Facebook is a free social networking site which allows you to stay in touch with friends all over the world, or just to chat to your mates. Photos can be uploaded and it is a way to have a presence on the web. Your page is a digital identity.
Mark Zuckerberg founded facebook while he was a student at Harvard University. Website membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 175 million active users worldwide.
The large majority of my year has facebook. In the past it was different to have facebook. Now you are considered different not to have an account. Facebook is good fun and lets you do lots of things. It has combined msn, bebo and flickr. Msn is an instant messaging site, bebo lets you customize your homepage and flickr is adding and commenting on photos. Some would say that facebook is taking over peoples lives and becoming far too large.
There are many controversies over facebook and huge arguments have sprung up.
The first is about invasion of privacy. People put their personal details on facebook.I beleive that if you put information on Facebook, then you should have to accept the consequences of whatever happens to it. If you put information on the web then it can be manipulated so you should be careful.But a photo of you is tagged, it will appear on your site. This doesn't sound so bad as maybe you want the photo. But if it is a photo of you at a party the night before, then you want some of your friends to see it but not your close family or your boss.
Most people don't know how to avoid this but there is a way. You can choose who sees each photo or video and create friend groups. Some people have been fired because of photos on facebook and lives have been ruined. Most users do not know that there is a way. Follow the link below and all will be revealed.
ALL FACEBOOK USERS LOOK AT THIS LINK. IT IS REALLY USEFUL.
http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-privacy/
Saturday 21 February 2009
Thursday 12 February 2009
Answer for Axel
Answer to this question
This is for Hugh in my class, 4F. What kind of a profile picture is that on your blog?
My photo if u look closely is of an eagle with a fish in it's claws. I took this pic in africa on holiday and it is really cool. Your picture is of a really stupid looking bear but it is kind of funny.
This is for Hugh in my class, 4F. What kind of a profile picture is that on your blog?
My photo if u look closely is of an eagle with a fish in it's claws. I took this pic in africa on holiday and it is really cool. Your picture is of a really stupid looking bear but it is kind of funny.
Thursday 5 February 2009
Digital identity
Without knowing it, I have a digital identity online and offline in loads of different places. Some are just copies of one another but also contain very personal data about me that I might or might not want to be shown and be accessible all over the web.
At birth, I have a birth certificate with my parents, my birth would be recorded in the hospital system but also in the government system. The government hold data for everyone who was born, or lives in the UK and recently, some of this personal data was lost and there was a huge scandal about it as the government also lost the data for hundreds of prisoners. I then had my passport data recorded and I have my passport swiped and recorded every time I go on a flight and that is on several systems: the airport computers, the police and the microchip inside the passport. Every day, I am recorded on CCTV cameras as the police are constantly monitoring every thing on buses, tubes and in the streets. This is slightly worrying as you are constantly being watched and it seems like a '1984' situation, where everyone is being watched by 'The Thought police'. I am also being tracked on my Oyster card, so every journey I make can be monitored. All this information is being held about me can paint a vivid picture of me and what I do. My information is also willingly submitted to school and doctors as they each take a record of everything that I say in relevant areas.
I put myself on the web in several ways: this blog is a form of online digital identity to give me an online presence but also to let myself be found by others who want to; I have three email addresses and google mail allows access to many other stuff as there is a social network that no one realized about; I have a facebook, msn and google account, which are all social network services.
So all of this, online and offline, is my digital identity and much more information about me can be found on the web than I realized or wanted there to be.
This could cause problems such as identity fraud or people stalking you. Because there is so much information about me on the web, if someone got hold of this there could be severe consequences such as someone pretending to be me on a site such as twitter as there is a very real example of this here.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2008/dec/03/twitter-digitalmedia
At birth, I have a birth certificate with my parents, my birth would be recorded in the hospital system but also in the government system. The government hold data for everyone who was born, or lives in the UK and recently, some of this personal data was lost and there was a huge scandal about it as the government also lost the data for hundreds of prisoners. I then had my passport data recorded and I have my passport swiped and recorded every time I go on a flight and that is on several systems: the airport computers, the police and the microchip inside the passport. Every day, I am recorded on CCTV cameras as the police are constantly monitoring every thing on buses, tubes and in the streets. This is slightly worrying as you are constantly being watched and it seems like a '1984' situation, where everyone is being watched by 'The Thought police'. I am also being tracked on my Oyster card, so every journey I make can be monitored. All this information is being held about me can paint a vivid picture of me and what I do. My information is also willingly submitted to school and doctors as they each take a record of everything that I say in relevant areas.
I put myself on the web in several ways: this blog is a form of online digital identity to give me an online presence but also to let myself be found by others who want to; I have three email addresses and google mail allows access to many other stuff as there is a social network that no one realized about; I have a facebook, msn and google account, which are all social network services.
So all of this, online and offline, is my digital identity and much more information about me can be found on the web than I realized or wanted there to be.
This could cause problems such as identity fraud or people stalking you. Because there is so much information about me on the web, if someone got hold of this there could be severe consequences such as someone pretending to be me on a site such as twitter as there is a very real example of this here.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2008/dec/03/twitter-digitalmedia
Wednesday 4 February 2009
Microblogging
Microblogging is a form of blogging but it is much smaller ad much more mobile. There are several popular sites such as Twitter and Jaiku. It is almost the same as a blog but posts are always much shorter ( 140 characters maximum). These can be updated all the time and are designed to update people about everything that you are doing. Some people want to know exactly what you are doing and it allows you to become closer to people and find out more about them. They can also be updated from mobile phones or by text. As phone technologies are coming on faster and faster, more phones have internet and can easily access blogs and sites such as facebook, twitter and Jaiku. Twitter and jaiku are similar to each other but twitter is more popular and is the most used micro-blogging site on the internet. This could be because it is simple to use and is laid out easily but also it has many celebrity users such as Jonathan Ross and Stephen Fry and even President Obama. When I was investigating Twitter, at first it just seemed to me like a whole site devoted to facebook status updates, which in theory it is. But when I looked deeper, I found that it allows you much easier to follow and find out much more information about a person and their every day lives. On facebook, status updates are not essential and they often do not change for weeks, or at least that is what it is like with me.
This is an interesting, informative video, explaining Twitter in plain english.
Jaiku is very similar to twitter but invite only instead of open to anyone to follow anyone else and I think that there is more accessible personalization on twitter and it is much easier to use.
This is an interesting, informative video, explaining Twitter in plain english.
Jaiku is very similar to twitter but invite only instead of open to anyone to follow anyone else and I think that there is more accessible personalization on twitter and it is much easier to use.
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