...direct unwanted attention to the unsuspecting victim, pose as a person they are not or even steal their identity without their knowledge and this is a contemporary issue that affects the community. Should there be legislation to prescribe how Facebook is to protect their users by using affective privacy settings? Legislation should be enacted to prescribe the way privacy settings are to function on Facebook to ensure that users are safe from cyber bulling, harassment, assault and deception. Issues that have been raised over 12 months Over the past 12 months, there have been some re-occurring attacks of people who use online communities. A majority of them are associated with the popular Facebook. Many predators sign up for online communities looking for vulnerable people and design a profile claiming to be someone they are not. The case of Nona Belomesoff’s was the start of this issue. Authorities were asked to investigate the sudden disappearance of 18 year old Miss Belomesoff when she was reported missing in NSW in May 2010. The parents of Miss Belomesoff told authorities that “she was offered what she thought was a dream job,” (Mitternacht, M. & Wood, A. The Age, 2010). Authorities found that Miss Belomesoff’s was a Facebook user and had recently started chatting to a young...
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...on the Internet. One thing that you can count on is that nothing you do on the Internet will ever be private again. In fact, if you are obsessed with privacy then the last place you want to be is on the Internet. Most Americans have absolutely no idea how far Internet surveillance has advanced in the past few years. At this point, it would be hard to imagine any place less private than the Internet. Do not ever put anything on the Internet that you would not want the authorities or your employer to hold you accountable for. Basically, the Internet is creating a permanent dossier on each one of us, and we contribute to this process by freely posting gigantic volumes of information about ourselves on social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter. The Internet is the greatest tool for mass communication that the world has perhaps ever seen, and it gives average citizens the ability to communicate with each other like never before, but there is also a downside to using the Internet. Everything that we do on the Internet is being watched, monitored and recorded and there is no longer any such thing as Internet privacy. If you think that you still have any privacy on the Internet, then you are either ignorant of what is going on or you are being delusional. In the past, the National Counterterrorism Center could only retain information about you for 180 days if you did not have any links to terrorism. Well, that has now completely changed. Attorney General Eric Holder...
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...Are Cell phones dangerous? Tim Lewis ITT Technical Institute EN 1420 November 20, 2014 Mrs. Pultorak Cell phones are supposed to make our lives easier and more convenient. They help us stay in contact with friends, family, and even coworkers. They give us access to a lot of information without having to be sitting at a computer. People have been known to say that there phones are life savers but when used incorrectly they can be life takers and put us in danger. They can distract use while we are driving, expose us even more to identity theft, as well as broadcast our location to companies and other prying eyes, which is why I say that unless used responsibly cell phones are dangerous. So what exactly is distracted driving? According to the CDC (2014) “Distracted driving activities include things like using a cell phone, texting, and eating. Using in-vehicle technologies (such as navigation systems) can also be sources of distraction. While any of these distractions can endanger the driver and others, texting while driving is especially dangerous because it combines the three types of distractions which are visual, manual, and cognitive. ” Some would go so far as to say that there phones don’t hinder their ability to drive safely. They say “I have to answer that call because it might be an emergency.” While I do agree that it may be an emergency I don’t agree with driving 60+ mph while taking your eyes off the highway to find and answer your phone. In 2012, 3,328 people...
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...Dominance of Social Networking Introduction In early 2013, German courts have ruled the internet as ‘essential’ to the German citizens. It’s not only in Germany where we see that the internet has become huge part of our daily lives. All over the world we see that there are more and more people using the internet every day. The internet is a boon in so many ways, but like everything it also has a flip side. The internet provides us with facilities and information man couldn’t imagine of having within a few seconds a few decades ago. Today, we take it for granted. One of the boons of the internet is Social Networking websites. For many, social networking IS the internet. Ever since the innovation of social networking websites, more and more people are beginning to use the internet. These sites help us stay in touch with friends and family all over the world, and staying in touch is just the beginning. Social networking has changed the world, and is constantly doing so. There have been suggestions that social networking is only a “fad” and will soon go out of “fashion”. But is it really just a fad or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Social networking has facilitated so many processes like advertising, marketing; it increases the job opportunities, and spreads news faster than ever, it is used for recruitment by companies, for sharing pictures, experiences…almost everything. Social media is defined by the Merriam-Webster online dictionary as “a form of electronic...
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...to believe but Facebook is only 11 years old and it connects more people than any other company ever has. The number of people using Facebook is staggering. They claim more than 1.2 billion with more and more signing up everyday and this is without most of China. Unfortunately for folks in main land China the government continues to block Facebook and instead they are using knock off versions of Facebook. Two of the more popular Chinese versions called QQ and Renren. Facebook has changed the way we keep in touch. First the Internet connected the world and then Facebook has made the world smaller. People use it to stay in touch with loved ones and old friends but also use it to contact with new acquaintances. Some people say that nothing is “free” but for the most part the individual user pays nothing…at least for now. It has changed the way we share our lives with others and is a unique way in which people can express themselves. In addition to expression, it also changed the way people consume information. Facebook users get up-to-date information on friends but it has also become an outlet for news, politics, sports, references, and entertainment. Since the information on Facebook goes both ways privacy issues have arisen and it has changed the way we look at what’s private and what’s not. Facebook collects enormous amounts of data and several lawsuits have been brought against the company as a result of how they have elected to use that data. Facebook is rapidly becoming...
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...as times have changed employers have changed the way employees are managed and retained. In the age of all the new technology and how employers interact with employees and how employees interact with one another. Take Google and Facebook for example integration of working teams has become a large if not the main workplace culture. Both global companies offer a service worldwide, social networking and a search engine tied together with social networking has become genius for the founders and teams of both companies. It used to be 10 or 15 years ago the boss or the human resources manager placed and advertisement in the paper or online to recruit for a job opening, candidates would come in to the office, make a phone call, or fax in their resumes and applications. How times have changed; those days seem to be long gone. Present day recruiters and HR managers place adds on job boards and the internet through various networking and internet sites to reach the most qualified candidates. Google and Facebook are alike in many ways; both social networking capabilities but more importantly the employee relations and team building practices are what make them unique in today’s industries. Both industries have a common trend; “All of us working at Facebook have a common goal: Helping you connect and share with the people you care about. Hear from our leadership team about why we emphasize freedom and autonomy inside the...
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...Cyber bullying Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet and other related technologies to harm or harass other people, in a deliberate, repeated and hostile manner. Nearly 43% of all the youth have been bullied online. 1 in 4 has had it happen more than once, which tells us that we have to do something about the problem. If kids can’t have fun on the Internet without people are making fun of them – that’s a problem. Some kids might even bully other kids so they can avoid being bullied themselves. Everyone knows what bullying means and most have had experiences with it. Either they have been bullies themselves, they have been victims of bullying, or they known someone who has been bullied. With the Internet bullying can be taken to the next level. It is now much harder to avoid the bullies because they can reach you everywhere. The Internet has also given the bullies an extra distance to their victims, which makes them capable of increasing the severity of their threats and negative messages, making it even harder to be the victim, and that’s why more than 65% of the older students thinks that cyberbullying is a big problem, because they have experienced it themselves and can give some advices to the next generation. Another thing why this problem is so “popular” might be because of the young people are using their cell phones nonstop – and over 80% of the teens uses a cell phone regularly, making it the most common medium of cyberbullying. In article 1 several solutions...
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...11/10/13 Violence against Women – Essay | Articles | Eng H OME A B OU T SI TE CONTENT QU A LI TY GU I DELI NES P U B LI SH A RTI CLE CONTA CT U S SU GGEST U S Violence against Women – Essay AATISH PALEKAR ARTICLES Publish Your Articles is an interactive website that helps you to publish your own articles. Our mission is to provide a user-friendly interface for writers, journalist, bloggers and students for getting their works published so that others may enrich their knowledge by reading these articles. Before publishing your original articles on this site, please read the following pages: 1. Content Guidelines 2. TOS 3. Privacy Policy 4. Disclaimer 5. Copyright It is a universally recognized truism today that "an affluent society tends to grow into a violent". Gandhiji highlighted this truth long ago, when he pointed out that you cannot get American dollars without American vice. The truth of this statement is brought out by the conditions that prevail in India today. With the success of its five-year plans and the constructive efforts of the government, there is a marked increase of production and rise in per capital income. There is an all-round increase in affluence and prosperity and with this affluence there is also an increase in crime and violence. On the slightest pretext there are strikes and an upsurge of violence. Public property is recklessly destroyed and there is frequent arson and looting on a large-scale: terrorists have become more...
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...her cell phone and on the internet when she was at home. Apparently there was some romantic imbroglio over a boy that triggered a group of teenagers to target Amanda with relentless bullying. The young Romeo was 19 years old and apparently he was also involved with the ringleader of the bullies. The gang of bullies urged Amanda to kill herself on numerous occasions. The 19 year old male eventually broke up with Amanda, but the bullying did not cease. Faced with non-ending bullying and the loss of the boy, Amanda felt that she had no choice but to end her short life. In the days that followed Amanda’s death, students at her school posted the vilest messages on her Facebook page and continued their bullying even after she was dead. They expressed happiness over her decision to die and ridiculed her. Not everyone on Facebook was abominable and cruel. There were also many heartbroken messages from her friends and fellow students who recalled how she always wore skirts and heels at school and how much they would miss her smile and positive attitude. It seems that Amanda’s family and friends were not aware of the torture that she was under until her final days. Because there was no real program or way to resolve the bullying at...
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...small competitors with good products. This is the type of abuse we may be able to decrease without having to go through the government. The way to do it is to get the companies that are above pulling this sort of trick to pledge publicly not to. Then the ones that won't make such a pledge will be very conspicuous. Potential employees won't want to work for them. And investors, too, will be able to see that they're the sort of company that competes by litigation rather than by making good products. Here's the pledge: No first use of software patents against companies with less than 25 people. I've deliberately traded precision for brevity. The patent pledge is not legally binding. It's like Google's "Don't be evil." They don't define what evil is, but by publicly saying that, they're saying they're willing to...
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...In Hans Christian Anderson’s fairytale The Red Shoes he conjures up a deeply complex character that possesses both unsympathetic and benevolent qualities. Similar to other characters in Anderson’s work such as, The Match Girl and The Little Mermaid; the character of Karen evolves through the help of a physical transformation. Karen’s physical transformation helps change her from a vain and obsessive character to a person who is redemptive. I will display these characteristics by creating a Facebook page using modern culture and the current media to help analyze the evolution of Karen. In the beginning of the story although Karen is an orphan girl her one great possession is her vanity. In the story it is conveyed that many people thought that Karen was pretty “… but the looking glass said to her:” You are more than pretty, you are lovely” (241). This passage conjured up a similar image of the Evil Queen of Snow White and her vain attempts to seek validation from the mirror. On Karen’s Facebook page images of mirrors and many self portraits are displayed through out to represent her sense of vanity. On her playlist the song Your So Vain by Carly Simon is listed on her favorites. The song is a perfect representation of this character because the lyrics “You walked into the party. Like you were walking onto a yacht”( Simon ). In comparison Karen walks into her Confirmation with her red shoes her thoughts are filled with looks and stares that she gets from the congregation. Her favorite...
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...Captain Beatty responded to censorship by stating, “"Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog lovers, the cat lovers, doctors, lawyers,....Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters. They did”(Bradbury 55). He means that people do not like getting their feelings hurt, and the solution is to destroy anything that could make political opinions differ. The struggle between morals and First Amendment rights is making the censorship issue more complicated. Sacrifice is not necessary to keep personal morals and freedom of speech and the press. In the court case Counts v. Cedarville School District, 295 F.Supp.2d 996 (W.D. Ark. 2003), a school restricted access to Harry Potter because it dealt with witchcraft and disrespect for authority. At first glance, censoring a children’s book may seem harmless, but the government is disconnecting people from information. Fahrenheit 451 shows that people can lead to extreme ignorance like the character, Mildred, has....
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...21st century, Facebook. Trust is a good trait to have in some situations, but it can also cause bad things to happen. Many characters in the movie and the play are affected by the trust that they have in others. Although Macbeth and The Social Network have different outcomes, but the idea of being trusting is demonstrated as a negative trait through both productions. People should be more cautious of whom to trust. In both the film and the play,...
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...are modern electronics communications systems, we have no way for them to be sure that they will be resilient and will hold are messaged for a long time. To enumerate on this it is simply a fact that electronics cannot last forever no matter how much we hope they will. they simply cannot last the test of time. Social media and electronic communications it is important to realize that it is simply not sustainable and we will need to resort to the dying art of writing letters and writing in cursive o other styles of writing. In the same manner that social media has had a positive impact it likewise had a negative impact. One of the ways it has had a negative impact is that it has allowed people who have evil intent and have ill intent to go through a person Facebook page. And to gather information to the point that they are able to steal someone identity, and to compromise there accounts, simply due to the fact that we are lazy and we post willy nilly without regards to are security online, and in the same manner we do not filter and control what we post. Not only has social media had a positive impact of the world by allowing the rapid spread od news, for example at during the French Paris attacks, the residents of Paris where able to...
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...suppress small competitors with good products. This is the type of abuse we may be able to decrease without having to go through the government. The way to do it is to get the companies that are above pulling this sort of trick to pledge publicly not to. Then the ones that won't make such a pledge will be very conspicuous. Potential employees won't want to work for them. And investors, too, will be able to see that they're the sort of company that competes by litigation rather than by making good products. Here's the pledge: No first use of software patents against companies with less than 25 people. I've deliberately traded precision for brevity. The patent pledge is not legally binding. It's like Google's "Don't be evil." They don't define what evil is, but by publicly saying that, they're saying they're...
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