Facebook: As risky as riding a school bus?

I found an article that states Facebook is not what we should fear but our ignorance. Children can be 'hurt riding a school bus or watching tv and being influenced by movies.' Keeping the internet from children will not solve the problem because they'll always find ways around it. According to the article, the best solution is to raise awareness on the issue rather than shut it down. They even goes as far as working Facebook into students curriculum. I agree that awareness is better than cutting of the rights of young adults to use Facebook. However it is neglecting the idea the risks of a child being on Facebook, in comparison, increases the child on a school buses chances to wreck.
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=16&hid=107&sid=5af7846b-9c62-4fb0-b83d-99539d577f14%40sessionmgr114&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=n5h&AN=Q4K022828859310
Linda, Ockwell-Jenner. "IGNORANCE, NOT FACEBOOK, IS THE REAL ENEMY." Record, The (Kitchener/Cambridge/Waterloo, ON) n.d.: Newspaper Source Plus. EBSCO. Web. 24 Mar. 2011.

A Tragic Comedy?!

Aflac fired Gilbert Gottfried(the voiceover for the Aflac duck)for making fun of the recent Japanese tragedy on his Twitter page. He posts ten rude jokes, a few examples are "I just split up with my girlfriend, but like the Japanese say, 'There'll be another one floating by any minute now.'"
"Japan called me. They said 'maybe those jokes are a hit in the US, but over here, they're all sinking.'""What do the Japanese have in common with @howardstern? They're both radio active."
"Japan is really advanced. They don't go to the beach. The beach comes to them." 75% of Aflacs customers are in Japan so it is no shocker the end result would be his release from the company. I find this so important because it proves my point that not even older adults can handle the responsibilities & maturity that come along with social sites that publish one's thoughts. The article I found information was http://www.businessinsider.com/gilbert-goffried-fired-afl-2011-3.

Great Source!!!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/view/main.html

I found a PBS FRONTLINE special. It's a wonderful source for anyone's paper. It gives examples of kids all ages turning to the internet for comfort. Creating false identities and turning to others in obscene chat sites.

I hope this works..?!

This interested me because Facebook's requirement user age is thirteen years old but have no true way of knowing if thats correct. A kid of any age can access Facebook if they have the knowledge on how to create one. Adults hardly grasp the concept that what they post could possibly have consequence later so young children cannot be aware or responsible of how 'public' they have made their lives till they are old enough to be held accountable. Facebook has become not only a social network but an informant and a regulator of the economy. How young is too young to receive and process this information? Why does it matter?

Are We Too Obsessed With Facebook? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Are We Too Obsessed With Facebook? [INFOGRAPHIC]

This has nothing to do with topic proposals but I really liked the statistics.

Is there a point to Facebook Ads?

The ad Buffalo Wild Wings is always up on my wall, Bieber Backstage, and coursesmart.com a site for college text books. I find these pointless but I think in some ways they could possibly be helpful or effective. It just depends, for example i would like to visit coursesmart.com but I have absolutely no desire to listen or watch anything to do with Justin Bieber. The ad for buffalo wild wings are funny because it is a picture of a hot wing and labeled 'buffalo wild wings'. I feel like these ads intentions were to make us more socially tied to one another but failed because noone knows they're advertising legitimate things.

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Movie Review on The Social Network

Near the end of David Fincher's movie about Facebook, a young attorney tells CEO Mark Zuckerberg: "You're not an asshole, Mark. You're just trying so hard to be one." It's something of an apology for a movie that makes Zuckerberg appear every bit the asshole.

Early in the movie, Zuckerberg's girlfriend dumps him, saying: "You're going to be successful and rich. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a tech geek. I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole." Her comment and the one later bookends the movie. But there's something about the early asshole characterization that doesn't fit. The movie opens with Zuckerberg talking to the girlfriend (Erica Albright, played by Rooney Mara), and he comes off every bit the stereotypical over-intellectual, socially inept geek. He speaks his mind, to a fault.

The couple's conversation, which takes place in Boston late 2003, is one of the best opening sequences I've seen in film for years. The clipped dialogue, how Zuckerberg multitasks between topics, is mesmerizing. Albright is talking topic B, while Zuckerberg is answering topic A. He meanders lots. The scene also sets the tone for actor Jesse Eisenberg's portrayal of Facebook's cofounder. It's a simply, brilliant Academy Award-worthy performance.

Same can be said for the movie, which absolutely deserves some Oscar consideration. "The Social Network" isn't just a film of the moment -- that is cinema du jour -- but a tight, riveting drama that makes two hours blip by, kind of like the time spent on Facebook. I say that knowing the basic plot beforehand. I'm a long-time technology journalist after all. I'm familiar with the backstory about Facebook's founding, the intellectual property disputes and lawsuit settlements -- and still the movie captured my attention. Director Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin tell a good story. The dialogue is so exceptional, I now regret having never watched an episode of the TV show "The West Wing," on which Sorkin worked.

I pined for my college days watching Zuckerberg run across Harvard's campus from the restaurant where Albright dumps him. The lighting (East Coast scenes are all fairly dark) and cinematography are evocative. By the way, the soundtrack sets a surprisingly modern tone. I now regret not grabbing it on Sept. 28, when AmazonMP3 discounted to $2.99.

Albright's breakup, which I understand is fictionalized, sets forth the entire chain of events leading to Facebook's creation. Distraught, Zuckerberg seethes about Albright in a LiveJournal blog post and the same night creates a coed-comparison Website that crashes Harvard's network. All other events follow because of the breakup. "The Social Network" presents a simple motivation for Facebook's founding: It's all about a girl.

The other driving force behind Facebook is male, Napster creator Sean Parker who is surprisingly well-portrayed by Justin Timberlake. Parker enthralls Zuckerberg, guiding him to California and infecting him with the idea Facebook can be not a million-dollar company but a billion-dollar one. I can't attest to the accuracy of Timberlake's Parker characterization, but I enjoyed it.

"The Social Network" is a morality tale about ambiguous morals. Zuckerberg either has none or operates by a different set of morals than his protagonists. Hint to the latter: Something Parker says about the rules being different on the Internet that resonates with Zuckerberg. All the characters gain depth by being shades of gray. No one is purely anything, like real people are supposed to be.

But Zuckerberg's character is the most perplexing. There's something Shakespearean about Zuckerberg in an Asperger's syndrome kind of way. For someone creating a service for defining and maintaining relationships, Zuckerberg strangely and methodically destroys every possibly meaningful relationship around him.

I carefully watched the computers and other devices to see if the filmmaker authentically portrayed the era -- granted, even if only six to seven years past. I noticed at least one faux pas: What looked like a modern MacBook Pro used by a DJ in a 2003 party sequence.

Otherwise, "The Social Network" is riveting and will appeal to anyone using Facebook -- and even those not. I saw an early morning show today, and, to my surprise, most of the audience was over 60 years old. I expect that younger viewers will pack evening shows. Certain movies capture the spirit, the essence of its generation, such as "The Graduate" did for late-1960s Baby Boomers (I compiled but decided not to post a list for other decades). "The Social Network" may be the movie for the Net Generation.

I give "The Social Network" five stars. Do see it.

http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Movie-Review-The-Social-Network/1285977823

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Visual Rhetoric

http://www.weird-websites.info/Funny-Cartoons/funny-political-cartoons-world-financial-crisis-2008.htm

The message in the cartoon is how bad our economy has become. A major problem in America is the number of illegal immigrants sneaking in to find labor. Instead of kicking them out there running for the border. Them jumping the border back home  signifies just how bad things have gotten, not only immigrants but a good percentage of the American population is suffering from unemployment. The audience can be anyone and the 'writer' wants to make people aware of how extreme the economy is in decline, therefore also making the cartoon effective.

I really don't know how blogs work. I can't even get my thingy to post. lol