CCT205-+Labs

CCT205 Labs Lab 8 march 10th

LAB 5 - February 11th

In the case of privacy, the popularized way of social networking and online blogs has totally brought forth the question of privacy amongst individuals pertaining to personal information, especially photos. The future of this in my opinion, as pessimistic as it is, is something we will just have to deal with negatively. People can post whatever they want and say whatever they want, and if it fits within the somewhat limited legal constraints about content on the web, we will not be able to fix this. If you join facebook, and put photos up, you are almost setting yourself up for certain breaches of privacy amongst who you want the content to be looked at, for it is the world wide web after all. The future of privacy will escalade into something that people will have to face with in terms of their identity, and the physical self will have to be more cared for and be cautioned about potential privacy infringements. If someone goes out to a party and does something completely ridiculous, in the past it may of just been a memory and topic of gossip amongst others, but now you may have to relieve the experience online with your face on the homepage of the dirty.

Privacy really does matter, but only for yourself. Our way of thinking now has become obsessed with the lives of others, and to obtain information is crucial for some. For others, these things have ruined their idea of chatting or connecting online with "peers" because others can easily and quickly retain information, and observance. In the end, privacy only really matters if it affects you or someone you care about, but for others, people will always turn a blind eye.

LAB 4 - February 4th

Turkle describes how technology has become such an important factor in our lives, that it has actually changed the way we live in our daily practices in society. Social networking is one major aspect of this new obsession with technology, and especially with our generation, where we are almost pressured in some way to be apart of this massive online community because it is new and "important" to our social connections with others. She points out that the way we connect to society is online, and we are "never alone" in the sense that we strive for the feedback and approval of others, even if it is through superficiality with posts on facebook, or twitter. Not only can people become sociable in real life, but our identity acquired through the web takes on a whole new way of communicating on its own. The virtual world allows us to "connect" with others, and it is when we are not connected to this popular way of communicating can we really feel out of place, or even alone.

LAB 1 I would consider Facebook to be revolutionary in the digital world. Although social networking has existed long before facebook, and it could be considered an evolutionary step to the recent craze of socializing online, it steps into a more revolutionary website in how it has defined and changed the idea of a social network. A revolution is a significant change with a mass amount of people hopping on to the bandwagon, and it is apparent that this website is something that has changed the social world and has a significant number of the world's population using it. Almost everyone I know has a facebook, and without it, people claim that they are "missing something." Facebook has proven to go beyond digital identity, and has surfaced our idea of socializing and projecting our individual image of ourselves. For example, almost everyone that owns an acount goes on it daily, and connects with hundreds of other people in ways of interests and basic communication from basic conversation to full-on arguments about a "tagged" photo. Facebook has become an obsession and a phenomena for the web, and with the increasing number of people joining, as well as its change into our social world, digitally and physically, it is definitely revolutionary.

The appeal and innovation of facebook lies in its content and user compatibility. The lives of others, or your "friends," are displayed daily in a non-stop newsfeed of pictures, conversations, events, interests, mutual friends, surveys ext. And the best part is that you can comment on absolutely everything or even show appreciation, or acknowledgment by a simple click of the "like" button. With all of these in mind, facebook has brought people together, from across the globe to socialize, and change the way we communicate with one another.