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11/1/10

• Facebook Developers Sold User IDs to Data Brokers
• Facebook developers were selling UIDs (User IDs) to data brokers. This was putting people's personal identification information out to the public over the internet.
• People who have Facebook, the data brokers, Facebook developers
• This article deals with the control and security sects of Social & Ethical Issues. The people who control the UIDs are selling them wrongly and the UIDs are not secure and safe under the control of those developers who sold them away.
• This article deals with the Arts, Entertainment, & Leisure and Business & Employment sects of the Areas of Impact because some people use Facebook as entertainment and they use it in their for leisurely pleasure. People who were employed by Facebook broke their policies that were set for them to follow and the data was sold to other businesses.
• I think that developers who sold away the UIDs were wrong in what they did. I don't feel safe knowing that my personal ID could be sold away to someone I don't know and who could use that information against me and to harm me in some way. I feel what they are doing is plain wrong.

10/28/10

• School Weblockers
• School Weblockers -- students are able to upload their assignments and store them in the internet for the viewing of their teachers. This makes life easier for the teachers because they do not have to collect physical copies of the assignment. It also makes the assignment easier to grade for the teachers and submit their grades back to the students electronically.

10/28/10

• In the US, the hourly salary of the BMW autoworkers is $15. For the same work in Germany, BMW automakers get paid 24 euros or $33 an hour.
• Yes I'm surprised. I figure that due to the cost of living in the US compared to other countries around the world, the pay here would be equal if not higher than in Germany. Jobs in the US are offshored to other countries due to this fact alone so the difference in pay is surprising to me.
• Other companies and/or countries that may be interested in offshoring jobs to the US could be other car companies or countries that have an incredibly high cost of living. Although the cost of living is very high in the major cities and surrounding counties in the US, the cost of living is much lower in the more rural areas of the country. So any country that would look at the US in the way that we look at China or Thailand, cheap and efficient labor, could offshore over here.

10/12/10

• Technology in the Classrooom
• 1-->One professor found students who use laptops excessively did 11% worse than the other students in her class. 2-->64% of teenage students use emoticons in their school work. 3-->Two-thirds of U.S. teenagers use internet writing shortcuts, such as informal abbreviations in their school work.
• A major is that the GPA's of students who regularly use Facebook is a whole point lower than those who do not. This issue could possibly be solved if Facebook would come out with a certain way to regulate the amount of time teenagers can spend on Facebook. This would give the students more time to focus on their school work.
• A downside to technology is the affect it is having on American teenagers. We have become to adept to using certain, informal language on the internet like "lol" or "omg" that some people now think that this type of language is appropriate to use in their school work. This seems to be showing a downgrade in some teenagers intelligence and grammar. Teachers should crack down on the use of this language by marking down significantly on the student's who use this language. The problem has already manifested iteslf and it would have been much easier to stop it before it got started but in the state that it is is now, it could be a very complex and difficult problem to solve.

10/5/10

• Social Networks Bring Us to Isolation
• Social networks are setting people into a state of isolation. People are communicating with others who they do not personally know and believe that they are actually friends with these people. This is causing a lack of real and true friends for others.
• The stakeholder's in this article are the users of social networks around the world.
• This article relates to the Privacy & Anonymity section of the Social & Ethical Issues because people do not actually know who they are interacting with over the Internet.
• This article falls under the Arts, Entertainment, & Leisure section of the Areas of Impact because people use these social networks in their spare and leisure time.
• Personally, this is quite alaraming to see. People all over the Internet and all around the world are "connected" with people who they do not know a single thing about. They are becoming network friends with random people who in reality could be the opposite of who they would really want to be around in real life.

9/29/10

• Twitter Surpasses Myspace
• Twitter has now surpassed Myspace to become the third-busiest social networking site in the world. Twitter's 96 million users, up 76% from last year; while Myspace is down to 95 million users, a 17% decline.
• The stakeholder's in this article are the users of social networks around the world as well as the people who run these social networks.
• This article relates to the People & Machines and Globilization & Cultural Diversity because it effects the people that use and run the social networks and the social networks connect people from all over the globe and from all different cultures.
• This article falls under the Arts, Entertainment & Leisure area of impact because many people use these social networks as some form of entertainment and people also use them in their free time.
• I personally am happy to hear that Twitter is growing so rapidly. I have my own Twitter account and I think it is a cool and easy way for friends to share what they are doing or experiencing with each other. I hope that Twitter continues to rise on the social network spectrum in the near future.

9/21/10

• Girl Sues School for Invasion of Privacy
• A 17 year old high school student in Pennsylvania just received $33,000 after suing her school. This was following the confiscation of the girl's phone during class and the later finding of nude images of the girl on the phone.
• The stakeholder's in this case are high school students as well as teachers and administration of high schools.
• This specific case relates to privacy as a part of Social & Ethical Issues.
• This article relates to me because I have my own personal cell phone.
• To solve the issues at hand, a rule should be implemented that if a student's cell phone is confiscated by a teacher or administrator, the person who confiscates it does not have permission to look through the files on the phone i.e., pictures, videos, etc

9/17/10

• Social Networks Predict Epidemics
• People could possibly be able to predict future epidemics by studying and investigating the information posted on the different social networks available to citizens.
• This article relates to the "people & machines" aspect of the listed Social & Ethical Issues.