Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Cell Phones, Facebook, Twitter

This is an interesting article about the future of cell phones, most notably the mapping possibilities. It's connected to our upcoming discussion about data mining and corporations use of consumer information. Be careful, Big Brother may be watching! Read the article...

Here's another article from the NYTimes that discusses Facebook's new policy on information that you post on their site...who owns it? Them or you? Read the article...

Here is a fairly funny site entitled Oh Crap. My Parents Joined Facebook

Here's an article about a doctor giving Twitter updates during surgery. Read the article...


And finally, I thought this was very entertaining...

3 comments:

  1. I remember when i first heard about Facebook about 5 years ago, i was not able to get an account because it was so exclusive for big colleges. Today Facebook has expanded greatly. First it started out only being for college students to keep in touch, now it has grown into this social networking site open to everyone, free to stalk whoever they choose. so it is good that companys are comming up with methods to hide identitys, such as o crap my parents joined facebook

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  2. Why in the world would you want a doctor twittering why you are having surgery performed. That is crazy.

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  3. My aunt and my mom both just joined Facebook and requested to be my friend. I politely told my mom that Facebook is a domain I use to keep in touch with my friends and that if she wanted to see how I was doing more regularly, she should just call. Besides, my aunt is a very religious family therapist and I can only imagine what she would think about her college neice's facebook page. I'd just rather not have that discussion!

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