Blog: Social networking sites

     If a ginie would grant me a wish, I would want it to grant me a new media social networking meant specifically for teens, 13-19 years of age. This will cater solely to this segment of the online social networking community. Teens get into so much trouble with Social Media often without knowing it at all. And most often than not the problem is in the language of their messages.      Akin to Snapchat's disappearing photos sent between and among friends, except this will have the consolidated capability to delete messages after it's read by friends.      Allowing friends and friends of friends read messages sent to each other, this messaging feature will ensure teens' typical  reckless, dangerous and life-haunting comments are tamed and put to extinction with immediacy after being read. This distinguishing feature will put many teens out of trouble which currently seems to haunt many affecting job and career prospects, and general ...

     File sharing is a big part of new media and is pretty widely used amongst users of new media. It adds to the convenience of many who like to “share” files amongst themselves. It is essentially the practice of sharing computer data from one computer to another computer over a network or the Internet.      P2P aka Peer-to-peer file sharing is the process of sharing digital content like electronic books, multimedia (videos, music, etc) through a direct connection between peers. There’s been a crackdown on P2P since people do it to avoid paying for services used leading to huge loss of revenue for content producers. This is akin to the main problem facing the music industry today, for instance.      Some of the best and most common examples of P2P is the sharing of music, music videos, videos, and their use doesn’t  seem to slow down anytime soon. As per the NYTimes article titled “ As Rights Clash on Youtube, Some Music Vanishes,” i...

     For all the great uses and perks of new media, privacy may well be the biggest issue that bedevils it. It is simply a huge issue. New media companies collect, store and monetize troves of consumer data. This almost monopoly of consumer data by new media firms certainly in most recent times raises the debate about data privacy and confidentiality.       This discussion is had as a result of users willingly allowing companies (think of Social Media/Networking sites like Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Instagram, Snapchat, etc). The big debate surrounding this topic is that while people willingly give consent to these online sites, they have no clue how their data is being used or who else has access to it. The most recent case, one with a huge international backlash involved the online Social Networking site, Facebook. The uproar gave insights into how big privacy of user data is and confidentiality surrounding its use ...