BBC'S Virtual Revolution
When i started to watch these videos i was not looking forward to them at all. I thought that they would be long boring and stupid but i watched them anyways(I mean Krotoski did spend ten entire years working on them). While watching them I learned many different interesting facts. I believe that some people such as Chris Anderson take posting stuff on the web to the extreme. He thinks that you shouldn't post a picture ever. But the reality is if you are safe with the picture and don't do dumb things like talk to people you don't know you should be fine. Also, if you don't put scandalous pictures online your pictures will not be traded by other people. It is hard for many kids to know what is wrong to do on the web because they are so young so if parents are really worried about their kids not having an imagination or even for there safety they could easily just either 1. get them fun educational games 2. put a block on all sites that you don't want them to go too on a daily basis 3. not let them get on the computer at all. Yes, i think that too much computer usage can affect a child's imagination and social skills but if a parents is being a good parent then they wont let there kid spend that much time on them. I was shocked to see that South Korea was the most wired country out there. So they really do deserve to be called homoenterneticus but i dont know about the rest of us. When the teacher was talking about how kids wont have friends if they didn't play that certain game or do what the other kids were doing broke my heart. That should not be the case at all and those parents need to make their kids go play outside. Its good for them and will help them not be anti-social. Choosing to allow their kids to spend hours upon end on the computer can effect the relationships they have and cause them not to form more. The videos made a great point when they said that we do not spend enough time with each other because we are constantly picking up our phones to do other things. Even silly things such as play little games that take no skill or time. Did Tim Berns-Lee create an awesome thing when he created the web? Yes, but we need to be responsible with it.
My______
Myspace is a social networking site that was created in August of 2003. The site was created so that it could use the same cool features that Friendster had but become even better than the already popular site. The first users on myspace where all people who worked within eUniverse. When creating their myspace they had a competition to see who could get the most friends in a certain amount of time. The workers used all the resources that they had to attempt to get many users to use this site. Since they already had a huge database of emails they used the 20 million emails they had to send out a mass email about becoming a part of myspace. This email caused myspace to spread like wild fire. When the age limit for Facebook was set so that only high school students and above i decided to get a myspace. In all honesty i have no earthly clue why i decided to get one and it was really super lame now that i think about it. I was always searching for new ways to get a cool background or cool glitter font on the front of my page. It was soo overrated and just like facebook now it consumed my life!!! like i didn't go a day without getting on it atleast 4 times. I feel so dumb now that i think about how i was addicted to it but i guess that is part of life. Now i feel as if the only people that are still on myspace are small town people or even small bands. In late 2010 Myspace decided that they were no longer going to compete with Facebook that they were going to become more centered around music. I think this was a awesome idea and possibly one of the only ways they would make it on the web.
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