First, to begin with, I was very interested in Levinson’s discussion about this topic. First and foremost, my experience with Myspace was interesting because I felt like i was addicted to this site for a bit of time. But now that I look back at my experience I see Myspace as a very immature site. People were able to create their own themes, and add a personal song to their page. Also, being able to create your “top 8” friends was a major factor of Myspace as well. Myspace is defiantly for the younger audience. As a grow older, I am now aware of cyberbullying stories. Although i don’t watch the news on a every day basis, I know that there is a new story about bullying and a child who has killed their self after being manipulated or threatened online.
Foursquare & Hardware: Chapter 7
Foursquare is not as known compared to Facebook or Twitter. Foursquare only exists on smart phones, and not on laptops. Foursquare is known to be a site where you check in telling the world where you are located. As humans we have adapted to technology progressing. In our generation with all the technology progressing, so is the hardware and services. For instance, back in the day it was seen that iPhones only last for 30 minutes. Now, the iPhone now lasts 4 hours and 30 minutes. It’s crazy to thin about all the adcancements and what is yet to come.
Chapter 10 ( Politics and New New Media)
In Chapter 10, Levinson discusses about President Obama’s campaign. He includes and describes the methods that are used to attract the audience. As a reader, I witness the ways the new new media has played in our society in the rise of multiple political organizations. Levinson then discussed on the way that new new media gives out information to society. In our generation, it is so easy for people to find issues or information. But currently, there’s an issue where people would rather include false information. People will believe anything they see and that is a major effect on how new new media influence the election and the people in it.
The Dark Side of New Media: Chapter 9
In this chapter, Levinson goes on to discuss the negative sides of new new media. Levinson discusses and includes many topics about the fears of our society. These topics include bullying, Flaming and Trolling, Online Gossipping and Cyberbullying, Tweeting and Terrorism, Spam, Craiglist Bank Heist, Overreaction, and Cyberstalking. levinson first starts his discussion about guns and the good and the bad. He discusses how they are very dangerous but then discusses that guns can be represented as good for protection. I really likes this analogy because it made me think about people and their negative actions. Also, because of new media, bullying has become an effect. I believe that this is true because no sites like Facebook have made it easier for people to become victims because a lot of people are very cruel over the internet.
Uncle Arranging Boston Bomb Suspect’s Burial Rites
Wow !
*A Story of A Suicide..
The Story of A Suicide
By Ian Parker
The story was so interesting. It’s crazy to think how much new media plays a crucial role in allowing events to happen, especially suicide. Suicide is one of the most concerns that new media plays on people. A lot of social media sites give the ability to threaten or abuse someone online. There have been thousands of incidents where kids get gossiped about on a social network site to the point where it leads to the person’s death. Tyler Clementi’s death was because of a similar situation. “Ellen DeGeneres declared that Clementi has been ‘outed as being gay on the Internet and he killed himself. Something must be done’”. This problem of bullying online isn’t getting any better, just worse.
*Levinson: Twitter Response
First and foremost, I love Twitter and all the possible feautures that you can do on it. Twitter is what is slowly taking over Facebook. Even though Facebook has a billion users, I may think a good amount of their people attract older adults nowadays. A good amount of the participants on Twitter seem to be business owners, and middle aged children as well. You don’t hear much of a parent having Twitter. As of May 2009, there are 32 million of users on Twitter. Imagine 4 years later, how much users on in it now? Levinson states that Twitter is growing faster than any other social medium. Twitter’s privacy is much better thann Facebook. Levinson points out that you can under cover yourself and put your name as anything the user likes. The good thing about Twitter is it’s ability to do whatever you please. You can post whatever is on your mind and people won’t care, until it gets to a point where its annoying. Twitter has been very helpful to business people and the news. The ability to “retweet” makes it so easy for things to get around.
Levinson: Facebook
This chapter was a very interesting read. In the section titled, “Myspace vs. Facebook: Subjective Differences, Levinson states that “the principle is that we most love what we first experience”. Levinson makes a good point here. If we first experience and read a series and watch the movie, we won’t love it as much. But if we watch the movie first and then read the series, we won’t be as impressed. He then says that when you have a good amount of people on one site, your more likely going to use and like it more than the other. In the section listed Myspace vs Facebook: Objective Differences, Facebook has a much higher ratio of real-life friends than Myspace. Facebook is now popularly seen as a family-based site where families can go and connect with each other in an easier way. Another difference that Levinson brings up is that Myspace allows creators to decorate their profile with images, different colors, and sounds while Facebook is very general and everyone has the same layout which makes more mature people attracted to Facebook. Facebook has made some changes to their site allowing creaters to add a cover photo to their profile. Also, Myspace and Facebook both have “groups” who share and discuss different things, depending on the group.
*Pancacke Person
What is a “pancake person”? Are you one? And is it a bad thing?
Yes, I can honestly say that I am a pancake person. I am part of the young generation where I rely on Google, Facebook and Twitter.
Social Networking Sites: Public, Private or What ?
Social Networking Sites: Public, Private, or What ?
By: Danah Boyd
Some people believe that social sites like Facebook, Myspace, and Bebo (which is unfamiliar to me) are corrupting the young youths live. They think that social sites are doing nothing but destroying them. This article specifically talks about social networking sites because public, private, etc. To create a profile on any one of these sites, the user is asked to represent themselves through their personal profiles. How they see themselves, teens post pictures, statuses, videos, etc. Social Networking sites aren’t really private. Unless someone sets their profile as private, then yes, the profile is private. But, for the most part, as far as I know, most people have their profile set as public. I am kind of surprised by that because anyone and anybody could view one’s profile and find a lot about someone because of the amount of information a usual profile contains. A lot of people’s so-called “friends” aren’t really their friends, just random people that “they know”. A lot of people just add people if they’re a friend of their friends. In addition, people like to be nosey and add people just to see what they’re doing. Public Safety is defiantly something that should be looked over because someone’s profile is their identity, who they are, where there from, and what they are doing.
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