Monday, September 26, 2011

Blogs vs wikis

Blogs are the individual posts and the wikis are done in group. Both blogs and wikis are new media that allows people to share the information. In blogs only the owner can edit and delete the information where as every user can edit and delete the information. Blogs is generally used to spread the news in their own words and wikis are generally used to do the group work. As in this article "Brooklyn blogs helps lead to drug raid" one blogger blogs that "Fighting and drug deals going down in the driveway of this house" which helps to catch the drug addicts. So blogs has also been helpful in finding criminals due to the blog post. In terms of wiki it is used in a different way. As in this article " How to use wikis for business" it writes that "The most well-know example of a wikis is wikipedia, an online encyclopedia that is written and maintained by, well, anybody who feels like it". So wikis is used in this manner.

Friday, September 9, 2011

Social Networking:A purposeful loss of privacy

Social networking has been so powerful and popular now. It helps us to keep in touch with our friends, family and relatives. We can be closer with them by social networking websites than a telephone. Apart form advantages these social networking sites have disadvantages too. The website like Facebook is used by companies to monitor the employee for unsuitable pictures and content. Many people don’t get a job because of their Facebook profile. In addition people are so careless that they don’t even use their privacy settings in order to prevent the identity theft. It has been a dangerous platform for identity theft.

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