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The Argument Profile Picture Makes It is not surprised the idea of making new friends online is more popular as social media has profoundly integrated into lives of the majority. Hence, choosing a good profile picture that represents oneself is always crucial; it reveals one’s identity to viewers and portrays the very first impression to let people know how approachable one is. From every details of Katie May’s profile picture, we can observe that she is making a loud argument-- she has an…

Tana'j Gross Scott Branks del Llano English 1301 15 October 2017 Humans becoming mindless computers "Is Google Making Us Stupid? By Nicholas Carr. Nicholas Carr is a writer and journalist. In this article he explains that the internet is doing more damage to the human brain than helping it. Carr has a few questions about what the internet really does to the human brain. Also, he wants to know is google really making us stupid and unable to process information the right way. This question…

Leonard Pitts wrote an article over Pokémon GO after he had read a tweet by Arlington discussing people playing mobile apps at sacred places. His purpose is to let Pokémon GO players worldwide know that it is disrespectful to be playing games at these remarkable locations like the Arlington National Cemetery, Auschwitz, or the Holocaust Memorial Museum. He wants individual to feel culpable for being immature and to have more admiration for these historical places. Pitts develops an effective…

Facebook vs Twitter Facebook and Twitter are the top two most popular social media sites. Facebook has about roughly 1.86 billions users while Twitter has around 328 million users. While people tend to somewhat believe they are both used for the same purposes such as communication, there are actually quite a bit of differences among how people use the social media sites. Facebook was used for people to become more passive of what they were talking about while Twitter was mainly used for everyone…

Ekagra verma Mrs. Kirkland 10th Grade Lit/Comp 4 September 2017 Cyberbullying Effects From many years, the technology around, us has been majorly evolving, we went from horse carriages to cars to self-driving car electric cars. The changes in our technology are so advanced now that we have a large percentage of the world visible or accessible to our eyes. We can communicate, see each other, and share anything with anyone just in seconds. As there are many advantages of the technology we have,…

Fake news, the last election cycle brought the topic to the forefront. With the advent of social media fake news is able to spread easier, faster, and more effectively to users across the world. One particular form of fake news is sponsored articles. These articles are typically written in order to sell a product or an idea. The article “Top 10 Reasons to Avoid the Flu Shot” by Lori Alton is an example of such sponsored article. The author craftily uses word choice and falsehoods build unethical…

Secondly, public shame leaves an impact on a person's professional life. In “The Internet a Mob without consequence” by Nick Bilton Mrs. Sacco is a good example of a person who was affected by public shame in their professional life. Mrs Sacco was a respected communications director for InterActiveCorp, before she released a extremely racist tweet. This caused her to be shamed publicly by a lot of angry members of the online community like a riot. The New York Times stated “ (Mrs. Sacco) was…

Forum Reflection When posting to an online public forum, there is a responsibility that the users can either take or disregard completely. On the gun control forum that my group decided to use, there was a mixture of both responsible, well-mannered users, and disrespectful internet “trolls”. When I first went in to post my opinions on gun control, I thoroughly expected to get more of the later user responding. What was interesting, though, was that I was pleasantly surprised. Of all of my three…

Many new experiences and opportunities present themselves as new technology arises, including the opportunity to expand bullying to cyberspace. In 1998, the sexual relations between President Bill Clinton and White House intern, Monica Lewinsky were brought to light through the internet - a medium that had previously not facilitated the spread of news. Following the scandal, Lewinsky suffered emotional trauma as a result of being publicly scrutinized both online and off for years. In 2015,…

Answers to Case Studies Questions Facebook: Opportunities, Problems, and Ambitions 1. Since “Facebook generates most of its targeted advertisement”, a process facilitated by the personal information provided by the users, the privacy policy of the company directly affects the interest of the patrons who promote their products through it (Nelson and James, 2013). Facebook sets the default privacy position such that a user who signs up to it, is expected to share most of the personal information…