The essence of Web 2.0 technology is share and interaction. Everyone is lonely in the world and we always like to find people who are of the same kind as ourselves. With social media technology, we can communicate and find friends who have similar interests with us easily. The key word of social media technology is niche, customized and user-generated content.
I use del.icio.us as my bookmark on the Internet and Google Reader to subscribe what I’m interested in. When doing teamwork, my team member and me use Google Docs to accomplish our group reports.When exams are coming, I go to Slideshare and Studentsummary to find useful study materials and I also upload what I thought useful. Wikipedia is also an excellent way to search professional informations.Based on AJAX and similar to Google Maps, we have Urmap which is built by users. I use Last.fm to share my favourite bands with my friends and find new records and concerts information on specific groups. I’m interested in taking photos very much and Flikr is my favourite picture sharing website, from which I find a lot of photograp lovers who have similar taste as I do and we share our opinions and different shooting styles with each other. From this happy sharing experience, I learnt a lot of photograph technology and made great progress in my skills. When I feel tired of study, I will go to Youtube and watch the most viewed videos and also my subscriptions. Sometimes I shoot video clips in my happy life and upload it on youtube and share the happy moment with my friends. Besides that, I'm a fan of world warcraft and I also make a lot friends from the game. The best example of social media technology is Facebook where we can share everything with our friends worldwide. It’s more like a virtual world on the Internet and more and more young people rely on it.
The trouble around social media technology is all around privacy security. It seems that nowadays we expose ourselves too much and give out too much information, which makes it easier to be traced by other people. In this way, there is risk for not only virtual world but also our real life safety. Google and Facebook has gained incredible amounts of information of everyone in the world. If this information is in better use, then we can be better customized served. However, if someone use it badly, it will be a huge disater.
What will be on after social media technology? Telecommunication network, television network and internet will become combined together.Imagine the day come when we can enjoy work and life with only one terminal. However, I think what I want is to get information I’m in need of immediately and don’t waste too much time searching on waste information. Too much information and too much social network to handle is also a big problem to face today. I still believe that technology comes from human beings mind and the best thing is technology is designed to serve us better instead of make us feel much pressure.
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I am agree with what you said, the main purpose for me to use these social medias is to share my feelings with my friends or family, let them know what I am doing recently; and also interact with my friends, know what they are doing, etc. It shortens the distance between my friends and me. It also helps me to know new friends.
ReplyDeleteAnd it seems we have many common habits; I also use those websites which you used, for instance, youtube, facebook, flikr, etc. and I guess not only you and me, most netizens have these common habits.
As you talked about the privacy security, it is really a problem nowadays. Private stuffs like photos, articles are misused by others without allowed. Rumors are spread out without thinking. There is one example, few days ago, there was a film star from South Korea killed herself, just because she felt much pressure from what rumors’ talk in those internet forums or blogs. As you said, if someone uses these social medias on bad purpose, it will be a disaster.
Qiong Jia
Yea, exactly, how many social networks can we handle? How many communities do we have to join to keep tracks of our friends, all of our friends have different networks and as soon as a new community becomes popular they migrate there and of course we have to follow, we cant be one of those who get left behind right. I admire those few people who have the strength to stand out and say no to the pressure, those who boycott all of these social technologies. But what happens then if we stop using these technologies, we become handicapped the world stops working and we don’t know how we going to survive. Its like we cant live with all of these networks but we can’t live without them either, so hats the left to do. We can keep living in the “Flintstone” time or we can move in to the unknown scary future of networking and digital age.
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