Societal Issues Raised By Social Media
Location disclosure
with social media sites now being able to post your location if you allow it, it can lead to a lot of safety issues if for example through stalking or if your are being bullied your attacker can use this to almost track where your are and what you've been doing based on your posts and chat through the social media site also targeted ads have been known to add this to there information to pick locations closer to you however with most social media sites you can disable the site from allowing the location to be shown which in this day is very advisable.
File Sharing
with social media making file sharing a lot easier and faster it allows for videos and propaganda from extreme religious or political groups to try and recruit or hide what they are actually doing by gaining interest from all different social angles depending on there targeted groups EG. ISIS have been known for recruiting younger women with the promise of a loving home where they are supposedly going to become a wife or be offered a job and the men often talked up to believe he is going to become a warrior for the right cause and be a hero when in actual fact a lot of the time many of the young woman are tricked in to becoming slaves to many cult like organisations and the young men become more of the fallen
it has also allowed for things such as revenge porn where maybe the couple recorded some acts when they where happily together but through some upset they have become separated and end up on the wrong end of revenge with there private life being viewed liked and shared by millions of people because there ex partner felt vexed
then there is stuff like sexual blackmail where two people online get talking maybe even feel like they have connected well one party at least then it turns out that once the exchange of sexual content has been made it turns from heaven to hell and the black mail ensues with messages such as "send £500 or ill post these videos on your Facebook or ill put those pics up on twitter"
attacks like this have become quite common place as of late with a relevant example of it being a young boy who killed himself over online chat blackmail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODb4PrM3FIg> Youtube video about young boy who took his own life over social media black mail
Andrew Tonner & Bethany Smillie
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
Potiential Dangers of Social Media
Dangers of social
media to individuals including personal safety
Sites such as Facebook and twitter can be tempting for
everyone to go on and talk to their friends and family, they also host threats
to everyone’s safety and reputation. We
all want to be social and have fun, but these websites may not be the best
avenue for social interaction.
ONLINE PREDATORS
Online predators anonymously take the internet to talk to Youngers;
the internet makes it terrifyingly easy for predators to target unsuspecting
kids online. Quite a lot of the time, kids on Facebook will get a friend
request they do not know but they will accept. These could be foreigners or locals;
they will chat with these youngsters. Commenting on how they look, asking
personal questions or even asking to meet up. Most parents trust their kids on
social media but how can you be sure the new “friend” your kid is talking to on
Facebook is really a child? You can’t, that’s why sites like Facebook are
dangerous for kids and why social media sites should be used for adults.
The YouTube link above is a video of an experiment this man
does by making a fake Facebook profile of a 15 year old boy where he adds
random 14 year old girls and chats to them, he contacts their parents to let
them aware of what he’s doing, he chats with different 14 year old girls for a
few days and then asks them to meet up, one at the park and others at their
house. Most of the girls agree to meet and when the man turns up their parents
come out. This is to teach these girls not to talk to anyone online they don’t
know.
"Kids are going to post photos and personal information. At least they should be aware of the risks. At least they should use the privacy tools built into the sites to keep people they don't know from accessing their information and their data. And at least moms and dads should learn about what they are doing."
Public profiles put kids at a much greater risk to:
"Kids are going to post photos and personal information. At least they should be aware of the risks. At least they should use the privacy tools built into the sites to keep people they don't know from accessing their information and their data. And at least moms and dads should learn about what they are doing."
— Ernie Allen, President & CEO, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Public profiles put kids at a much greater risk to:
•Receive a message from a stranger
•Meet with a stranger
•Be harassed by peers
Other
concerns of social networking sites:
•Lack of age-verification mechanisms
• Posting provocative pictures and videos
•Easy access for predators and cyberbullies
•Excessive or addictive access
•Access to unhealthy “groups”
http://www.people-communicating.com/dangers-of-social-networking-sites.html
CYBER BULLYING
Reasons for cyber bullying
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To show off to friends (11%)
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To be mean (14%)
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Something else (16%)
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To embarrass them (21%)
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For fun or entertainment (28%)
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They deserved it (58%)
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To get back at someone (58%)
The link above is explaining what cyber bullying is. It gives
you examples, effects and frequency of cyber bullying.
“Kids who are being cyberbullied are often bullied in person
as well. Additionally, kids who are cyberbullied have a harder time getting
away from the behavior.”
The video above is about a 17 year old girl who was bullied
by her own friends. She tells her story and shows us how cyber bullying can
ruin lives and lead to suicide.
Identity Theft
Social media is a great outlet to engage with family and friends, but are you sharing too much in the process? Identity theft can occur with only a few key pieces of your personal information. And now, courtesy of social media profiles, that information is easier than ever to steal. For example, an average Facebook profile lists a person’s name, date of birth, and hometown. So already you have provided a thief with crucial information they need to steal your identity.The most effective way to protect yourself from identity theft is to make your social profile private. As well, consider the information your putting on your site. Does your friend of a friend really need to know your home address? Probably not. The more personal details you withhold, the safer you will be.
Bethany Smillie and Natalie Patterson
Monday, 8 February 2016
Types Of Social Media
The Types of Social Media
Social Networking
Social networking is the practice of expanding the number of one's business and/or social contacts by making connections through individuals.
While social networking has gone on almost as long as societies themselves have existed, the unparalleled potential of the Web to facilitate such connections is only now being fully recognized and exploited, through Web-based groups established for that purpose.
Based on the six degrees of separation concept (the idea that any two people on the planet could make contact through a chain of no more than five intermediaries), social networking establishes interconnected online communities (sometimes known as social graphs) that help people make contacts that would be good for them to know, but that they would be unlikely to have met otherwise.
Depending on the social media platform, members may be able to contact any other member. In other cases, members can contact anyone they have a connection to, and subsequently anyone that contact has a connection to, and so on. Some services require members to have a preexisting connection to contact other members.
Social media sites include Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+.
social media technologies
(sound/Video)
All video formats facebook supports
a complete list of the video formats that can be uploaded to Facebook:
3g2 (Mobile Video)
3gp (Mobile Video)
3gpp (Mobile Video)
asf (Windows Media Video)
avi (AVI Video)
dat (MPEG Video)
divx (DIVX Video)
dv (DV Video)
f4v (Flash Video)
flv (Flash Video)
m2ts (M2TS Video)
m4v (MPEG-4 Video)
mkv (Matroska Format)
mod (MOD Video)
mov (QuickTime Movie)
mp4 (MPEG-4 Video)
mpe (MPEG Video)
mpeg (MPEG Video)
mpeg4 (MPEG-4 Video)
mpg (MPEG Video)
mts (AVCHD Video)
nsv (Nullsoft Video)
ogm (Ogg Media Format)
ogv (Ogg Video Format)
qt (QuickTime Movie)
tod (TOD Video)
ts (MPEG Transport Stream)
vob (DVD Video)
wmv (Windows Media Video)
Source : Facebook file format list
All youtube supported file formats
.MOV
.MPEG4
.MP4
.AVI
.WMV
.MPEGPS
.FLV
.3GPP
.WebM
Source : Youtube file format list
All twitter supported file formats
Supported image formats: PNG, JPEG, WEBP and GIF. Animated GIFs are supported.
Supported video formats: MP4
Source : Twitter file format list
these are just to give example of a few
Blogs
a website containing a writer's or group of writers' own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often having images and links to other websites.EG. Blogger, Live Journal or Hub Pages
Wikis
is a website which allows collaborative modification of its content and structure directly from the web browser. In a typical wiki, text is written using a simplified markup language (known as "wiki markup"), and often edited with the help of a rich-text editor.[1]A wiki is run using wiki software, otherwise known as a wiki engine. There are dozens of different wiki engines in use, both standalone and part of other software, such as bug tracking systems. Some wiki engines are open source, whereas others are proprietary. Some permit control over different functions (levels of access); for example, editing rights may permit changing, adding or removing material. Others may permit access without enforcing access control. Other rules may also be imposed to organize content.
EG. Wikipedia
Source : wikipedia
Virtual Worlds
A virtual world or massively multiplayer online world (MMOW) is a computer-based simulated environment populated by many users who can create a personal avatar, and simultaneously and independently explore the virtual world, participate in its activities and communicate with others.Source : Virtual Worlds Information
there are many virtual worlds out there such as world of warcraft so i have found a list of the top ten ( unless of course if you have any ideas then comment them for us)
Source : Top Ten Virtual Worlds
with the growth of technology these days it allows for a type of social media that grants a good fit for anyone wether that is facebook, twitter, tumblr, reddit, twitch, youtube, blogger, snapchat, vine , instagram and many more
Andrew Tonner
Social Production, Social Intllegence and Social Capital
Social Production, Social Intelligence and Social Capital
Social Production
Social production occurs when people get together to generate genuine economic value, but little or no overt monetary incentives are involved. Wikipedia may be one of the most widely known examples of social production, with some 30 million different articles in nearly 300 languages, all created and edited by volunteers. (And before you ask just what kind of economic value is created by Wikipedia, you should examine the financial statements of companies like Encyclopedia Britannica and World Book Encyclopedia from twenty years ago.)
source : More detailed description of social production
a short paragraph relating to the founding of wikipedia
(In December 2008, Wales stated that he made Wikipedia's first edit, a test edit with the text "Hello, World!" The oldest article still preserved is the article UuU, created on Tuesday 16 January 2001, at 21:08 UTC. The existence of the project was formally announced and an appeal for volunteers to engage in content creation was made to the Nupedia mailing list on 17 January
The "UuU" edit, the first edit that is still preserved on Wikipedia to this day, as it appears using the Nostalgia skin.
The project received many new participants after being mentioned on the Slashdot website in July 2001, having already earned two minor mentions in March 2001. It then received a prominent pointer to a story on the community-edited technology and culture website Kuro5hin on 25 July. Between these relatively rapid influxes of traffic, there had been a steady stream of traffic from other sources, especially Google, which alone sent hundreds of new visitors to the site every day. Its first major mainstream media coverage was in the New York Times on Thursday 20 September 2001.
Source : Link to first paragraph above
NYT article mentioned in above paragraph
Source : link to new York times article mentioned above
Social Production is now everywhere and as the use of social media continues to grow stronger there is always room online for more whether it is a charity page that has been set up and shared, like pages, buy/sell pages and recently a lot of freebie or trading sites pages and apps have appeared.
Social Intelligence
Social intelligence is the capacity to effectively navigate and negotiate complex social relationships and environments. Data scientist Ross Honeywill believes social intelligence is an aggregated measure of self- and social-awareness, evolved social beliefs and attitudes, and a capacity and appetite to manage complex social change. Psychologist Nicholas Humphrey believes that it is social intelligence, rather than quantitative intelligence, that defines humans
Source : Social intelligence article
an example of social intelligence could be a group of gamers online communicating what to do next to survive or move forward through it working together in a well structured team
Social Capital
Social capital is a form of economic and cultural capital in which social networks are central, transactions are marked by reciprocity, trust, and cooperation, and market agents produce goods and services not mainly for themselves, but for a common good.
The term generally refers to (a) resources, and the value of these resources, both tangible (public spaces, private property) and intangible ("actors", "human capital", people), (b) the relationships among these resources, and (c) the impact that these relationships have on the resources involved in each relationship, and on larger groups. It is generally seen as a form of capital that produces public goods for a common good.
Social capital has been used to explain improved performance of diverse groups, the growth of entrepreneurial firms, superior managerial performance, enhanced supply chain relations, the value derived from strategic alliances, and the evolution of communities
A good example of social capital is targeted advertising dependant on what your searches and posts say about what type of products you like allowing companies to pin point what you are most likely to buy so they can display it to you to make the most money or pages that lead you to pages that help there company such as surveys or other promotional pages
Source : social capital article
Andrew tonner
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