Im never in the right place at the right time!

   Last Wednesday i was sick and didn't get to com to class. As soon as i saw Lena i knew i had to find out exactly what was going on because i feel as if it is really easy to get behind in this class. She told me that i missed out on a awesome class so then i was even more bummed because i had been miserable on Wednesday and missed out on a total party :( I was informed that two way cool people named....

Invincible

Waajeed

    So needless to say after i found out their names i got on the computer and had to check them out. I found out that Waajeed is a very good producer and has made his way up in the jobs of producing and that Invincible was named best female hip hop artist in 2008 in Detroit. They look like a big party and i seriously hate that i missed out on getting to chat with them. I am also so excited to see the video that they made with the older film students. I'm sure it will be amazing! Lena also informed me that everyone in the class got filmed and had to tell there name and all that jazz so I'm not really that upset that i missed that!

Citations for Final Project

For my final project i will be using many difrent social media sites and have not finished deciding what parts of them i will use but i will be using:

1. Youtube
2. Twitter
3. Facebook
4.Blogger react to a religion quiz. (2010, October 1). Retrieved from http://www.journalism.org/index_report/bloggers_react_religion_quiz
5.Gay rights: an audience online. (2010, March 11). Retrieved from http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1522/gay-rights-blogosphere
6. Pew Research center
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Pew research Center, Initials. (n.d.). Privacy policy. Retrieved from http://pewsocialtrends.org/privacy-policy/

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The rock and roll of the digital generation. (2010, December 9). Retrieved from http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/12/15/online.privacy.generational/index.html?hpt=Sbin

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Patients seek moral and medical support online. (2011, March 3). Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/2011/03/03/134235469/More-Patients-Seeking-Medical-Support-Online

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Life on the Web!

Online Info

Thesis: When someone commits a crime or does something wrong is it fair to put what they have done online for many people to see or should all of that information just be between their families and the police or sheriffs?

      The article i found on LexisNexis is about a lady who was seen on a video picking up a cat by his fur and throwing it. To many different people this video can be looked at in several different ways. Some say that this video could be considered animal abuse but many other people made valid points about the video in my article. They went on to talk about how a man on YouTube got thousands of views when he posted a video of a man dressed as a cat putting a video in a can. This video was directly related to the lady who had thrown the cat. When the owners found the cat in the garbage they quickly went out to find who the lady was that had thrown the cat in the garbage. Soon after they started the pursuit to find the lady her name,address and other information was all over the web.  She not only had her information all over the web but she was having death threats sent to her at home and at work. Posting things on the web can be very dangerous but might also help people out in many different situations that we are put in.A year ago district attorney Brett Ligon in Texas announced "he will put all the people that were arrested for being drunk or drunk driving on twitter." I feel as if this would be a good idea for many states to start going to and no its is not the person that actually committed the crime but this could possibly make it where people will be too embarrassed and will cut back some. Some people feel that this is a way of calling them out but they can find it in the newspaper anyways so its not actually most different besides people use online more than they get a newspaper or even check the newspaper online.Warren Dieprram stated "if a person is found not guilty on then i will remove their name form the tweet or online from the site i put them on." Some counties that have tried to go to tweet and put the information on facebook have found that the replies that they get back are racist and could even become dangerous. I feel like these are a good idea but most be monitored in order to make sure that they work out like they should.

Holson,Laura M. "The New Court Of Shame is Online." New York Times Company. New York: 2010


https://docs.google.com/a/crimson.ua.edu/viewer?a=v&pid=gmail&attid=0.1&thid=12e7730fa27f3dd8&mt=application/pdf&url=https://mail.google.com/a/crimson.ua.edu/?ui%3D2%26ik%3Dc2def0a0da%26view%3Datt%26th%3D12e7730fa27f3dd8%26attid%3D0.1%26disp%3Dattd%26zw&sig=AHIEtbRJrJD-TqiHUg9n_NuiWSHK379jyw&AuthEventSource=SSO

Catfish!

Honest mistake or just flat Dumb??

       So in all honestly i have very few words to describe the movie Catfish. It was extremely interesting but also very out of this world. It made me think a whole lot about what was being filmed and what was being said. One of the main things that really got me thinking was the question "Is this real or is it all fake?" I really thought the movie was real throughout the first couple of minutes. I then really began to wonder when Nev was wearing and doing the same thing in two different parts of the movie. The first time this was shown was before we ever even knew if he was going to do the movie or even see if he was going to carry on a relationship with the family. The second time he was on the phone with "Megan" or so he thought that he was. Does this show that he is really lonely and looking for someone to talk to or is it a mistake that any one of us could have made? This question brings out many different sides to the story. The paintings were so pretty and looked amazing so was he really thinking in his head that an eight year old painted these? I feel as if that is a very unrealistic thing at such a young age. Also i think it is very odd that every single time he wanted to talk to Abby she was not able to come to the phone. I feel like there were soo sooo soo many signs saying that this isn’t true but he never picked up on them. All the work that went in to this big lie was incredible. I believe their really has to be something wrong with Angela. I understand that there is a lot going on at her house and that she obviously is very lonely but taking it this far is crazy! I think it could even be considered identity theft for her to go to the extent of everything that she has. Yes, their pictures where put online and we all put pictures online but stealing them and making them your own is not normal. She also continued to lie about knowing them straight to Nevs face. You would think after all the lying she has done and all the pain she has put him through that she would just stop and be honest. I don’t understand why this happened but both sides of the story are pretty weird! If you really think about it both of them could have really gotten themselves in danger and Angela really needs help. One question that i have been really wondering about is if she ever got help? Did someone see the movie and decide to help her?
       

Could My______ Be Harmeful??

       Myspace can take a life!

        This past week i spent some time going through and reading what all people had to say about myspace. Their were some interesting comments made as well as many diffrent sites that talked as myspace being used to bully kids. I was very interested in the story about the 13 year old girl so i got lucky that it was the first thing that popped up on google. Megan Meier was the young girl that took her life in this case. A man made a fake account and talked to her pretending that he was only 16 and told her really mean stuff like "the world would be a better place without her." Who would have ever known that something like myspace could lead to something that terrible. The man that was accused of this told the judge and jury that he is not guilty of this crime. I guess he is dumb and has not read the article that we had to read! It is so much easier for inverstigators to go in and find out all that happened behind the words or pictures on the screen. When i was younger i had a myspace and i can still remember all those creeper people that would try to add me as a friend and i always excepted them and looking back i have no clue why the heck i ever did that. I am very lucky that i never had to encounter a mean man such as the one that made this poor little girl take her life. Little words can make a diffrence in a life.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356056,00.html (Story about young girl)

Tracking the bad guys

        The article that we were REQUIRED! to read was a very interesting article. I find myself dreading the face that i have to read or watch videos for this class but a couple minutes in to them i am all about them. I had no clue of all the things the police could do through social networking sites. You would think that many of the people who where posting the things they do would think about the fact that others could see the things they were posting. So as much as these sites have been leading to bad things in the world they have also been leading to many other things that are good for the world and for the people in it. So many people think its way cool to post a picture of them with a gun but what if somebody they knew was killed with the same gun they had in their hand? Even if they werent the ones to shoot that person the police would go to them as one of the first suspects. Getting online and checking out the social networking sites can either be a good thing or a bad thing and lately they have all been good. They have helped save lives and put all the bad people behind bars.

Who are you on Myspace?

    Myspace makes it where you can change who you are or be the real you. Many people change their looks and age. This can cause many people problems but they do not care and do it anyways. It also is where many people put their music and try to become something big. But with so many people trying to be famous who will ever really make it? should they try Youtube?

      

Snow Day

        So last week it snowed and it was sooo soo pretty! so i decided that i would go out with some of my friends and take some picture! i love to take pictures and recently just got a new camera that i have no clue how to work so it was fun to get to go and test it out around town.

         We had so much fun playing in the snow and taking pictures! it was super cold and i had tennis shoes on so the snow like melted through the mesh and that was just bad news! man i dont think i could feel my toes for hours after we went out there! it was crazy cold!!!!!!! while we were out by the bridge a train came and it was just the engine and i have never seen that so it was pretty funny because we expected a actual long train and all we got was a short little weanie one! haha 

What used to be CoOL!

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.