People are always wondering how their page got hacked or how their numbers are being obtained by random people. Well the answer is simple. So many people do not know how to change their privacy settings.
One of the many important privacy settings that some users do not know much about is with their contact information. Many users are unaware of their numbers, screen names, emails, and home addresses being displayed on their Facebook page. This is very dangerous because it allows strangers to access a users private information. Random people are contacting users and they will never guess that Facebook is how they obtained that information. To change this setting is very simple, but many forget to do it. By simply editing your contact information located in your "info" section can provide Facebook users with more safety.
Another thing many users have a limited knowledge on is their news feed. An average person thinks that their news feed can only show all of their friends on Facebook, and all of their friends have access to what you write no matter what. This is not true. There is a "friends list" feature that you can make different groups based on your preferences. After applying several people to one group, you can either change your settings so that only those members can see what you wrote, or, vise versa, you can change your settings so that you only see the news feeds of those people you added to the group.
There are also many users that have an issue with tagging. Some people may sign off Facebook for a few hours and come back to see themselves tagged in disturbing photos and videos. They don't want their family members (the ones who are their friends on Facebook) to see these images of course, but they had no idea this was being posted. For example, Ashley may have gone out one night and got "chocolate wasted." Some of her friends decided that it would be funny to take pictures of her dancing on top of tables, and then throwing up. After they left the party, Ashley of course goes to sleep, but her friends decide to put these pictures on Facebook immediately. Ashley has no idea about this until she wakes up hours later to see phone calls and messages from family members who are appalled by her behavior. The quickest solution to not allow your Facebook friends to see this, is to change your tagged settings. You have the ability to block your tagged items from anyone and everyone. This comes in handy because, although you can't remove someone else's pictures, you can hide them from appearing on your page. This feature also works with photo albums. You can easily customize who does/doesn't see certain albums.
Monday, April 18, 2011
WOOPSHHHHHH!!!
I kinda didn't keep track of blog assignments! I was looking at the archived schedule and it said we had a blog post due March 24... well I didnt do it then, so I am going to do it now. :)
(MC please forgive me for my stupid mistake and forgetfulness)
Link: http://mindfull.spc.org/vaughan/Bell_2007_JMH.pdf
A person who opposed my argument, Facebook really is an addiction, is psychiatrist Vaughan Bell. She says that “Internet addiction researchers conceive of the Internet as if it were a set of activities when, in fact, it’s a medium for communication.” She believes addiction can only occur in substances and activities, not mediums. She puts Internet addiction in the same category as “reading books, going for walks, chatting to friends and any other enjoyable activity.” These activities may be compulsive but does not make them an addiction. Psychologists have gone into more research about Internet and Facebook addiction and came to the conclusion that a person can really become addicted to the Internet, in my case, Facebook. They titled it the Facebook Addiction disorder.The basic summary of an addiction is one's desire and crave for a substance or behavior.If a person is constantly having the urge to be on Facebook, then it is considered an addiction.
(MC please forgive me for my stupid mistake and forgetfulness)
Link: http://mindfull.spc.org/vaughan/Bell_2007_JMH.pdf
A person who opposed my argument, Facebook really is an addiction, is psychiatrist Vaughan Bell. She says that “Internet addiction researchers conceive of the Internet as if it were a set of activities when, in fact, it’s a medium for communication.” She believes addiction can only occur in substances and activities, not mediums. She puts Internet addiction in the same category as “reading books, going for walks, chatting to friends and any other enjoyable activity.” These activities may be compulsive but does not make them an addiction. Psychologists have gone into more research about Internet and Facebook addiction and came to the conclusion that a person can really become addicted to the Internet, in my case, Facebook. They titled it the Facebook Addiction disorder.The basic summary of an addiction is one's desire and crave for a substance or behavior.If a person is constantly having the urge to be on Facebook, then it is considered an addiction.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Facebook on Society
I know I already wrote a little bit about this topic when I was brainstorming for my first paper, but there is more I want to say. Facebook has a lot of positive and negative effects on our society.
Pro’s:
-Facebook is a new form of communication
-Connect family and friends
-Helps anti-social people communicate
-Some people express themselves better when writing
-Other businesses add features
-Other businesses are advertised
-You can meet new people
-You can keep up to date with friends
-You can play games
-There are always new applications
Con’s
-Lower social skills
-Allows strangers creep on your page
-You can misunderstand what a person is trying to say (writing style)
-There is a lot of gossip and drama spreading
-It’s a huge distraction
-Intrusive on personal property
-Friends are not always friends
-There are useless advertisements
-Easy to lie and deceive (fake pages, lying is easier when it has to be written)
-Dangerous (sexual harassment, stalkers)
-Youth encouragement (Facebook is open to all ages, little kids may see older people doing things and they start to think it is ok to do the same at their age)
Just some random things to think about.
Pro’s:
-Facebook is a new form of communication
-Connect family and friends
-Helps anti-social people communicate
-Some people express themselves better when writing
-Other businesses add features
-Other businesses are advertised
-You can meet new people
-You can keep up to date with friends
-You can play games
-There are always new applications
Con’s
-Lower social skills
-Allows strangers creep on your page
-You can misunderstand what a person is trying to say (writing style)
-There is a lot of gossip and drama spreading
-It’s a huge distraction
-Intrusive on personal property
-Friends are not always friends
-There are useless advertisements
-Easy to lie and deceive (fake pages, lying is easier when it has to be written)
-Dangerous (sexual harassment, stalkers)
-Youth encouragement (Facebook is open to all ages, little kids may see older people doing things and they start to think it is ok to do the same at their age)
Just some random things to think about.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Facebook's Purpose
What is the purpose of Facebook?
The original purpose of Facebook was to connect users with classmates. Zuckerberg only let college students from Harvard sign up. They stayed in contact with each other, mostly for school related things. In time, Zuckerberg allowed all people to sign up and connect. Facebook spread throughout many countries. When that happened, the new purpose was to connect users from all around the world. It joined many lost family members and friends.
Today, Facebook has so many new applications and games. Instead of going on to socialize, people go on to be entertained. There are over 900 million activities, including groups, games and applications, on Facebook. This causes Facebook to be used way too often. People are beginning to use Facebook for numerous hours a day. This is very unhealthy because not only does it decrease a person's communication skills by talking to people they can talk to person everyday, but it causes users to become addicted and stay on for hours.
Facebook should only be used for communicating. If a person wants to play games and mess with applications they can easily sign on to a different website. -->> In my opinion at least
The original purpose of Facebook was to connect users with classmates. Zuckerberg only let college students from Harvard sign up. They stayed in contact with each other, mostly for school related things. In time, Zuckerberg allowed all people to sign up and connect. Facebook spread throughout many countries. When that happened, the new purpose was to connect users from all around the world. It joined many lost family members and friends.
Today, Facebook has so many new applications and games. Instead of going on to socialize, people go on to be entertained. There are over 900 million activities, including groups, games and applications, on Facebook. This causes Facebook to be used way too often. People are beginning to use Facebook for numerous hours a day. This is very unhealthy because not only does it decrease a person's communication skills by talking to people they can talk to person everyday, but it causes users to become addicted and stay on for hours.
Facebook should only be used for communicating. If a person wants to play games and mess with applications they can easily sign on to a different website. -->> In my opinion at least
Monday, April 11, 2011
Is good food too much to ask for?
I really wish our cafeteria had better food. I feel like they are trying to starve me to death! I know I am a picky eater and all, but a little more options would be nice. The only good food they have is unhealthy and greasy. I feel like they don't even try. Some of the foods they mess up on are very hard to not make correct.
One day I was sitting in the cafe for lunch during admitted students day. I overheard one of the leaders telling the high school students that the food is always delicious. I was so shocked! They purposely make the food perfect when other students are here but once they leave its back to he same ol stuff.
I also feel like we should have a quick food place open 24 hours for those students who do not have cars. There are so many nights that I get hungry and don't feel like moving my car from the deck.
IT SUCKS!!!
One day I was sitting in the cafe for lunch during admitted students day. I overheard one of the leaders telling the high school students that the food is always delicious. I was so shocked! They purposely make the food perfect when other students are here but once they leave its back to he same ol stuff.
I also feel like we should have a quick food place open 24 hours for those students who do not have cars. There are so many nights that I get hungry and don't feel like moving my car from the deck.
IT SUCKS!!!
Thursday, April 7, 2011
NEW NEW NEW NEW &+ NEW!!!
Mark Zuckerberg is always updating Facebook. He is very smart in doing this because people are obsessed with the new. Zuckerberg know's how to keep previous users attached and pull in new users.
Statuses:
Within the last couple years the status box has changed from “Username is…” to “What’s on your mind?” Zuckerberg realized that people kind of drifted away from continuing the sentence using "Username is..." People had too much on their mind that they wanted to talk about. When he realized that change was working effectively, he added the tag feature, where you can tag other friends profile link in your status, and he made it possible to add pictures, videos and links, making the communication better.
Comments:
When Facebook was first created, a user couldn't post more than 500 characters. Mark Zuckerberg realized that comments started to have more meaning behind what users tried to squeeze in the box. Users who had long and thorough thoughts, had to post several separate comments. He solved this problem by taking away the amount of characters you can write. There was also times where users wrote short and blunt messages. They felt too lazy to write sentences or complete thoughts on simple statuses. He solved this by adding the button “like” feature, which allowed you to like a picture, status, or comment.
He also added the new enter button feature. Instead of clicking the "post" comment button, you can now press enter on your keyboard when you are done typing. Zuckerberg also decreased the amount of time one would waste waiting to see new comments. Instead of constantly refreshing notifications, comments automatically pop up within seconds.
Applications:
Then, people started to post less comments and statuses, and spend less time on Facebook. Zuckerberg then made it possible for other businesses to add applications and games. Now there are millions of things to do on Facebook. This not only helps Facebook expand and constantly be used, but it helps businesses expand and make more money.
The creation of new applications, games and other features causes Facebook to never get old.
Just how Parker from The Facebook Effect said, we go into a “trance” and “just keep clicking and clicking and clicking form profile to profile, viewing the data.” All the new features and updates make it possible for users to do more things within the hours they spend on Facebook.
Statuses:
Within the last couple years the status box has changed from “Username is…” to “What’s on your mind?” Zuckerberg realized that people kind of drifted away from continuing the sentence using "Username is..." People had too much on their mind that they wanted to talk about. When he realized that change was working effectively, he added the tag feature, where you can tag other friends profile link in your status, and he made it possible to add pictures, videos and links, making the communication better.
Comments:
When Facebook was first created, a user couldn't post more than 500 characters. Mark Zuckerberg realized that comments started to have more meaning behind what users tried to squeeze in the box. Users who had long and thorough thoughts, had to post several separate comments. He solved this problem by taking away the amount of characters you can write. There was also times where users wrote short and blunt messages. They felt too lazy to write sentences or complete thoughts on simple statuses. He solved this by adding the button “like” feature, which allowed you to like a picture, status, or comment.
He also added the new enter button feature. Instead of clicking the "post" comment button, you can now press enter on your keyboard when you are done typing. Zuckerberg also decreased the amount of time one would waste waiting to see new comments. Instead of constantly refreshing notifications, comments automatically pop up within seconds.
Applications:
Then, people started to post less comments and statuses, and spend less time on Facebook. Zuckerberg then made it possible for other businesses to add applications and games. Now there are millions of things to do on Facebook. This not only helps Facebook expand and constantly be used, but it helps businesses expand and make more money.
The creation of new applications, games and other features causes Facebook to never get old.
Just how Parker from The Facebook Effect said, we go into a “trance” and “just keep clicking and clicking and clicking form profile to profile, viewing the data.” All the new features and updates make it possible for users to do more things within the hours they spend on Facebook.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Dislike button
Don't you wish there was a dislike button? People post so many stupid and pointless things on Facebook. Since we can't remove the comments for them, I feel that we should at least have the right to dislike it. It doesnt even have to be for serious reasons all the time. It could be stuff like "Rainy day in Charlotte" and people can click the dislike button. Although I feel some people may get upset that people are disliking their pictures and comments, its only Facebook. Getting mad over Facebook is just stupid. If a person writes negative things then they should expect to get disliked. If you are afraid of having something disliked just monitor what you post. If you can express how you feel, then why can't we.
DISLIKEEEEEE!!!!!
DISLIKEEEEEE!!!!!
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