Social Networking

Social networking in the corporate setting has its downturns as well as the positives. LinkedIn is a popular networking site where people of corporate companies can add each other and "link up". Facebook is a site where anyone in the world can "link up" and find personal information about the particular person. Sharing interests, hobbies, work, etc. are all positive things two people may share but the privacy issue arises. Sexual harassment and pictures you dont want to be seen are passed around and it causes a rift in work relationships as seen here (http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/681635). Hopefully in the future, people will learn to know when to separate professional and personal lives on the internet. It is a gateway to many intrusions and situations that a person would not want to be in.




http://baruchnewmedia.com/notes/n_socialnetworking.htm

Check out social networking sites

An ex-myspace user, I always found myspace to be more interesting in terms of profiling. I was always able to personalize my profile and add customized things such as music in the background, html backgrounds, surveys, information, etc. These types of things really taught me to be familiar with html and coding and at the same time get what I wanted from a site. Myspace is a site that where you can get connected to old friends, meet new friends, and connect with celebrities.
As a current facebook user, you can have old friends, new friends, and various connections but the customization part of it is gone. I miss being able to personalize a page so that others can be a part of me.

Blogs vs Wikis

Blogs are a place where anyone in the world can set up a topic and freely talk about it and share with the world. The last few years have been an increasing rise in blog use and places like PerezHilton, Mediatakeout, and Gawker are prime examples of that. Wiki's are a different in that they are a collaboration of information people can contribute. A wiki a company may have becomes helpful in gathering and managing their own knowledge, making it much easier for employees to access. As quoted, "a software application that allows groups of users to create, edit and comment on online documents—so that each team member could contribute and access up-to-date information on the project".

Today's world is so technology driven that anything new media provides is one step closer to gaining more knowledge. Stated above is how wikis are used in collaboration but blogs are different. Usually to contribute to a blog the person would need to add their comment, but they wouldn't have the same administrator rights as the blog owner.


cited:
"http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/26280
/celebrity_blogs_the_impact_of_new_media.html"


"http://www.cio.com/article/336818
/More_on_How_to_Build_Your_Own_Wikipedia"

I know we all felt like this at some point!

Old vs New

Old vs. New media is constantly evolving to bring us easier ways to do things from a tech standpoint. Books are being converted to eBooks, journalism is being converted to blogs, radio is being converted to podcasts, even art museums are being converted to museums on the web. People are always reinventing old media that even new media becomes old and we have to move on to a newer media.

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Social networking: better or worse than the real thing?

Was your life easier or harder? simpler or more complex? before these social networks came around. This site (http://reseller.co.nz/reseller.nsf/opin/4CEF3701008B4975CC25744D00820AE8) lists the top 10 social networking annoyances. One being "Multiple Social Network Syndrome", so what that is telling me is in this day and age not only are we suffering from regular syndromes like ADD and Multiple personality BUT we also have to add this MSNS syndrome. Social networks have taken over our lives and it seems like more and more people have resorted to alienating others in exchange for some online chit chat instead of the real thing. We can argue that this is a negative thing but we can also say it is positive in many ways. While at the same time these networks can increase our number of friends, they also can have deadly exposure.

What is New Media?

The new media is a huge phenomenon that's occurring all over the world. Wiki's, social networking sites, blogs, media communities, and even technology are part of the various technologies that make up this NEW MEDIA. The Internet is definitely important to new media, as quoted by Linda Friedman in "The new media technologies: overview.." she wrote, "many if not all new media technologies enable collaboration over the internet and that includes the wiki and emails." New media is replacing old media mostly in technology and the advancements it offers. We can see all around us how year after year stores come out with new toys and techies around the world go crazy. Newer ipods replace the old ones and new phone models replace the old ones.