city does not have the money to complete this task on its own and will look to companies for aid.
Don’t you think that the money can be better put to use? What about restructuring the MTA so we have fewer corrupt officials and more service? This may seem cynical but at the end of the day, the city is constantly trying to bring in tourists and improve the things that RESIDENTS have no concern over.
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Tagged digital city, Facebook, Foursquare, new york city, Social Media, Social Networking, tumblr, Twitter
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Social Media as a tool
The disaster in Japan gave a different use to social media. The concept similar to that of an illness narrative unfolded on the web. The internet “spawned creativity & innovation online amid a collective desire to ease suffering.” After the earthquake, tsunami & nuclear crisis during March, the people of Japan were able to use the internet mainly Twitter, to receive up to date real time information. As the earthquake & tsunami unfolded, the people of Japan were able to connect to Twitter to find their loved ones. Between March 7 to 13 the site grew by a third to 7.5 million users. Even one of the cities in Japan, Mitaka which is west of Tokyo, created a twitter.
Those directly affected by the disaster weren’t the only ones who used social media to connect. Many people became volunteers who used their blogs, Facebook & twitter to attempt to heal or at least comfort those suffering. A teacher living just outside of Tokyo created “Quakebook.” Quakebook is a collection of reflection, essays & images from various bloggers. IT plans to become a digital publication that will be sold. The proceeds of the publication will go to the Japanese Red Cross.
“World’s 1000 messages for Japan,” is another project that involves contributions from social media users. It consists of a collection of emailed notes & notes from Facebook users which then get posted to Twitter.
Social Media has used the Internet as a place to connect with people, share stories, give hope and volunteer time. It’s amazing that from countries & miles away we can all join in and let those suffering know they are not alone but rather there is someone here to lend a hand & do what they can.
This article discusses the extensive use of Social media by children under the age o 13. Face book terms of use stated that users have to be 13 and older to have an account on face book. This article stated that 7.5 millions children under the age of 13 have face book accounts and another 5 million children under the age of 10 have face book accounts. The most concerning thing about this is where are the parents of these young children and why are they allowed to have face book pages.
Another thing that the article stated was that their is a correlation between teen drinking and face book use. I don’t agree with this point I don’t think face book causes or facilities under age drinking.
The article also discusses that more and more companies are banning the access of face book and twitter from their computers. My job does not allow employees to access face book or twitter. However many employees use other ways to access face book and twitter. They go other websites that allow them to access face book and twitter.
Social Media Jobs
Since my previous post for assignment number four was about the positives of social media websites, instead of the negatives, I will continue with this trend. It is important to note that there are an immense amount of good things that social media websites can do for people, and since more and more continue to be created, it is important that people know about the benefits of them.
The obvious benefit is that it helps one another keep in touch. Whether it be someone with a disease who needs contact with the outside world, or someone who just wants to interact with their cousin who lives far away, social media websites are a necessity. Why? Let me ask you a question, when is the last time you picked up the telephone to call someone? This generation is focused on email & text messaging, and making a phone call has almost become a thing of the past.
I remember when I received my first cell phone. It had no color and the only game on it was snake. It was big and ugly, but it got the job done; making phone calls. Text messaging and social media websites, were not prevalent until the time I entered high school.
Another tremendous positive for social media websites is that there are more job opportunities, and since the economic decline, this is something everyone can be grateful for. By typing into google search : “Social Media Jobs,” this website popped up : http://www.socialmediajobs.com/ , with the headline “Social Media Jobs: Turn Your Passion into a Profession.” With such an engaging title, it was intriguing to me and it reminded me of why social media is a good thing. Many people enjoy writing their opinions, thoughts, etc. onto social media websites, and if it is something you love, why not turn it into a career? There have been many people who have visited Baruch for panel discussions in the library who have done this very thing. It may be difficult to ascertain, but almost nothing in life is easy.
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True or False?
As Professor McKinney mentioned in class today, the news that Osama Bin Laden had been shot dead was all over Twitter before the mainstream media or President Obama made any official annoucement. Although the news did not come from the White House directly, it has been reported that the information came from reputable sources associated with the White House with former ties to the US government.
Professor McKinney also commented on how quickly the information spread and that even the President has no control over the spread of official information. This reminded of the kid’s game Telephone and how the Internet is just a giant version of this game. In my opinion, modern technologies and the type of communication they allow for is less fact-based and more about hear-say. There is no real control of the type of information posted anywhere on the Internet. As a result, people are free to post the truth and its corresponding lies. They can also make up anything about everything. Or they may simply misunderstand the information they receive online.
This leads me to wonder: what, then, is the purpose of the Internet if there is no security and confidence in the information we receive? Personally, the vast amounts of information available on the Internet and anonymity of the people posting this information makes me paranoid about the whole situation. If there are so many false accounts of information out in the world, who’s to say that we won’t eventually forget the truth?
(This is somewhat unrelated, but this Tumblr post shows how information and images can be easy altered to deliver a message or convey a feeling.)
Communicate from beyond the grave
Social media has changed the way we live. Now it is changing death too. I’ve seen the facebook status posts that say “When I die, friends will go to my funeral, good friends will cry at my funeral, but my best friend will change my facebook status to ‘Chillin with Jesus’.” Well now your best friend won’t have to because you can now be prepared for death in the digital age. LifeEnsured is preparing people for specifically that. This service allows people to control what happens to their accounts. From beyond the grave you can control what happens to your facebook for example. You can have you facebook deactivated, disable wall posts, change everything to past tense and even post a final status. This service is offered for over 30 online services, including Facebook, Twitter and WordPress. You won’t have to worry about your digital information living on forever. LifeEnsured gets notified either by the Social Security Administration or your confidants who are people you select to notify LifeEnsured of your death. LifeEnsured will take care of anything from your match.com profile to transfer of ownership of your PayPal account to who controls your email. You can send out a final email and other various changes to any of your online accounts. This is a way of protecting all your digital information in a time where almost everything we do is documented online. There are different types of plans offered, some of which are free and an unlimited service is priced at $300.
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.
