The presentation about the live streaming sites is blessing. CUA's cable service doesn't provide the channels I need to watch any sporting events. `i had heard of justin.tv before, but I had forgot about it and thankfully I have found out about it again. `The sites are really a golden ticket, they give viewers a vast field on which they could potentially watch anything they wish. `The ability to watch live concerts just blows my mind. However, like the cons of it, such as the Rutgers case and others. I remember the first news story I had heard like that was about a young adult who was a fan of a band, whose name escapes me, who killed himself online due to the bands lyrics. It's upsetting things such as this that add to the problems of innovations such as this.
`I was browsing the internet, check that, the web the earlier today and I found an interesting article that relates "hypertexting" amongst teenage adults to other dangerous activities. `When I first saw the headline to this website, I was unclear as to what "hypertexting" meant; according to the article, it refers to a person who sends over 120 text messages during the school day. The article goes on to say that people who fall into this category tend to experiment with cigarettes, drinking, and binge drinking. After about halfway through the article or so, I bgan to wonder if they would mention anything about texting and driving, surely they did. The author discusses that use of the technology in particular areas can absolutely cause problems (texting and driving), but consistent use of these mobile technologies may prove most fatal. `The same high schoolers were also surveyed on social networking site use. The same results were shown prevalent in this study as the cell phone use. I believe the relation between these two uses (SNS and cell phones) and social situations. However, I don't believe that that's all there is to it. I can't help, though, to believe that there must be some relation between these survey results and the regrettable outcomes that we discussed of the streaming sites.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
In regards to the cyber bullying presentation, I thought it brought up numerous interesting points, such as the fact that children today are acquiring cell phones at younger ages than before. I got my first cell phone when I was a freshman in high school and I know that my older brother and sister got their cell phone's when they were about to graduate from high school.
I don't believe their is any way for people to regulate cyber bullying. There's no way that people are going to be able to censor text messages or facebook messages based on content. I believe that cyberbullying is just something that we, as adults, are going to have to do our best to teach our children that it is the wrong thing to do.
On a rather random note, the commercials that were shown in regards to cyber bullying were quite brutal, in my opinion. The things the kids said were so incredibly painful that I couldn't help but laugh a little bit because I wasn't aware that kids that age said things that hurtful. Kids who still participate make fun of another child's family's economic status? The commercials reminded me of a Canadian PSA commercial that I had seen online a few years back, mind you that the link I just posted is quite graphic, even though it connects to a YouTube video. I post it as a comparison just to show the same "shock and awe" value that I got when I watched the cyber bullying commercials.
On another note, I found this article on CNN that says Facebook is able to tell when people are most likely to have a broken relationship. They conducted the search through key words in people's facebook status (which almost comes off as an almost poor way to conduct the research). The article claims that many relationships are broken off just before Valentine's Day, which is just so heartbreaking! The majority of relationships ending, hilariously, happens right at Spring Break.
It's quite insane how much we can learn about people through studies conducted by Facebook. Perhaps sociologists around the country should start looking into Facebook as a means to study human actions.
I don't believe their is any way for people to regulate cyber bullying. There's no way that people are going to be able to censor text messages or facebook messages based on content. I believe that cyberbullying is just something that we, as adults, are going to have to do our best to teach our children that it is the wrong thing to do.
On a rather random note, the commercials that were shown in regards to cyber bullying were quite brutal, in my opinion. The things the kids said were so incredibly painful that I couldn't help but laugh a little bit because I wasn't aware that kids that age said things that hurtful. Kids who still participate make fun of another child's family's economic status? The commercials reminded me of a Canadian PSA commercial that I had seen online a few years back, mind you that the link I just posted is quite graphic, even though it connects to a YouTube video. I post it as a comparison just to show the same "shock and awe" value that I got when I watched the cyber bullying commercials.
On another note, I found this article on CNN that says Facebook is able to tell when people are most likely to have a broken relationship. They conducted the search through key words in people's facebook status (which almost comes off as an almost poor way to conduct the research). The article claims that many relationships are broken off just before Valentine's Day, which is just so heartbreaking! The majority of relationships ending, hilariously, happens right at Spring Break.
It's quite insane how much we can learn about people through studies conducted by Facebook. Perhaps sociologists around the country should start looking into Facebook as a means to study human actions.
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