Men Beware of Beautiful Beasts.

For my new media related article, I stumbled across an article from Time’s Techland regarding Facebook scams. According to a Daily Mail survey, men are more likely to be friend a stranger and share personal information, especially if the image on the profile is an attractive female. Images of buff/attractive men didn’t show the same results for women adding strangers. This isn’t surprising to me considering lonely men aren’t necessarily considering the possibility that the attractive female could try to scam him, but instead just wants to look at her pictures.

The article continues on explaining that people accessing social networking sites from mobile devices and other new technologies may also increase risk for fraudulent activity. I try my best not to access my Facebook frequently or on computers that aren’t mine. Though, this isn’t because I’m worried about fraud, but instead I try not to use the site often because I don’t enjoy it like I used to. There are some tips that explain what kind of things regarding a “stranger” trying to friend you should make you see ‘red flags.’ So, thanks to Keith Wagstaff for “Men More likely to Befriend Sexy Strangers in Facebook Scams.” This article can be found at: http://techland.time.com/2011/11/11/men-more-likely-to-befriend-sexy-strangers-in-facebook-scams/?iid=tl-main-feature

Enjoy,

~T

The World Wide Web

This reading was an enlightening view of the beginning of the World Wide Web's (W3) development. One of the main points made by the authors was to highlight the fact that prevailing technologies do not necessarily need to be the best, but simply good enough; the factors stated that are most helpful to a technology's success are price, availability, and open standards. This is interesting because humans are inherently lazy with certain mental processes. For example, if we know a certain way to get to a final destination, we usually take that route instead of finding the fastest because our knowledge is 'good enough.'

Another main point of the article explains what the world wide web defines. It defines a boundless information world where all information can be received and re-referenced as necessary through the address system (URI). There's a network protocol that helps increase performance and features of the markup language (HTML) used to transmit text or images.

The third main point I've chosen to highlight involves the system's future as the developers hope to construct it. Many of these future hopes have been met like more exciting interfaces, access to for-profit services (online shopping), real time features (conferences/gaming), and the ability for non-professional users to also publish online.

A Virtual Death and A Real Dilemma

Facebook becomes a Dogooder Partner!

Finally! I've been complaining much of my last ten years alive about consumers' lack of concern with issues regarding environmental and social justice, humanitarianism, and purchasing local goods from local retailers. According to an article posted by David Cohen, a site called TheDoGooder.com offers discounts for Facebook users so long as the things they purchase as ecologically/economically friendly.

Reading this post brought a smile to my face because people always love wasting their money, but rarely focus their funds towards bettering our planet. Hopefully this website's discounts are incentive enough for people to start spending more of their money more consciously. The conspicuous consumption of global north countries is the leading cause of greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere and also forces people in the global south to live in impoverished nations.

Check out this post if you're interested.

~T

http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-deals-greem-2011-11