http://mashable.com/2009/10/16/social-media-changing-lives/
I would recommend anyone taking any communication classes to read this article. It really makes you stop and think about how different our lives are now compared to 5 or 10 years ago. The author Soren Gordhamer talks about how social media tools like Facebook and Twitter have changed the way we interact with one another and with the world around us. Gordhamer also talks about how social media networks and our friends on them have become our most trusted source for information. This article is related to Internet Communication because the internet is a huge part of doing business, meeting and staying in touch with people, what we reveal about ourselves, and what we can influence. Our daily lives revolve around new media technologies and how we use them.
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Metacalf's Law and The Future of the Internet
The Web is information as both running software and the information contained within the software such as pictures. Information moves through networks in a variety of ways. A network consists of two or more computers that are linked in order to exchange files. There are two types of networks: a local network is limited to a geographic area of a computer lab or a school; while a wide network connects larger geographic areas such as North Carolina, or the United States.
Metcalfe's Law states that the value of any telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system. People could talk in both directions and with more than one conversation occurring simultaneously. An example of this would be you sending an email to your targeted recipients. The effect of this would be a network of 100 people is roughly 100 times as valuable as a network of only 10 people. The law has often been illustrated using the example of fax machines: a single fax machine is useless, but the value of every fax machine increases with the total number of fax machines in the network, because the total number of people with whom each user may send and receive documents increases.
There are two main critics to Metcalfe's Law. Some say that the term value is not defined and can mean different things to different people. Others say that it assumes that connections in the network are all equal. I agree with Metacalfe's Law because i believe that a social network site such as Facebook, or Twitter, works the same way as the fax machine described above. The greater number of users with the service, the more valuable the service becomes to the community. Deriving from Metcalfe's Law, every new "friend" accepted or added on these social networking sites makes the user's profile ever more valuable in terms of the law.
I believe that five years from now the internet will be the number one main source where people get their information from, specifically social media sites such as Facebook, and Twitter. It's simple to me, people trust the word of the internet and their social media friends more and more each passing day. I hope that the future of the internet provides a better way to teach people the proper way of conducting research and not just plagiarizing someone's work other than their own. Let's hope the internet makes the human race smarter, not stupider and more dependent upon it.
Metcalfe's Law states that the value of any telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system. People could talk in both directions and with more than one conversation occurring simultaneously. An example of this would be you sending an email to your targeted recipients. The effect of this would be a network of 100 people is roughly 100 times as valuable as a network of only 10 people. The law has often been illustrated using the example of fax machines: a single fax machine is useless, but the value of every fax machine increases with the total number of fax machines in the network, because the total number of people with whom each user may send and receive documents increases.
There are two main critics to Metcalfe's Law. Some say that the term value is not defined and can mean different things to different people. Others say that it assumes that connections in the network are all equal. I agree with Metacalfe's Law because i believe that a social network site such as Facebook, or Twitter, works the same way as the fax machine described above. The greater number of users with the service, the more valuable the service becomes to the community. Deriving from Metcalfe's Law, every new "friend" accepted or added on these social networking sites makes the user's profile ever more valuable in terms of the law.
I believe that five years from now the internet will be the number one main source where people get their information from, specifically social media sites such as Facebook, and Twitter. It's simple to me, people trust the word of the internet and their social media friends more and more each passing day. I hope that the future of the internet provides a better way to teach people the proper way of conducting research and not just plagiarizing someone's work other than their own. Let's hope the internet makes the human race smarter, not stupider and more dependent upon it.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Why We Blog
Why do we as humans feel the need to blog? We blog because we are social creatures, with emotions and needs. We feel a connection to other human beings but sometimes it is hard to communicate with others verbally or even physically. Some people find blogging as the only way they can connect to other people and make friends.
There are five major motivations for blogging. One may blog to document their own life experiences. The blogger may simply want to provide commentary and opinions on products they use. Some bloggers blog to express their deeply felt emotions. Others articulate ideas through writing; this allows the blogger to maintain community forums.
Blogging provides two main benefits to the writer. Blogging provides an audience to shape the writing that goes on. It also is an archive of potential reusable posts. Blogging provides an outlet for expressing a point of view on topics the author considers much more than just chatter. Many bloggers have a code of ethics that dictate what he or she writes. This may include things like: never criticizing family or friends or expressing political views and opinions that are openly inflammatory.
In conclusion, blogging is a form of stress release through writing; as well as, a way people connect to other people. Normal everyday people are the ones who usually blog about everyday things or events in their life.
There are five major motivations for blogging. One may blog to document their own life experiences. The blogger may simply want to provide commentary and opinions on products they use. Some bloggers blog to express their deeply felt emotions. Others articulate ideas through writing; this allows the blogger to maintain community forums.
Blogging provides two main benefits to the writer. Blogging provides an audience to shape the writing that goes on. It also is an archive of potential reusable posts. Blogging provides an outlet for expressing a point of view on topics the author considers much more than just chatter. Many bloggers have a code of ethics that dictate what he or she writes. This may include things like: never criticizing family or friends or expressing political views and opinions that are openly inflammatory.
In conclusion, blogging is a form of stress release through writing; as well as, a way people connect to other people. Normal everyday people are the ones who usually blog about everyday things or events in their life.
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