Final Post

Social Ethical Problems:

Facebook, Flickr and Msn have Social ethical problems. For example, Msn Messenger is an instant messaging program that allows you to talk to your contacts in real time. When talking to someone online you cannot read their body language and how they react to something you say. When you talk to somone face to face to can see how they respond when you say something to them. They could be happy, feel shocked or may take offense to what you have said to them even though you did not mean to insult them. You can correct them by rewording your previous sentence so they can understand you better. Where chatting online you cannot really do this because you cannot witness their reactions to what you say to them. Websites like Facebook and Msn are causing the new generation of kids to lose their ability to socialize in person. Instead out going out with friends to the movies or other activities like our parents did, kids are now staying at home glued to the computer screen talking to their friends over Facebook or Msn. Kids who spend way to much time on these social networking sites will not be able to interact with people as well as the generation prior because they will be only used to talking to someone on the computer and not seeing their body language and reactions to things they say where as talking face to face is much different and requires faster reaction times where on instant messaging you can think and wait about what you are going to say in your response.

Blogger, Delicious, Wikispaces Tied together:

Creating a wiki is a useful tool for others to view and learn from while researching the internet. Some can be very misleading because Wiki's allow anyone to add or change information to the wiki. That is why you have to be careful where you get your information from. Wiki's that are true are the ones that are very well organized into headings and columns, where typically the ones that are false are the ones that are very short and have no organized information.When I created my wiki about Facebook, Flikr and Msn I used two other Internet websites to update and save the history of websites I used to get information for my wiki. The two I used were Delicious for my history and Blogger to update my progress on my wiki. After each class I updated and wrote a little response in my blogger FacebookFlickrMsn blog on what I did that day, this recorded my progress for the entire wiki. Every reference I used got recorded into my Delicious account this like a bibliography of my wiki. All of these three tools on the Internet work very well together. You have the wiki which is the main source of all your information and then the blog is like an organizer which keeps track of all your new updates and changes and the Delicious account to show where you got all your information from in case the viewers of your wiki want to get more information on that particular topic. After Using these three great tools I came to the conclusion that the blog and the Delicious account help support the wiki and make it much better than if you just use a wiki alone. If you just had a wiki with no blog or history of information people would see it and just move on to another wiki because they would believe that yours would have false information because no work was put into it. But if you have a wiki that is supported by a blog and a Delicious account people would view your wiki as a very organized wiki that looks very professional and would have useful information.

The last topic I was assigned to research was the website "MSN" owned by microsoft. Msn is one of the most popular websites on the web. They have been around for quite awhile now since its debut with Microsoft's Windows 95, 14 years ago. What I basically researched was Msn's history as a website. I also reasearched their features and services For example Hotmail, Msn messenger , Maps, MSN autos etc.

My second topic I researched was the website called "Flickr" this is a photo and video sharing site similar to PhotoBucket and Google's Picasa web albums. The interesting thing I found out about this website is that It was created in Vancouver by a Canadian. Flickr is still growing in size and even having more than 3 Billion photos on it.

On my first few days of creating my wikispaces blog I started with Facebook because to me Facebook seemed to be the easier one because I was used to it and similar with its programs and functions. I added a few pictures to make it look more appealing.

On May 28, 2009 I started my wikispaces blog "FacebookFlickrMsn" for my infotech class. Each member in Infotech 12 was assigned different topics for their Wikispace blog. For example, google domination, Bluetooth , Pda's and Cellphones.