Zakiah Williams June 24, 2009 Blog # 3 Iran Election The Presidential Election in Iran has caused outrage in Iran, and all over the world. It was said that the votes were not accurate. They suggested that the votes were rigged in some way. This caused protest that ended in both a lot of arrests and some deaths have came out of this outrage. Usually cnn, local news, New York Times, etc., covers these current events. Usually the news won’t stop talking about current events or tragic stories. Some people feel that the media wasn’t covering the story enough. This outraged the public even more. They were already outraged over what happen with the election, and some people feel that is was not getting much attention. When something bad happens, and doesn’t get the attention that it should get, the change doesn’t come. That made people even more outraged. At times social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc., have bad reputations. People often think that people waste to much time on these networks. A lot of people, think that people can use there time a little better than this. Like for example Twitter, some feel that it is pointless to let people know what fast food place you went to earlier in the day. In this case it what the exact opposite. These same social networks that often get criticized for there uselessness, is actually being a good use to the cause. The New York Times and BBC have been helpful in keeping us informed. Some cable networks have been good with keeping us informed. Some people feel like we should not give these social networks to much credit. They won’t take the place of media and the news. Bloggs and utube, may not be considered a social network, but it helps to get current events, and to get peoples’ opinions on the current events. At times you can’t always rely on journalist, the media, and news reporters to spread the news. Sometimes the people in the action should spread the word. That is what is being discovered about these social networks. Some people feel that they need to get the everyday peoples’ point of view. That is where these social networks come into play. It was said that about one thousand tweets were tweeted from all over the world. With certain pages, there would be so many tweets, that you would have to refresh the screen to get the information. There were a lot of deaths over this protest. There was a young a woman that died, and it was on Facebook. It was said that a lot of people were re-tweeting things that were tweeted to news on the current events. They were trying to update them as soon as possible. Google has been used to translate languages between different countries. This also makes it easier to translate news all over the country. Now Google is becoming a good tool on translating. These social networks are bringing traditional news casting down. People are not going to be relying on the news as much, more popular that these networks get. This might change the people watch and spread the news. I got this information from Larvatus Prodeo and Vator News.

Zakiah Williams June 17, 2009 Internet Tech Facebook Facebook is a social network that allows people to put up profiles about themselves. It allows people to put up pictures and comments about themselves. People can update pictures, comments, and there status, as often as they want to. By status, people can post whether their single, married, looking, and or their sexual preference. This is to let people know whether they are looking or not. Facebook is the most popular social network. It has about 200 million users world wide. It was started by a college student who was a sophomore in Harvard University. This was in 2004. His name was Mark Zuckerberg. At first it was only accessible to Harvard college students, and then it was extended to other colleges and then high school. It turned into a multimillion dollar business. There was controversial issue over who actually started the company. Three other Harvard college students claimed that they came up with the idea for this social network. They claim that they had him help to code the program, and he stole it. I think that Facebook is changing the way people deal with each other socially. People use face book to find and reunite with each other. People use this social network to keep in touch with family, friends, old classmates etc. instead of people writing and calling each other, they will contact each other on facebook. People use this to keep people up dated on current events. Events such as weddings, birth announcements, and other news. People rely on this as a form of communication. I wouldn’t consider facebook was real time. You could have update as you want to. You can consider it real time. This social network doesn’t really reshape the job industry that much. I guess you could use this to alert people about meetings. There are negative things about this social network. People often get addicted to these sites. People tend to look at their pages all hours the night. This is a negative thing, because people are spending time on these pages, and taking time from important things.

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