- Facebook chat: MSN KILLER
- Status updates: Social or Nosy?
- Your profile wall: Part Of Your Life
- Applications: Fun Or An Invasion Of Privacy?
- Simplicity: What makes a network ...urrr...WORK!!
Monday, 9 February 2009
Sunday, 8 February 2009
Privacy in the internet world
Privacy is something that everyone in this world wantsm ut not something that everyone has.
You may say that some celebrity dont have any privacy, but they are exceptions.
As I said in one of my earlier blogs, "the web is a dangerous tool if used badly, but you must embrace the power of it with open arms"; it can be a dangerous tool because of the amount of information that people store on it.
Almost 100 million people are on social networking sites, such as facebook, and the amount of information that is on a website like that is staggering. You can find out peoples phone numbers, their email adress, where they live and a lot more. Starting a network such as facebook is an enormous responsibility.
One of the creators of facebook in a recent interview said that the site was originally started so that several universities could communicate and keep in touch with eachother and he had no intention in it growing as big as it is today.
I am on about four or five different sites such as twitter and facebook, and on both of these sites I have given only my name and e-mail address.
This reveals very little about me which is what you need on the web, privacy, because without that, what have you got?
You may say that some celebrity dont have any privacy, but they are exceptions.
As I said in one of my earlier blogs, "the web is a dangerous tool if used badly, but you must embrace the power of it with open arms"; it can be a dangerous tool because of the amount of information that people store on it.
Almost 100 million people are on social networking sites, such as facebook, and the amount of information that is on a website like that is staggering. You can find out peoples phone numbers, their email adress, where they live and a lot more. Starting a network such as facebook is an enormous responsibility.
One of the creators of facebook in a recent interview said that the site was originally started so that several universities could communicate and keep in touch with eachother and he had no intention in it growing as big as it is today.
I am on about four or five different sites such as twitter and facebook, and on both of these sites I have given only my name and e-mail address.
This reveals very little about me which is what you need on the web, privacy, because without that, what have you got?
Sunday, 1 February 2009
Microblogging!
Blogging,as we all know,is alive and well and is growing at an incredible rate. But dont you think that it is a bit of a devotion to be writing full length articles all the time? CHANGE HAS COME TO BLOGGING!
Microblogging is the all new form of blogging in which you write short sentances (only 140 characters!) about what you're doing at any moment in time.You can update it anytime so that your friends and family can see what you're doing.
You simply sign up to a microblogging site(e.g. Twitter) and you're off on your exciting new journey to the land of the future...
You may think that you won't have time to log in very frequently during the day onto your computer, but never fear.Twitter is also available on your Phone! So you really can update it wherever and whenever you want.
You may not realise it but you are probably using microblogging already. Facebook is a great example of this as at the head of your homepage, it says ' What are you doing right now?' which is what microblogging is all about.
This is one of the best features of facebook and is one of the many reasons I think that Microblogging will take over the world of blogs.
Because it is so similar to facebook, I don't think that there is going to be a huge surge of microbloggers on twitter as there was on such sites as blogger when blogging first became big,but don't get me wrong;Microblogging is the future....
Microblogging is the all new form of blogging in which you write short sentances (only 140 characters!) about what you're doing at any moment in time.You can update it anytime so that your friends and family can see what you're doing.
You simply sign up to a microblogging site(e.g. Twitter) and you're off on your exciting new journey to the land of the future...
You may think that you won't have time to log in very frequently during the day onto your computer, but never fear.Twitter is also available on your Phone! So you really can update it wherever and whenever you want.
You may not realise it but you are probably using microblogging already. Facebook is a great example of this as at the head of your homepage, it says ' What are you doing right now?' which is what microblogging is all about.
This is one of the best features of facebook and is one of the many reasons I think that Microblogging will take over the world of blogs.
Because it is so similar to facebook, I don't think that there is going to be a huge surge of microbloggers on twitter as there was on such sites as blogger when blogging first became big,but don't get me wrong;Microblogging is the future....
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