Criteria D- solutions to problems arising from the issue
Privacy is an important issue with social networking. While using 'Facebook.com', people can see what one person has been doing by checking out the 'News Feeds' and the 'Mini Feeds' section on the website. Before there was an option that would enable you to stop people from seeing what you have been doing; to keep it private, however now there is no such option.
A way to solve any privacy issue for a social network website other than 'Facebook.com' is by having an option when someone is making their profile, or even having facebook, where they can go back and edit their profile for them to keep their profile as a private one so that other than their friends can see what is going on with their profile. This would help the private issue, and the website would be more reliable.
However this could have been asked before for the Facebook people to do, because there is always a way for someone to see someone else's profile; they would need to regulate it more.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Criteria C
Criteria C-
Social networking can have many positive impacts on the society and negative impacts.
A positive impact on the society when using social networking is that people can get to know each other through facebook, myspace, HI5 and more. They can make long time friendships. They can also can find their old friends that they have not talked to for a long time Kurt Soller wrote that he kept adding people on his facebook from the university he was going attend at, and when he went after finishing high school, he met all those people that he added. These social networking websites help people interact socially (Soller, 2007).
A negative impact that social networking can impact on the society is that one of the major problems to do with social networking is the things that people post on these websites. Many problems have occurred where people abuse these website and post things that are not meant to be on there. For example where a student intended to get a guard fired, and he posted ideas on Facebook.com where he said that the guard was ' antagonizing students'. The student got expelled. People post hurtful things that can affect others and change their reputation (stone, 2006).
Another negative issue that can affect the society through social networking is a privacy issue. 'Mini feeds' and 'News Feed', these features allow to show users what their friends have been up to, such as adding pictures, items or making comments and much more. These items show other people's privacy, before these feeds would able to prevent people from seeing this information but now there is no option to do so (The Rooster, 2006).
Social networking can have many positive impacts on the society and negative impacts.
A positive impact on the society when using social networking is that people can get to know each other through facebook, myspace, HI5 and more. They can make long time friendships. They can also can find their old friends that they have not talked to for a long time Kurt Soller wrote that he kept adding people on his facebook from the university he was going attend at, and when he went after finishing high school, he met all those people that he added. These social networking websites help people interact socially (Soller, 2007).
A negative impact that social networking can impact on the society is that one of the major problems to do with social networking is the things that people post on these websites. Many problems have occurred where people abuse these website and post things that are not meant to be on there. For example where a student intended to get a guard fired, and he posted ideas on Facebook.com where he said that the guard was ' antagonizing students'. The student got expelled. People post hurtful things that can affect others and change their reputation (stone, 2006).
Another negative issue that can affect the society through social networking is a privacy issue. 'Mini feeds' and 'News Feed', these features allow to show users what their friends have been up to, such as adding pictures, items or making comments and much more. These items show other people's privacy, before these feeds would able to prevent people from seeing this information but now there is no option to do so (The Rooster, 2006).
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
B- background of IT
B- Background of IT system
Servers, browsers, databases are 3 components of the internet. Server computers are devices designed to run an application or applications, often for extended periods of time with minimal human direction. Examples of servers include web servers, e-mail servers, and file servers. A browser is a software application used to locate and display web pages. The two most popular browsers are Netscape Navigator, and Microsoft internet. Data bases are used to as a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system so that a computer program or person using a query language can consult it to answer queries. An example of this is facebook(see diagram 2). They keep the information for facebook is that they used databases, server, and browsers.
Three technological developments that led to the internet are that the internet speed keeps improving. Over the past few years, the amount of information available on the internet has increased enormously and there has been a major demand for high-speed internet. Another development is that now people are being able to exchange audio and video communication other than people having to type everything. Now MSN messenger allows people to have video and audio conversations, where they are able to see each other and communicate, where as before they were only able to chat, or see each other (see in diagram 1). Another technological development is the availability of internet is now world wide. A while back, internet was not available everywhere, and there are still some places that internet is not available in, however now there is an increase of demand for the internet, and now everyone around the world can accesses it.
Three technological trends for the future are that the speed will be increasing, because there will be a higher demand for internet speed. Then movies could be available online, legally. You would also be able to communicate online better, by calling (telephone-like communication).
Servers, browsers, databases are 3 components of the internet. Server computers are devices designed to run an application or applications, often for extended periods of time with minimal human direction. Examples of servers include web servers, e-mail servers, and file servers. A browser is a software application used to locate and display web pages. The two most popular browsers are Netscape Navigator, and Microsoft internet. Data bases are used to as a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system so that a computer program or person using a query language can consult it to answer queries. An example of this is facebook(see diagram 2). They keep the information for facebook is that they used databases, server, and browsers.
Three technological developments that led to the internet are that the internet speed keeps improving. Over the past few years, the amount of information available on the internet has increased enormously and there has been a major demand for high-speed internet. Another development is that now people are being able to exchange audio and video communication other than people having to type everything. Now MSN messenger allows people to have video and audio conversations, where they are able to see each other and communicate, where as before they were only able to chat, or see each other (see in diagram 1). Another technological development is the availability of internet is now world wide. A while back, internet was not available everywhere, and there are still some places that internet is not available in, however now there is an increase of demand for the internet, and now everyone around the world can accesses it.
Three technological trends for the future are that the speed will be increasing, because there will be a higher demand for internet speed. Then movies could be available online, legally. You would also be able to communicate online better, by calling (telephone-like communication).
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Criteria A
A
This portfolio addresses the issue of social networking. Social Network sites like myspace, facebook, and much more have captivated millions of users of the internet across the world. An example of this issue in society is When facebook opens to the public and how people with facebook accounts can view other people‘s accounts which would invade their privacy on the net.(“Facebook Opens to Public”,2007).
This issue would have many limitations. The IT system involved with this issue is the internet with the use of a browser. This IT system is important to society in many different ways. For Example, people that use the internet use it do work, to make travel arrangements, and to communicate with others on the net and many other things.
Society is affected is by this IT in positive and negative ways. A positive social or ethical effect related to the IT system is that some people will be able to observe other people’s profiles and private items online. The future direction of people in society will be determined by the choices made about this issue for example, is that facebook could make some regulations to stop this issue from occurring.
Facebook will continue growing in social networking, however if facebook continues to grow, it will need to grow in a positive way, and the way that it can become like that is that it will need to set some restrictions or regulations for it to become a successful and a complete social network.
This portfolio addresses the issue of social networking. Social Network sites like myspace, facebook, and much more have captivated millions of users of the internet across the world. An example of this issue in society is When facebook opens to the public and how people with facebook accounts can view other people‘s accounts which would invade their privacy on the net.(“Facebook Opens to Public”,2007).
This issue would have many limitations. The IT system involved with this issue is the internet with the use of a browser. This IT system is important to society in many different ways. For Example, people that use the internet use it do work, to make travel arrangements, and to communicate with others on the net and many other things.
Society is affected is by this IT in positive and negative ways. A positive social or ethical effect related to the IT system is that some people will be able to observe other people’s profiles and private items online. The future direction of people in society will be determined by the choices made about this issue for example, is that facebook could make some regulations to stop this issue from occurring.
Facebook will continue growing in social networking, however if facebook continues to grow, it will need to grow in a positive way, and the way that it can become like that is that it will need to set some restrictions or regulations for it to become a successful and a complete social network.
Monday, September 17, 2007
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