in response to my last post i have to continue on the topic of advertising on twitter but also talk about promotion on Facebook. i have to admit i am guilty of the posting of promotion on twitter and Facebook. the reason why is that y best friend is a signed rapper at broken records entertainment and is constantly trying to get his music out there. so when ever he has a new song or album he has me post in my twitter about it then i go and post it as my status on Facebook. then i will go and post it in the WNE Class of 2015 group. he then joined the class group even though he doesn't go here and post and spams his new stuff on the page. he then re tweets every tweet that mentions him or one of his songs. so he is what i about promotion online and the worst part is that i take part of it meaning i am part of the problem. this bothers me but hopefully i can figure out a way to use social media to promote him but in a knew not annoying way.

something that i want to talk about is how twitter has changed when twitter first started it was just people keeping you updated on their day to day activities. and people followed their friends because they cared about what was going on in their lives or people followed strangers because they said funny thing and made good quotes that entertained people but like everything else twitter has become a way to advertise a product or service. everyday at this point i have some company tweeting at e telling me they are having a sale or an actor that i am following telling me to go see their new movie 26 every hour. if i wanted to deal with advertisement i would go watch some commercial on my TV. please keep the pointless ad campaign off of tweeter when is see them it makes me hate your products and you lose sales over it. twitter also has started being hacked and people will go on to your profile and spam posts about websites and online services this is despicable and illegal and needs to be stopped. because this effects a persons sense of privacy knowing someone can do that.

The topic that i am going to discuss is how Facebook impacts peoples social lives. let me give you this quick situation to show you what i mean. so this guy is at a party having a good time hanging out with his friends he walks away from them for a moment and accidentally bumps into a cute girl he starts talking to her and they have a nice conversation. she then walks away to go talk to her friend that just showed up. the guy goes back to his friends and ask if they know if she is single none of them know if she is. one of them take out their phone and go on Facebook and check her relationship status. they see that she is in a relationship and the guy decides to cut his losses and go find some other girl to mack on for the rest of the night. the guy might not go home with the new girl he finds but if he didn't have Facebook to find out about the first girl he would have wasted hours on something that never was going to happen. So he know has a better chance plus it makes sure he doesn't move in on another guys girl.

I would like to talk about the dangers of social networking if you are a student leader on campus. social networking is a great way of being informed and sharing your information. but if you are a student leader you need to be constantly aware when you go out. If you go to a party you need to to be aware of what is going on because with social networking a person can just pull out their phone and snap a picture of you doing something that you wouldn't want displayed to the public then with a push of a button the picture is up loaded to a site and your are tagged in it for all the world to see. and this could come back to hurt you because administrators could go in and see these pictures and you could loose your spot in the organization you are part of. you have to remember that your information is only a click away from the rest of the world in today's society. A way to avoid this is making your social media information private and only accessible to the people you choose to let see it.

To add on to my topic of social networking being a waste of time i would like to discusses the article Dustin and Justin's quest for flow. this article talks about Dustin and Justin two of the original members of the Facebook team. Even though Facebook is one of the biggest time wasters in the world both these men hate inefficiency. They both left the company so that they could start a knew one where they are developing a program called Asana that is suppose to make time management easier. Ironically the program is developed in the style of Facebook. it has a news feed it keeps track of information on certain groups and projects it even has a instant chat system so coworkers can get instant feed back from each other. apparently studies show that this system is very effective and increases productivity in  workers. it seems strange that a couple changes and can change the biggest time waster into a time saver. i feel the most important thing is that the content is different on Asana compared to Facebook its not useless information its someones work. this makes it impossible for someone to blindly search through other peoples accounts they can only do their jobs. the next important thing is the people who are using it they are older more mature adults in the working world. this being so i do not find it fair to say that these two men have completely changed the working world and made the corporate Facebook but i do find it cool that they went from one extreme to the other

Something that i would like to talk about with having to do with social networking is how much of a time waster it is. when you look at any student that is at their computer what do you see up as a tab on their browser. Either Facebook or twitter and what is that student usually complaining about that's right how they cant get this paper or presentation or power point done because they are mindlessly browsing through the social media site.but for some reason they will not get off the sight and even when they are not looking at it it just up in the back ground for no reason. this one time my friend was writing a paper and he didn't need the internet but he had his Facebook up in the back ground. Then the internet went down in the dorm and rather then then continuing on with his paper which he was actively working on he got up and left and went to the library. I asked him why he did it and he told me he want ted his Facebook up i asked him what he was doing on it and he told me "nothing i just like having it up" we have become so accustom to being on social networking. that we feel like we always need to have it there subconsciously. this means our WiFi determines where we will go to work rather than a nice quit place where we can focus.

Stop Bringing me down

The subject that I would like to discuss today is about how people use social media just to whine about everything. Don’t get me wrong if someone occasionally writes or posts something about someone or something that pissed them off I have no problem reading that. My problem is that most people will just sit and complain and post comments and statuses all day long about little thing that shouldn’t bother a person. When I see this it starts to get me very angry because people go on to Facebook and twitter to stay connected with you by being updated and informed on events in your life like nights out on the town which people can see your pictures of. But people abuse this and just post crap on their wall. Every has seen a person go through all their friends on Facebook and delete people who they can’t stand seeing their constantly depressing and negative statuses and with twitter it turns into a none stop barrage of negative reinforcement of how bad life is and no one wants to deal with that. So what I’m saying is people please do not constantly throw up stupid statuses that I will instantly want to unfollow you for seeing. If you want to tell me that you had a bad day go ahead and post it but don’t sit there and post one comment after another trying to get sympathy.

Is Twitter A Reliable News Source

Ever since last semester I have begun to think about twitter in a different light. It all started one day when I was sitting in class and I refreshed my twitter on my phone and at the top of was a tweet from @DRUNKHULK which is a twitter that portrays what the Marvel super hero would say if he was drunk 24/7. The tweet he wrote was GADDAFI DEAD! NO COOL! DRUNK HULK JUST FIGURE OUT HOW SPELL HIS NAME!” I then went to a computer after class and went to a real news site and sure enough the head line was Gaddafi dead. My first thought was that I couldn't believe that I learned about world wide news from a satire account. Then i started to think about how cool it was that we are now able to pass along important world news to the masses. Using twitter allows for news to reach a even larger audience that would never have bothered to turn on a TV or radio to find out what is going on in the world. The best bet is for people  to follow real news channels so they can stay informed on major issues in the world. That way even the casual follower will not be completely in the dark on world events. The big surprise to me was that thousands of people found out about Gaddafi death the same way and most people felt the same way that I did that we should be finding out major news from a comedy account. What It comes down to we can use twitter to inform the masses but we need to make sure we are hearing it from trust worthy sources that are credible.

Summer Plans

A couple of weeks ago one of my best friends posted  a group on Facebook inviting me, and my other friends to join so we could plan renting a lack house. I then joined so we could plan, I didn't expect to actually use face book that much while planning the trip. But it seems that we are using it a lot.  We started using it first when we all posted how much we were willing to spend. Then used the ask a question option so we could vote on a decision. This was so much easier then when me and my friends all had to text in our answers in to someone to count. Once we decide on how much we were willing to spend. we all posted on the group wall the links of the houses which showed a picture of it as well. We then decided using the ask a question function ,and voting. We then had to call house owners to see if they would rent to us. Once we called an owner we would post their answer on facebook. If they said yes we would post the availability and if the owners  had demands of us if they rented to a bunch of college. We then used the ask a question option to vote on if we were happy with a the house, or if we waited to hear from another house. We chose a house finally and are going there this summer for a week. I feel that Facebook was a big reason for us getting the whole proses done fast. Apparently Facebook is more then just a place for seeing funny pictures of your friends.