About My Term Research Paper

I found my term research paper to be very interesting. I was always interested in how social networking websites affected different types of relationships so i went ahead and researched a lot about it. It seems that it not only affects friends, intimate relationships and networking relationships but allllllll sorts of relationships we have. I went about my research looking up various studies done about this and found that all of them were either for or against it. I concluded my paper to say that the it can be a negative or positive thing depending on the user and how they use it.

About My Term Project

I presented on social networking and the destruction of human relationships. i believe the presentation went well. I found out some interesting things about social networking through my research. The most interesting things i found were the impacts social networking had on intimate relationships. It seems that couples do get jealous is they see posts from the opposite sex on their significant others pages. I will have to keep that in mind. Also another thing i found that was interesting was a case in London where a murder was cause by a simple change in relationship status from married to single. Things like this actually mean a lot more than we think they do.

Our Class Wiki - So Far

I have posted a great resource on our class wiki. The best freeware programs on the web today. Alot of users are looking for software than can be used to help them in their daily lives such as removing viruses from their computer and finding ways to edit pictures easily....FOR FREE!! check it out =)

New Media & Society

New media is affecting society in many ways. One of the biggest impacts ive seen is the time new media takes on society. We see social networking sites taking up a college students time when he or she can be studying or doing more productive things with their time. I believe this is one of the biggest negative effects that new media is taken on the current generation. This and the way information gets spread through the internet. There was a case where a girl had sent her boyfriend a naked picture of herself through the internet and when they broke up, he sent that picture to everyone he knew on the internet. The girl who was ashamed couldn't take it and hung herself in her closet. I believe these are the biggest impacts new media has had on society.

Privacy & Confidentiality

There are so many privacy issues through new media that we are faced with nowadays. i will focus on social networking websites. Websites such as myspace, facebook, etc. have been faced with privacy issues such as posting pictures online where everyone is able to view it. Once it gets out there people have the ability to copy it and send it to whoever they wish and it can spread to millions of people. This is why you shouldn't post things online that you wouldn't want strangers to see.

The Next New Thing

A new media that currently doesn't exist that i would like to see is music players that are able to stream videos. Seems that it takes too much time to download videos to your myusic player and i think it would be a lot better if people were able to view it quicker and easier onto your phones with streaming videos.

Advice to Baruch College

If i were to give baruch college advise on how to use new media to improve the baruch community, I would tell them first to take down or improve blackboard. It seems that blackboard has way too many issues and can be different in terms of how to upload content on to class pages. Also i would tell them to create their own social network page where people can post content on advice. It seems that when you find something out about graduating at baruch, it is either too late or just in time. We need step by step instructions on what classes to take, what tests to take, and what professors to take. All this can be done through wikis.