Video assessment

http://www.commoncraft.com/store-item/Twitter

Twitter in Plain English

I would definitely site this video as my source for this project. After viewing the "about us" section of the website one is able to see that the two people who work on this site are legitimate. They have produced videos for many larger companies like intel, microsoft, ford, google and other companies. It seems they make many informational videos on many subjects. One can't help but trust a site that is trusted by large and well known corporations. The information provided is extremely useful. It breaks down the essence of the site, Twitter. It explains why people use the site and how people use the site. It also provides insight as to how the sight affects peoples relalionships with people they follow and who follow them, by allowing each other to get to know one another through the posts.

research questions

Users of social networking sites give up some of their privacy by posting their information and descriptions of their lives on these sites.

• what are the downfalls of social networking
• who can see your posted information
• how private is it really
• can people still access your site even after being blocked
• what are some public public privacy issues that twitter or facebook has faced
• why am i not using question marks?
• how are sites protecting its users
• how are sites giving users more privacy options
• what are some of these privacy options
• can the government access your private information
• .........uhhhhh
  

Privacy and Social networking thesis

Users of social networking sites give up some of their privacy by posting their information and descriptions of their lives on these sites.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

http://epic.org/privacy/socialnet/default.html

wikipedia, twitter assesment

The wikipedia entry on twitter appears to be rather accurate. On the discussion boards, when ever an issue about the posted information is raised, the issue is dealt with link to evidence as to why the information previously posted is incorrect. The information posted is trustworthy and i would not hesitate to use it in a report.

Some of the information that is useful for the upcoming report is found in the sections of the wiki, 2.1: Privacy and security, 4: Prominent Users, and 5: Usage. In these sections information is given as to where Twitter had holes in its "tweets" security. In the other sections it refers to as who and how twitter services are used. Not to mention the description included in the first paragraph, which is detailed and explains exactly what twitter is

Twitter assesment

The social networking site twitter makes me picture someone twitching because they haven't posted on their blog for a week. The site itself appears to be very simple. Twitter is based off of micro-blogging which is basically short blogs limited to 140 characters. Unlike other social networking sites such as myspace and facebook, twitter's profile page is very simple, it consists of a picture of ones choosing, a screen-name, and any blogs you have posted. Myspace and facebook, allow you to put all of ones personal information on their profile pages and at sometimes even seem "stalker friendly" by updating on ones friends actions through out the day. The site also offers topics to blog about such as recent movies that are coming out and even an "Iloveyou" topic. The people who use it seem to be the same type of people who use other sites like facebook and myspace and seem to also have accounts on the previously mentioned sites. Many people here just post up on blog updates on how their day is going or to ask questions about random topics they need help with and of course to also keep in touch with frineds.Like mentioned before twitter is more private than other sites. Most people only have a name, location, a short bio, and a link to other websites. People can be more reserved and decide to not post these items about themselves and can also limit how much information about themselves they share by being able to remove previous posts. The site itself is useful to simply update on the status of your day and see how the day of people who one follows is going.It is a place to keep in touch with in a much simpler way than other sites. By limiting the blogs to 140 characters people have to decide what bits of information will be useful to their followers and to make themselves sound interesting.

Twitter is a social networking site that allows its users to update their daily "going's on" and keep in touch with others. Users are allowed to chose whom they will follow and who will follow them. It appears that this site is a lot more private towards the information given about the users of this service. Twitter can also be updated through mobile phones so that when something you simply must tell everyone about immediately happens you can.

assessment of technology articles

Advances in Medical Technology: The Flip Side
by Jan Pots pg787-789
main ideas of article

The main ideas of this article are pretty much that although drugs have many good uses, such as curing illnesses or simply removing pain, they may cause more health complications.

The idea behind this article states that the good that new drugs and new advances in medicine are making may help us feel better now, but in the long run may actually cause more problems with the side effects the have.

... this reminds me of all of the drug commercials that are on T.V. They say they cure certain illnesses, but then in one breath towards the end of the commercial state all of the side effects that the drugs have. So one has to weigh the pros and cons of taking a drug, cure my migraine...or possibly have a heart attack? o_O

.....

assessing and evaluating

Not summarizing... causes you to lose your opinion
Critical Voice- opinion

avoid emotional reactions; remove all I believe, i think, etc. it is your blog you should not need to restate that

Writing without, I believe and such, makes your writing more confident

question the source, use details to explain why it is a valid or authoritative source

why are things good or bad