So I've been thinking about it, and I don't think I should limit my paper to just tagging in pictures. I think I want to expand it to include tagging in status updates and wall posts, as well.
I think that expanding my topic will give me more to right about, because quite frankly I was kind of worried about length for this paper. I haven't found much research, though. And that worries me :( I'm not really sure what to do about that part of it. I guess I just have to keep looking. I wonder what I'll be able to find in terms of newspaper articles and such. I don't know. I'll keep thinking about it.
Peace and love,
Caitlin
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Argument topic
So I think I'm going to do my argumentative essay on whether or not Facebook users should be able to give permission when being tagged. Like, if my roommate takes a picture of me and uploads it, I think I should get a notification from Facebook asking whether or not I allow this tag. Granted, if people don't want others to see them doing stupid stuff they really shouldn't do stupid stuff. I just think that it would protect a person's privacy a little bit better.
I have a friend who was at a party, and she was drinking. She's my age, 18. She's in a sorority at another school, but before she was initiated the sisters in the house were watching the initiates-to-be like hawks. Anyway, she was caught by the sisters and her initiation was put off because the image she was reflecting to the house wasn't the image that the sisters wanted. She was bringing a bad reputation, and the sisters were finding out about it because she was tagged in pictures.
I'll look into this a little further and let you guys know what I found out.
Peace and love,
Caitlin
I have a friend who was at a party, and she was drinking. She's my age, 18. She's in a sorority at another school, but before she was initiated the sisters in the house were watching the initiates-to-be like hawks. Anyway, she was caught by the sisters and her initiation was put off because the image she was reflecting to the house wasn't the image that the sisters wanted. She was bringing a bad reputation, and the sisters were finding out about it because she was tagged in pictures.
I'll look into this a little further and let you guys know what I found out.
Peace and love,
Caitlin
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Facebook addiction
So I've heard that you can get addicted to Facebook. When I first heard that I thought to myself, "This is ridiculous." But after doing some reading, I've thought more and more that maybe it isn't so ridiculous. Maybe it's a little more scary that ridiculous.
http://articles.cnn.com/2009-04-23/health/ep.facebook.addict_1_facebook-page-facebook-world-social-networking?_s=PM:HEALTH
It shocks me that people can honestly become obsessed to the point of ignoring their child or jobs or even jeopardizing their marriages for something as silly as Facebook. Yes, it has become an integral part of our culture – connecting millions of people worldwide, starting revolutions – but honestly it's just a pretend world. It's a way for people to escape the daily harshness we have to face in real life. But come on, people. At the end of the day, you still have your responsibilities here, not in cyberspace.
Peace and love,
Caitlin
http://articles.cnn.com/2009-04-23/health/ep.facebook.addict_1_facebook-page-facebook-world-social-networking?_s=PM:HEALTH
It shocks me that people can honestly become obsessed to the point of ignoring their child or jobs or even jeopardizing their marriages for something as silly as Facebook. Yes, it has become an integral part of our culture – connecting millions of people worldwide, starting revolutions – but honestly it's just a pretend world. It's a way for people to escape the daily harshness we have to face in real life. But come on, people. At the end of the day, you still have your responsibilities here, not in cyberspace.
Peace and love,
Caitlin
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Facebook Chat and police
http://www.bradenton.com/2011/02/11/2949112/facebook-chat-leads-to-police.html
When I was a sophomore, I went to a national conference in Washington, D.C. that taught all its participants about national defense and security. So all week we (the students) were going to different seminars and places to learn about diplomacy, national policy, etc. I got to go to the Danish Embassy and the State Department building. It was pretty cool. Anyway one night there were different sessions we could go to that had speakers from different agencies, and I went to the one that had the representative from the FBI. She told us that if we were talking to someone on AIM and we wrote "I'm going to kill the President" then we would have FBI agents on our doorstep within 48 hours. I thought that was pretty neat.
So it kind of surprised me a little (and took me back 4 years) to see in this article that because a kid made a threat on Facebook Chat he was taken into the police station the next day and questioned about the threat of taking a weapon into school.
It wasn't like anyone was monitoring Facebook Chat or anything. The guy got into a fight with his ex girlfriend and her sister, and ended up making a threat about taking a weapon to school the next day and the girl's sister showed the message to her mother, who then called the school.
It just amazes me how technology can hurt people so badly that they would make threats like that. He wasn't really going to take anything to school, he was just angry at the girl for posting what she'd said about him and then saying he wasn't man enough to do anything about it. Anyway...so this tells me that no matter what your temper may be, you should never say anything you don't mean online. Or ever, really. But especially online, because once you do it's out there forever. It cannot be deleted, and honestly, it can come back and bite you badly.
Peace and love,
Caitlin
When I was a sophomore, I went to a national conference in Washington, D.C. that taught all its participants about national defense and security. So all week we (the students) were going to different seminars and places to learn about diplomacy, national policy, etc. I got to go to the Danish Embassy and the State Department building. It was pretty cool. Anyway one night there were different sessions we could go to that had speakers from different agencies, and I went to the one that had the representative from the FBI. She told us that if we were talking to someone on AIM and we wrote "I'm going to kill the President" then we would have FBI agents on our doorstep within 48 hours. I thought that was pretty neat.
So it kind of surprised me a little (and took me back 4 years) to see in this article that because a kid made a threat on Facebook Chat he was taken into the police station the next day and questioned about the threat of taking a weapon into school.
It wasn't like anyone was monitoring Facebook Chat or anything. The guy got into a fight with his ex girlfriend and her sister, and ended up making a threat about taking a weapon to school the next day and the girl's sister showed the message to her mother, who then called the school.
It just amazes me how technology can hurt people so badly that they would make threats like that. He wasn't really going to take anything to school, he was just angry at the girl for posting what she'd said about him and then saying he wasn't man enough to do anything about it. Anyway...so this tells me that no matter what your temper may be, you should never say anything you don't mean online. Or ever, really. But especially online, because once you do it's out there forever. It cannot be deleted, and honestly, it can come back and bite you badly.
Peace and love,
Caitlin
FB Career Chat
http://money.usnews.com/money/careers/articles/2011/02/09/facebook-chat-tuesday-ask-your-job-search-and-career-questions
So I found this article that says that Tuesday, February 15 people can go to a FaceBook and talk about any questions they may have about their jobs. I think that's pretty cool. My guess is it will be a live discussion, so I will be a lot like an online Q&A session. Very cool, if you ask me.
Peace and love,
Caitlin
So I found this article that says that Tuesday, February 15 people can go to a FaceBook and talk about any questions they may have about their jobs. I think that's pretty cool. My guess is it will be a live discussion, so I will be a lot like an online Q&A session. Very cool, if you ask me.
Peace and love,
Caitlin
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Facebook Ads
So one of the ads that showed up on my page was titled "White Collar's 36 Hours". It was some game you can play on usanetwork.com. I got this ad because one of the pages that I "liked" under television is White Collar.
The other three ads on my page were titled "French Language & Culture"; "Spring Break 2011"; and "Are you classic or edgy?". Honestly I have no idea why I got these. I looked through pages I have "liked" and I didn't see anything at all that connected to these. The only thing I can possibly think of is the fact that there was a period of about two weeks last semester when my roommate and I would do nothing but take quizes on Facebook, so I think that is where the ad for "Are you classic or edgy?" came from. The others I have no idea.
Maybe the Spring Break 2011 came because I always Google Hilton hotels in places like Hawaii because I've already decided that when I get married I want to honeymoon in a honeymoon suite in a Hilton in Hawaii.
I'm not really sure what made Facebook choose those ads for me.
Peace and love,
Caitlin
The other three ads on my page were titled "French Language & Culture"; "Spring Break 2011"; and "Are you classic or edgy?". Honestly I have no idea why I got these. I looked through pages I have "liked" and I didn't see anything at all that connected to these. The only thing I can possibly think of is the fact that there was a period of about two weeks last semester when my roommate and I would do nothing but take quizes on Facebook, so I think that is where the ad for "Are you classic or edgy?" came from. The others I have no idea.
Maybe the Spring Break 2011 came because I always Google Hilton hotels in places like Hawaii because I've already decided that when I get married I want to honeymoon in a honeymoon suite in a Hilton in Hawaii.
I'm not really sure what made Facebook choose those ads for me.
Peace and love,
Caitlin
Monday, February 7, 2011
FB Chat vs. Skype: What is better?
In my opinion, Skype is better. Why? Because you can talk to people without having to be their friends. You can video chat. You can easily search for people. Sooo my question is this: What experiences have you guys had with FB chat and Skype?
I guess the friend thing is because FB was made to be private. I don't really know if Skype was made to be private or not. Yeah, they have privacy settings, but they also have ways for people to get in touch with you without seeing your profile. Like, if your availability is set to SkypMe then you're going to get a lot more IMs than if your setting is on Online or Away or something like that.
I like being able to video chat with people. The other night I had to spend the night at my parents' house, and I got on Skype (from an app on my phone) and called my roommate and we video-chatted for a little while without having to use my phone minutes. That was pretty cool. Of course, if I hadn't been connected to WiFi it would have made my cellphone bill astronomical because of the use of the 3G data network, but whatever. I only used my cell phone because my laptop never gets Internet at my parents' house.
As for searching for people, it's really easy. All you have to do is type in the person's name, Skype name, phone number, etc. Then an itemized list comes up with possible matches. Like FB, the search comes up with different people and tells you the person's Skype name, maybe their name if their privacy settings haven't blocked it, and maybe where they're from, again if they haven't set their privacy settings to not show where they're from. Now that I'm thinking about it you actually have the option of putting where you're from in your profile at all when you create your account.
I'm Skyping with a friend of mine right now, actually. We are videoing and giving each other tours of our rooms :)
Gotta go, guys. Until next time,
Peace and love,
Caitlin
I guess the friend thing is because FB was made to be private. I don't really know if Skype was made to be private or not. Yeah, they have privacy settings, but they also have ways for people to get in touch with you without seeing your profile. Like, if your availability is set to SkypMe then you're going to get a lot more IMs than if your setting is on Online or Away or something like that.
I like being able to video chat with people. The other night I had to spend the night at my parents' house, and I got on Skype (from an app on my phone) and called my roommate and we video-chatted for a little while without having to use my phone minutes. That was pretty cool. Of course, if I hadn't been connected to WiFi it would have made my cellphone bill astronomical because of the use of the 3G data network, but whatever. I only used my cell phone because my laptop never gets Internet at my parents' house.
As for searching for people, it's really easy. All you have to do is type in the person's name, Skype name, phone number, etc. Then an itemized list comes up with possible matches. Like FB, the search comes up with different people and tells you the person's Skype name, maybe their name if their privacy settings haven't blocked it, and maybe where they're from, again if they haven't set their privacy settings to not show where they're from. Now that I'm thinking about it you actually have the option of putting where you're from in your profile at all when you create your account.
I'm Skyping with a friend of mine right now, actually. We are videoing and giving each other tours of our rooms :)
Gotta go, guys. Until next time,
Peace and love,
Caitlin
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Facebook and football
This talks about a guy who was recruited by one university and then switched to another because he was annoyed by people on Facebook. Then he was being talked about because he switched - also on Facebook. This just goes to show that with sites like Facebook a personal decision is NEVER personal anymore...even if you don't put it on, someone else will. This poor kid went through a nightmare just trying to figure out where he wanted to go to school.
Why is it that people have decided that everything is their business? Also, what gives them the right to speculate about another person's life, or about his mother's life? Stuff like this just irritates me to no end. The decisions one person makes are not the business of the rest of the world until that person decides to make his or her choices known. Even then, going so far as to say that he switched because of a family connection? Not only is that lame, it's low.
Check out the link:
http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/Top-recruit-quits-Facebook-following-living-nig?urn=highschool-313954
Peace and love,
Caitlin
Why is it that people have decided that everything is their business? Also, what gives them the right to speculate about another person's life, or about his mother's life? Stuff like this just irritates me to no end. The decisions one person makes are not the business of the rest of the world until that person decides to make his or her choices known. Even then, going so far as to say that he switched because of a family connection? Not only is that lame, it's low.
Check out the link:
http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/Top-recruit-quits-Facebook-following-living-nig?urn=highschool-313954
Peace and love,
Caitlin
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