Facebook Takes Over Communication,Once Again.

To get in contact with a potential client you wish you recruit, to speak to your boss about a problem you had at the office that day, to correspond with your professors about work you didn't understand in class or to speak with relatives who live over seas or who are states away, what do we use? Email. Different email accounts for different types of organizations you are assosciated with. For example a school email account which pertains to a more formal means of communication or a regular G-Mail account or Yahoo account which you can use as a more personal type of communication where you can use with your friends or give to stores for special promotions. But what if you want to email someone and you don't know there email? What if you want an email account that does not email you spam? Because who loves spam emails, right? Well, Facebook wins again. Facebook will be comming out with a new means of communication. Email.Facebook will make it easier for you to keep track of all threads and soon be combining text, phone calls, and emails all in one place. Facebook email = finding the person you which to contact alot more easily by having there email listed for you, and all of there information if they wish to give it out. Facebook email also makes sure you recieve no spam mail and makes sure you get no junk mail. It makes means of communicating alot more easier and straightforward.

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Man Down, Let's Tweet!

A person faints as they’re walking directly in front of you: what do you do?

Do you stop what you’re doing and rush over to help them? Or do you stand idle only to take out your cell phone and tweet the present incident? That’s right, I said tweet. And that is exactly what students at the University of Southern California did when Bill Nye was approaching the podium to give a presentation.

Our favorite childhood scientist and TV personality, Bill Nye, (as I sing “Bill Nye the Science Guy” in my head) collapsed and fainted mid-sentence as he was walking up to the podium. Hundreds of students saw him go down but not one of them rushed over to his aid. Instead, they “pulled out their mobile devices to post information about Nye's loss of consciousness.” …… Really? Really?! An entire sea of people with phones out, TWEETING...never mind calling oh, say I don't know...911?! If I was an audience member, the last thing on my mind would be a virtual update; I literally would have gotten off my bum and ran over to him. It’s kind of despicable otherwise.

People like these students are allowing technology to run their lives and that’s not okay! Instead of living in the present moment of reality, they live in a virtual world where basically something has not happened or does not have proper credibility unless it is written about somewhere on the internet.

I personally see no point in twitter, unless it’s being utilized as a promotion tool (i.e. Lady Gaga). Just like the Facebook status, I simply do not care what people are doing every minute of their day. I have my own things to worry about and I don’t need to be reading about someone’s bad day because they got a bad hair cut or they have to sit next to some stinky person on the train, so please stop cluttering up my news feed.

It really is sad and disappointing that nobody helped Mr. Nye. How a twitter update is more important that a real person’s life, is just beyond me.

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ITunes Now Has The Beatles! FINALLY

We have all at some point asked ourselves where is the music? Though there are a ton of new artists emerging on iTunes every day there are a million songs they don’t have. I have never really understood why some artists don’t even show up on iTunes or even curtain songs like the song “Im a Bitch” by Alanis Morissette. This sucks cause when your “lame” like me and only download your music legally from iTunes not being able to find a song pretty much means you might have to turn to the dark side and go to LimeWire for the record (I have not). Some artists don’t want to have their music on the sight god knows why!? But there is the face that money is floating around. It brakes down to a good chunk of money having to go to iTunes and a smaller portion going to the actual artist. But that’s how the music business works! Unfortunately to make it you need to be represented by others and if you (the artist) are talented those “others” end up doing pretty well on the work and talent you put in. and what’s even worse is that your on a contract so your hands are pretty tied most of the time. That’s why people such as JZ and other BIG names have started their own label to cut out the middleman and keep the revenue for themselves. Legal wrangles at Apple prevented the official issue of previously unreleased Beatle material for over two decades (although much of it was frequently bootlegged). In an article is read “Beatles label EMI and Apple Corps Ltd., which manages the affairs of the legendary group, announced the change Tuesday in a joint news release with Apple Inc” Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/11/16/itunes-apple.html#ixzz15aYt5jis But now after much waited time the legacy and apple have joined together and this can only bring good things. Once you crack the Beatles your pretty much in…so I will be here iTunes…waiting for my Alanis Morissette song…patiently I might add.

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Lost in Translation

Sometimes I find myself wanting to be that "annoying" friend, you know, the one that corrects everyone's grammar. To know the difference between "you're" and "your" is actually not difficult. I happen to be very good at English and grammar, but as I can see on Facebook, not everyone is... or are they? I have to be honest, it does make me slightly uneasy seeing awful spelling on Facebook and SMS messages. I'm not a teacher, so I can't see if any one of my friends are actually good writers, or if it's just shorthand used specifically for digital communication. With that being said, I don't feel that it's my place to correct people because I'm simply not qualified to, so I don't.



I found an article on this, published just about two years ago (which is a long time when it comes to mass communication) but I do feel it's still relevant. It can be found here.



I kind of wish I was an English teacher at times, just to see if today's students can actually distinguish between what they text and what they write structurally for school. You'll see in the article that it's actually a bunch of short paragraphs written by different people. Some of them say that texting will ruin grammar skills in young individuals, some say it will not and others say it has already. Someone named Evan Sawyer said that the more people text, the more their grammar skills will deteriorate. Supposedly this is true because more and more teachers are seeing digital shorthand like "lol" and "u" spill over onto school assignments. Do students really know the difference, or is it just laziness?

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The Beatles on iTunes!

If anyone noticed that iTunes had clocks on the iTunes store telling you to come back on Nov. 17 for a surprise. Well if you went back to check it out and you’re a Beatles fan then you were probably a really happy person. For a while I had been wondering went The Beatles will be available on iTunes and the day has come. Now you can buy 13 premastered Beatles albums and three post–breakup compilations. And for those die heart Beatles fans you can now get a $149 box set that includes all the albums and videos on the band’s 1964 concert at the Washington Coliseum. You can’t get these downloads on Amazon’s MP3 store so Apples will be the only place to get them people! I only wonder if there are people out there who don't all ready have these albums?

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Social Networking or the Destruction of Human Communication?

Sights such as MySpace, facebook and twitter rare supposed to be helping people communicate with others right?
Wrong
Though they enable us to stay in touch they take the real element of human communication out. Sights such as facebook especially make it easy to talk to anyone at any time but people also use it as a crutch. Would you rather go on a date and meet a stranger and face the awkwardness or meet someone on facebook where you feel secure because you not face to face but behind a screen? it happens to be the easier way and its less scary because your behind a computer screen. Social networking can be an easy to escape reality by portraying yourself as something you would “like” to be rather than what you are. You can make yourself hot and desirable with an outgoing personality, but what about when you actually have to face humans in the real world you choke.
Some people get so lost being someone that there not that they cant face the real world and are unable to communicate with others. The ability to talk and be able to hold a normal conversation is vital, without actual social skills the possibility of being able to go far in life and succeed is a distant dream.
Technology is supposed to make humans smarter but there is a possibility that it is making us “socially retarded” for lack of a better phrase. It’s a scary thought that the world of communication is evolving so rapidly and people are becoming dependent on the Internet to communicate with other humans. There is a huge difference between talking to someone online or texting vs. having a real talk in person. The two don’t compare.
We as this generation are saved because relatively speaking we haven’t exactly grown up with these social networking sights our whole lives but the younger population are exposed to these sites every day and use them for everything.
We need to stop this epidemic and teach ourselves and others to communicate because human-to-human contact is the most important skill t have in life.

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Lime Unwired

Limewire the leading program used to download mp3 has finally been sued and isn't allowed to supply music anymore. For as long as i can remember people would use Limewire as a means of obtaining new and old music. But now the government has put a band on downloading and sharing music. it leads us to wonder Limewire definitely got in trouble but are we in trouble as well???
Now what, is a question that a lot of people are asking when it comes to obtaining music. The average person is not willing to pay for music when they can simply download it and listen for free. This goes to show that people of our generation have gotten spoiled and used to piracy. In the earlier days when music first became available to the public people had to buy single records to listen to them.
Life without Limewire isn't hard to imagine at all. We all just have to be "honest" and actually buy the songs we like. OR...... find another way to steal music!!!!!!

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