Criterion D
Facebook users are facing a dilemma with privacy issues since the social network is opening public search’s for the public; privacy is a huge concern to most of the Facebook users since they have a lot of private information posted in their limited access web pages.
A feasible solution is that all Facebook users will get a message which says that all of their information will be available for the public and they would have to agree by ticking a box. This will verify that any Facebook user will be satisfied with the fact that any of his/her information will not be private but available for anyone to see. Then a committee would be formed from different groups, these would be software programmers, trusted users form the social network, and other relevant groups. This committee would then vote and choose for what would be sensible for the public to have access to; this would be small stuff like names, E mails, where they come from as a pose to very important information like home addresses and other private info.
The next step is to educate the public with the new rules and new modifications that happened. Then a commission would be made to regulate these standards through then new rules that have been enforced for every one to follow, and if anyone refuses to follow these rules they will face serious consequences and penalties like ban.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Criterion C
Criterion C
Social networking site Face book provides positive impacts on Society. One positive impact on Society is that users in the Facebook website communicate and share information with each other in a social and healthy way. Facebook provides their users private and confidential limited access pages to share and post information to other users.
Facebook provides a good and clear environment for their users but it might also cause negative impacts on society. A negative impact is that Facebook users might be addicted to the social network which will cause the people to exceed their usage of time. This will be a negative approach because it might cause users to waist time and won’t be intact with what’s going on in the society.
The most serious problem is that sometimes Facebook members will post confidential information like credit card numbers, and then other users would try to steel this confidential information. This would go under the crime of fraud but it is very hard to track these users since they have done the crime inside a cyber network with multiple users.
This problem has a very important implication for impact on society because it is a very serious crime with very harsh consequences. But it is very hard to track these criminals because of the fact that all of this fraud is being conducted in cyber space where there aren’t official records of what happened.
Bibliography
http://csis.pace.edu/~dwyer/research/DwyerAMCIS2007.pdf
Erik Brady and Daniel Libit. USA TODAY. McLean, Va.: Mar 9, 2006. pg. C.1
. Computerworld. Framingham: Oct 1, 2007. Vol. 41, Iss. 40; pg. 56, 1 pgs
http://gauntlet.ucalgary.ca/story/11743
Social networking site Face book provides positive impacts on Society. One positive impact on Society is that users in the Facebook website communicate and share information with each other in a social and healthy way. Facebook provides their users private and confidential limited access pages to share and post information to other users.
Facebook provides a good and clear environment for their users but it might also cause negative impacts on society. A negative impact is that Facebook users might be addicted to the social network which will cause the people to exceed their usage of time. This will be a negative approach because it might cause users to waist time and won’t be intact with what’s going on in the society.
The most serious problem is that sometimes Facebook members will post confidential information like credit card numbers, and then other users would try to steel this confidential information. This would go under the crime of fraud but it is very hard to track these users since they have done the crime inside a cyber network with multiple users.
This problem has a very important implication for impact on society because it is a very serious crime with very harsh consequences. But it is very hard to track these criminals because of the fact that all of this fraud is being conducted in cyber space where there aren’t official records of what happened.
Bibliography
http://csis.pace.edu/~dwyer/research/DwyerAMCIS2007.pdf
Erik Brady and Daniel Libit. USA TODAY. McLean, Va.: Mar 9, 2006. pg. C.1
. Computerworld. Framingham: Oct 1, 2007. Vol. 41, Iss. 40; pg. 56, 1 pgs
http://gauntlet.ucalgary.ca/story/11743
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Criterion B
Criterion B
The IT system that is being used by the Face book website and all other websites are based on three components. The first component is the database that is being used and this database is basically a network of connected servers from all around the world. The standard internet protocol (IP) then uses the process to transmit data and information by packet switching. Another component to connect to the internet is by using web browsers, a web browser is a software(figure 1) that enables the computer to display the features of the web site that is being used, text, images, videos, music, and much more, these are the main information that are located in a web page in the internet and the world wide web and these software’s are standard software’s located any personal computer like internet explorer, Fire fox (figure 1), Safari, and many more.
Figure 1
Three main technological developments that led more and more people to use the internet are very important for the Face book website. The speed of the internet is a very important feature because now that the standard internet protocol (IP) increased the process to transmit data and information by increasing the packets for packet switching and this is very important for the Face book website because now people can have quick access to the website to the information. The other development is that now people can have huge storages (memory) to save and add their information and this is mainly because the files have gotten much smaller and much more accessible. Another way for people to have easy access to these websites is that now people can have quick and easy access to downloads, insulations, and much simpler processes to follow.
The future will even be more optimistic the internet providers and servers will have to even boost the internet speed even further (see figure 2). The internet will even become more accessible to people, for example maybe we don’t need to have a network in our house because we could connect from any place in the world immediately from our computer to our internet provider, just like the current mobile phone. There will be further development to make the internet even cheaper and affordable for people to even possibly use broadband connections.
Figure 2
Bibliography
http://www.ringworld.org/~tlee/images/internet_speed.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#The_Internet_Viewed_on_Mobile_Devices
The IT system that is being used by the Face book website and all other websites are based on three components. The first component is the database that is being used and this database is basically a network of connected servers from all around the world. The standard internet protocol (IP) then uses the process to transmit data and information by packet switching. Another component to connect to the internet is by using web browsers, a web browser is a software(figure 1) that enables the computer to display the features of the web site that is being used, text, images, videos, music, and much more, these are the main information that are located in a web page in the internet and the world wide web and these software’s are standard software’s located any personal computer like internet explorer, Fire fox (figure 1), Safari, and many more.
Figure 1
Three main technological developments that led more and more people to use the internet are very important for the Face book website. The speed of the internet is a very important feature because now that the standard internet protocol (IP) increased the process to transmit data and information by increasing the packets for packet switching and this is very important for the Face book website because now people can have quick access to the website to the information. The other development is that now people can have huge storages (memory) to save and add their information and this is mainly because the files have gotten much smaller and much more accessible. Another way for people to have easy access to these websites is that now people can have quick and easy access to downloads, insulations, and much simpler processes to follow.
The future will even be more optimistic the internet providers and servers will have to even boost the internet speed even further (see figure 2). The internet will even become more accessible to people, for example maybe we don’t need to have a network in our house because we could connect from any place in the world immediately from our computer to our internet provider, just like the current mobile phone. There will be further development to make the internet even cheaper and affordable for people to even possibly use broadband connections.
Figure 2
Bibliography
http://www.ringworld.org/~tlee/images/internet_speed.png
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#The_Internet_Viewed_on_Mobile_Devices
Thursday, October 4, 2007
criterion A 2
Face book open profiles to public
Facebook has now opened a new search option to show information of private users to the public, these moves will likely anger private user’s and cause a lot of problems. Facebook, one of the most used social networking website will give the option to allow any one who isn’t even registered to search for any picture’s and information of user’s in the Facebook website, even though they are private information. So if you have private pictures and information on the Facebook website don’t be amazed if practically anyone in the internet could be viewing them right now. Plus Facebook is a way for students and university candidates to interact with their studies by posting pictures and information for experiments or studies that they have conducted in other countries. Although Facebook will also give the option for any registered user to vary their privacy settings, the closing window for this setting is in a month’s time.
Facebook, Facebook is a website in the World Wide Web. The internet is a network of connected servers from all around the world. These computers are connected by internet service providers. Browsers are used to access sites on this network. TCP-IP protocols define the rules for access.
If Facebook was to show their users private information on the website, then it could be interpreted in an eccentric approach. It could be interpret it as a place were people won’t have their privacy and my opinion is that it’s a place were other people would just enjoy viewing private pictures and information of other people because of their immaturity and the tendency to abuse people’s privacy. Then the next step will come along and people would enjoy viewing explicit images and sexually provoking posts.
Facebook has now opened a new search option to show information of private users to the public, these moves will likely anger private user’s and cause a lot of problems. Facebook, one of the most used social networking website will give the option to allow any one who isn’t even registered to search for any picture’s and information of user’s in the Facebook website, even though they are private information. So if you have private pictures and information on the Facebook website don’t be amazed if practically anyone in the internet could be viewing them right now. Plus Facebook is a way for students and university candidates to interact with their studies by posting pictures and information for experiments or studies that they have conducted in other countries. Although Facebook will also give the option for any registered user to vary their privacy settings, the closing window for this setting is in a month’s time.
Facebook, Facebook is a website in the World Wide Web. The internet is a network of connected servers from all around the world. These computers are connected by internet service providers. Browsers are used to access sites on this network. TCP-IP protocols define the rules for access.
If Facebook was to show their users private information on the website, then it could be interpreted in an eccentric approach. It could be interpret it as a place were people won’t have their privacy and my opinion is that it’s a place were other people would just enjoy viewing private pictures and information of other people because of their immaturity and the tendency to abuse people’s privacy. Then the next step will come along and people would enjoy viewing explicit images and sexually provoking posts.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Criterion A
Face book open profiles to public
“Popular social networking site Facebook has added a public-facing search function in a move which is likely to anger privacy advocates.”(Facebook opens profiles to public, 2007). Facebook, one of the most used social networking website will give the option to allow any one who isn’t even registered to search for any picture’s and information of user’s in the Facebook website, even though they are private information. So if you have private pictures and information on the Facebook website don’t be amazed if practically anyone in the internet could be viewing them right now. Plus Facebook is a way for students and university candidates to interact with their studies by posting pictures and information for experiments or studies that they have conducted in other countries. Although Facebook will also give the option for any registered user to vary their privacy settings, the closing window for this setting is in a month’s time.
The website is Facebook’s so they have every right to do what they want to do- even though it invades people’s privacy and is against people’s own will. “This transforms Facebook from being a social network to being a quasi-white page of the web,” (Om Malki, Technology writer, GigaOm blog).
If Facebook was to show their users private information on the website, then it could be interpreted in an eccentric approach. It could be interpret it as a place were people won’t have their privacy and my opinion is that it’s a place were other people would just enjoy viewing private pictures and information of other people because of their immaturity and the tendency to abuse people’s privacy. Then the next step will come along and people would enjoy viewing explicit images and sexually provoking posts.
“Popular social networking site Facebook has added a public-facing search function in a move which is likely to anger privacy advocates.”(Facebook opens profiles to public, 2007). Facebook, one of the most used social networking website will give the option to allow any one who isn’t even registered to search for any picture’s and information of user’s in the Facebook website, even though they are private information. So if you have private pictures and information on the Facebook website don’t be amazed if practically anyone in the internet could be viewing them right now. Plus Facebook is a way for students and university candidates to interact with their studies by posting pictures and information for experiments or studies that they have conducted in other countries. Although Facebook will also give the option for any registered user to vary their privacy settings, the closing window for this setting is in a month’s time.
The website is Facebook’s so they have every right to do what they want to do- even though it invades people’s privacy and is against people’s own will. “This transforms Facebook from being a social network to being a quasi-white page of the web,” (Om Malki, Technology writer, GigaOm blog).
If Facebook was to show their users private information on the website, then it could be interpreted in an eccentric approach. It could be interpret it as a place were people won’t have their privacy and my opinion is that it’s a place were other people would just enjoy viewing private pictures and information of other people because of their immaturity and the tendency to abuse people’s privacy. Then the next step will come along and people would enjoy viewing explicit images and sexually provoking posts.
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