Sidonia Willis Mr. Lewis Engl. 1301-018 14 October 2014 The Not-So-Social Life Many social networks have created the opportunity for people to communicate almost instantly over almost any distance. Social network’s uses have become more popular and have created a whole new world of its own. The author Brian Jung’s essay “ The Negative Effects of Social Media on Society and Individuals” expresses the problems that social media is creating today. He exposes the negatives effects of online use consisting of people getting Cyber bullied, the false sense of connection people receive, and people’s lack of privacy.
PRISM One in seven intelligence reports released by the NSA sites PRISM for its source of raw material, making it the NSA’s number one source of raw material (Poitras, 2013). PRISM is a classified mass data-mining program created by the NSA in 2007 (MacAskill, 2013) designed to extract and store data from major online service providers for analysis. Some of the companies allegedly involved include Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple, and many more. Albeit true PRISM targets foreign suspects, data on U.S citizens (and innocent foreigners) is also collected unintentionally (Poitras, 2013). With personal information such as phone calls, video chats, emails, photographs, documents, and connection logs (Poitras, 2013) easily accessible to the
Ariel Widener February 21, 2012 Different Punishments With the world at a standstill on punishment the stories, “Bring Back Flogging” and “Douse” tell stories of two different purposes brought together leading to the same outcome of the punishment pursued inside the words written. “Bring Back Flogging” talks about the punishment in the old days as well as the modern times. On the other hand, “Douse” states different situations dealing with the Internet pinpointing cyber-bullying. These two stories are more in common when they are looked at closely. “Bring Back Flogging” and “Douse” are two different stories, but in the end they are alike in more ways than one seeing letting inmates out early on good behavior compare to cyber-bullying
Two of the most informal ways this is through is through phishing and pharming. Both of these methods provoke users to unreal websites, where they are asked to participate in different things. This includes login content, much as usernames and passwords, phone book, addresses, accomplishment carte lottery, funds invoice numbers, and opposite content criminals can use to "steal" another mortal's identicalness. For this cause, it
I've seen a lot of posts about Anonymous lately. The hacktivist group has entered the mainstream through their organizing and support of Occupy Wall Street protests, and hacking initiatives against companies like Stratfor and PayPal. Anonymous has been portrayed in the media as youthful, impulsive, tech savvy, and generally noble in intent, if not controversial in action. However, these descriptors of the famed "internet hate machine" are only of half the story. There is another side of Anonymous with a history riddled with racism, homophobia, terrorism, and pedophilia.
Internet usage is on the rise and the main sources for obtaining information in the 21st century. Like with everything it has its advantages and disadvantages. One would say the advantages out way the disadvantages, making research more accessible at any time. Social media advantages and disadvantages were discussed and they have altered the way most individual post their business. It is no longer private and once it’s posted it can be used against someone.
What makes BS so problematic now is that it is so common. With things like blogs and other open forums on the internet, anyone can share their BS with larger audiences. There are so many people chiming in with their own thoughts that when looking for objective information, people are drowned in loads of BS. Even this seemingly innocuous form of BS, such as the kind that is found in political forums and on personal blogs on the internet can cause problems. Political forums on the internet are cesspools of propaganda and biased BS.
The Internet eg has resulted in many chat rooms, online social networking, and even girl-boy relationships. There is some negative effects however. Instead of face to face personal relationships and communications, Internet communications are faceless, remote, impersonal. The TV and Internet's power as an electronic medium altered our perception of reality, our relationship with each other and the world. The TV’s many documentaries, fiction films, influences the way we think about the real and historical world, our perceptions of relationships.
In fact, in August of 2011, DHS had a threat assessment released that claims that most of the Anonymous group is nothing more than “script kiddies” (Nguyen, 2011). Script kiddies are hackers that use tools that have been written by other, wiser hackers, and simplify for the uneducated the means to hack a website (among other things). Script kiddie is a rather demeaning term in the hacking world. Maybe DHS poked them with a stick here. Website
The way that the American culture is in this current time every aspect of life is somehow connected to the internet and the consumption of news and reports are no different. The way people consume the news on the internet is a completely different experience then it is watching the news. Some news channels even offer more in depth details about a story that way aired on television on their website. They also use the website to provide the citizens with news that did not make the airing of the broadcast as well. When journalist and news reporters take advantage of the media they reach a broader audience because this is the age of the internet.