Social Networking

Social Networking can be described as a place where people form all over the world can sign-up or subscribe to different sites to post continent and interact with one another. One of the articles that I found interesting on this topics was "What's next? You're future in social networking" and how it describes how business use social networking to their advantage. The big take away from this is that businesses now spend less money on trying to reach the masses. A simple post on their Facebook or a tweet that will link their customers where they need to go can and now they can reach a very large group of people at one time.

Another take away from this topic was the article "Is MySpace good for society" and what I found interesting is that studies have shown that by joining an online sight to make friends with people you don't know has bridged the gap for college students to actually interact with their peers easily.

P2P File Sharing

P2P file sharing can be written out as peer-to-peer file sharing. This service allows for people to transfer very big files digitally without having to worry about file size restrictions. 

In the article "BitTorrent Effect" talks about this company called BitTorrent that does just this. It was presented in 2002 at a hackers event was was designed for the community of people who would like to share big files such as programs form computer to computer without the hassle of having to wait for it. The article then goes on to explain how instead of the community BitTorrent thought they were going to attract, in turn they got people who watch TV and movies on their computer. Companies like BitTorrent have made it easier to basically torrent or rip information onto ones own personal computer. 

My biggest negative for P2P sharing is that is allows copy written information to basically get stolen with no regard to the financial process that was behind.

Old vs. New

Old media vs. New Media

 New media is a media that goes with the times. What was considered new media in the time before the internet what news papers, magaziens and television. Now new media is considered the internet and can even go down to saying that blogs and social media sights are considered new media. 

One example from the reading is about how quick TMZ was able to report of Michael Jacksons death. They were the first website to say that he was found and being taken to the hospital. 

Andrew Savikas goes on to explain in his Forbes article, "Media: Don't Fear New Technologies" how media is going to change and that we should not fear this change but rather embrace it.

Old media is a form that was popular but that is barely or not even used anymore. When someone says to send them an email, other alternative communications could be made that are faster and more direct. For example instead of emailing one could send a text, or to be even faster a tweet.