Facebook Privacy

Facebook is dying. True. Although I still personally go on it out of pure boredum and as a way to see how pathetic my "friends" as Facebook so lightly puts it, from high school are doing, I really have no purpose for it.  I sadly have moved onto the Twitter world but purely for Networking purposes. Being a chapter president for a national organization it's really hard to maintain a proper image while still in undergrad, so I just have my entire privacy page on Facebook....BLOCKED.  What's the fun in that? It's not because no one can see the emabarrassing pictures or comment stupid things on my wall and I even changed my name so I'm basically unsearchable. However, as we all know there are loopholes.  So again, where is the line drawn in the sand for privacy when it comes to Facebook. It's no longer a fun social networking media outlet because I can't connect with my "friends" online.  My co-workers aren't my friends, they are co-workers and there are also boundaries on what you should and shouldn't post about work.  There is boundries for everythin that you want you post and actually do post and yet you find ourself still needing to "clean up" your social media pages should someone happen to skim your page and not approve of what is on it.

wikipedia response

I have read a lot of content on Wikipedia and use their site[s] frequently when needing a quick reference to help me familiarize myself with topic that I briefly forgot or even if it’s to have secondary research on a topic when writing a paper.  I usually use Wikipedia websites as a secondary source of research or information because professors have always stressed to never rely on the information posted in Wikipedia; however posts have been regulated more frequently, so it seems more credible.  Wikipedia can be a great website resource in which students wanted to refer back to or even have as a starting reference so they have some background knowledge of the topic they need to discuss.  The most common search engine used today is Google and when you Google any topic, usually the first site to come up is Wikipedia, naturally people are going to click on it.  That’s why is has become more credible and reliable over the years, because of its popularity.

Wikipedia is also evolving and advancing itself as a website because whatever that is being posted on to the sites about an issue or a topic or anything else needs to have a credible source and these sources are now being linked onto the webpage itself so they can be used for further backup.  I will generally just use Wikipedia for my own personal use when I need to find a quick piece of information and remind myself about something that I forgot or couldn’t remember.

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Response to YouTube.

It's pretty fascinating to see how far and how popular the website YouTube has become over the years. It basically started as a place to share original videos to a small community who wanted to document their memories, now YouTube has turned into this personal video diary. Anyone can create an account and if you want your voice heard and share your thoughts on just about anything then YouTube allows you to post just that. YouTube also gives average people to start networking and branding themselves in a sense because talent agents search and scan on websites like these for new artists to sign. YouTube allows people to express themselves in any way they want as well as giving them the opportunity to post and share their experiences, memories and talents in a bigger way than you could’ve years past.

I thought the video of “Noah takes a photo of himself” was interesting. It’s cool to see how you can take clips and photos from anywhere and create a whole video about that just one thing in still shots. The vlogs are again a great way for people to express themselves in a different manner than that has been created before. There used to be websites like Xanga and other online diaries that you could write in but it doesn’t get your message across as powerfully as a video log would. And it’s interesting to see that since one person started a vlog or some sort of video (even the crazy dancing wedding proposals) that not everyone wants to do something similar and post it on YouTube.

Draft Abstract and Bibs

Social media, is it a fad? Or can you really prove that social media is changing the way that we communicate with each other and how it is evolving and consuming our daily lives. Media before was very simple: newspapers, radio, and television. Today, news is updated constantly and through several media outlets. If the news isn’t updated constantly the minute it happens, the public reacts disapprovingly. That’s how our society has evolved. We have grown so accustomed to having news, information, and facts at the touch of a button (literally) that when we have to wait for an update to occur we don’t know how to react. Imagine if media releases were still has slow as they were decades ago?

Media today has drastically changed with not only each other but how we receive important information regarding daily news. Social media has adapted into our daily lives by quickly changing the way we view and use various media outlets. If we wanted to voice our opinions years ago we would write a letter to a company or hold a protest. The chances of the company’s CEO ever reading that letter would rarely ever happen. Now all you have to do is Tweet at the company’s CEO and chances are they will read it and take into consideration what you are posting if it of constructive criticism value toward their company. Social media today allows for a more “open” approach for the public to voice their opinion to be publicized.

1. Herron, Ken. "Why is Social Media Important?." Social Grow. SocialGrow Inc., 07 06 2010. Web. 6 Oct 2011. .

This website discusses the importance of social media in general. It’s almost like an opinion column where the public is allowed to write to the author to discus their major concerns with social media and its effectiveness; and the author replies to specific e-mails that will benefit her public audience. This website is useful for my overall project and helps define my abstract because it defines what social media is. Although there is no clean cut definition of what social media is, it allows readers to grasp a better understanding of what to expect what using social media outlets.

2. "Social Media Dashboard." HootSuite. HootSuite, 10 06 2011. Web. 6 Oct 2011. .
This website is a vital tool for social media. It allows users who frequently update their Twitter accounts to set up their Tweets in advance to be timed and post at a certain time frame.