Marc Serrano - 2nd comment

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/pda/2011/mar/12/sxsw-2011-facebook-photos

This is an article from “The Guardian” an important British newspaper. It talks about the reality that a lot of images that people share or posts at their Facebook can be used by other people to do advertisements or another things. Sam Odio, the Facebook's photos product manager, talked about it saying that the photos that are uploaded in Facebook are more focus on storytelling than in the quality. Odio thinks that they are trying to prevent business having free rein over users but adding that business are users, so they wouldn't use photos of people to do advertisements because it doesn't really benefice them. But I personally thinks that in case that would be true that Facebook would be using photos of people to do advertisements at other parts of the world they wouldn't say anything.

Otherwise, I really understand what Odio says when he explains that when they created facebook they didn't realize the importance of facial recognition for anybody who doesn't belong to your friend's list and and also about privacy.

At the beginning of Facebook it was a really simply application but with the years have became more complicated because of the inclusion of more functions and characteristics, so it is more complex and people don't really care about the privacy configuration because they don't really know how it works.

It is a reality that have been people who discovered that in another part of the world there is a photo of him/her in an advertisement without him/her permission but facebook really have some privacy function to avoid it so people have to be more attentive to this because if you personalize the privacy of your profile anybody will can use you photos.

Marc Serrano - 1st comment

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/the-most-influential-people-on-twitter/

This is an article from the web of “The New York Times” and wroten by David Leonhardt, a columnist of this newspaper. This article is a study which highlight that the persons who have more followers at Twitter are Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Britney Spears, all of them are singers. However the author of this column makes a reflection about the difference between the number of followers that somebody can have and the influence that can has over this followers or other people.

In fact, being famous and so known doesn't mean that your opinion is gonna has more importance or influence than another people that are experts in something, for example in communication, like TV host/hostess, sacrificed athletes or even writers.

A singer can be so amazing famous but he/she doesn't have to be a very good communicator neither has good and amazing ideas or thoughts with a very big social impact. For example, the famous Spanish singer, David Bisbal, was so criticized because of the post that shared about the problems of Egypt in the last weeks because he trivialized so much about this theme that is really sensitive nowadays.

Coming back to the article of “The New York Times”, the author makes this reflexion in base of the point that to measure the influence of Twitter, “The Times Magazine” collaborated with an independent research group “Twitalyzer” which did a study of that.

All of this means that it doesn't mind who are you or from where you come if you have brilliant ideas with which you can cause an important impact to the twitters. In my opinion Twitter is a very good tool with a big social impact nowadays and it is perfect to share any kind of idea or thought which arrives quickly and easy to a big number of persons.

Juan 4rd comment

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/new-phones-that-put-facebook-front-and-center/?ref=facebookinc

This article from the New York Times talks about the evolution of facebook. Marc Zuckerberg explains that he does not have any intention of bringing to the market an official Facebook-branded phone. Facebook is no longer just a social network website, is a company that is investing in all the technology they can. At the Mobile World Congress all the mobile companies present their newest products. An example of this will be HTC have presented two new cell phones that have incorporated Facebook applications. Other such as INQ Mobile has their own Facebook-devices.

As I said before and Frank Meehan remarks "Facebook is really more than a social network " because is making companies create products with the name of Facebook. The prize of the phones depends if you want them with a contract with the company or free. The "problem" of this kind of cell phones are, that you have to pay an extra bill to have wireless. If you have wireless on your phone, you can access to the internet and with that connect to Facebook. This is not the latest technology on cell phones, it is also an excuse to create a new type of market. This phones keeps you updated all the time. It means that when someone talks you on your social network, appears on the top of the screen with an alert.

Facebook said on his own website which in addition to the phones showed cased in Barcelona, more companies will create Facebook phones.

Juan 3rd comment

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/for-nba-fans-a-way-to-play-along-on-facebook/?ref=facebookinc

The National Basketball Asociation (NBA) has created a game to play along on facebook. This game called NBA legend, is about to create a player and get in a team simulating a career. The fun part of the game is that you will play against the people in your network. In that case it will be a fun game because in that case it won't be just a game, it will be a theme of discussion. This game was released during the All-Star week wich had a nice response by the media. As many people use the Twitter and Facebook many professionals players use them to promote their lives and to be follow by the crowd. They know they are famous and they use the social network as they live the day a day.

If we compare Facebook and Twitter right now, twitter is having a great response. The NBA has a very large number of people following there website. Facebook is not just a social network as you can see, it is also a website where you can follow people, get entertainment and have fun with it. Facebook not only has the NBA game has a ton more. The NBA legend is a way of trying to keep the people close to the NBA even when there are not any games on. It is also a way of trying to catch their attention on those things that they arre showing on the website.

It seems this kind of games have a promising future.

Juan 2nd comment

http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2011/03/28/2011-03-28_teens_who_use_facebook_social_media_may_suffer_from_new_condition_called_faceboo.html

This article from the DAILY NEWS, a newspaper from USA, talks us about the risk of social network such as facebook, twitter, myspace, etc. The article says that facebook not only takes you time of study or work, it also can be worse. There is a new problem dubbed "Facebook depression" that obviously only the teenagers who use facebook can be affect by can suffer. This is a problem that can suffer the teenagers that spend more time worried on their facebook profile than worried about the real life. It may sound crazy, but there are this kind of people. It is truem that Facebook can create a false reality of you, but that is a risk you gotta deal with. Everybody wants to be "perfect" in some way, and Facebook helps you to do that. You just have to think a little bit. As the article says, you can do the comments you want, be tagged on the pictures you want and erase the ones you do not like, so you can be pretty or handsome in all of them. Spend time texting, using the email or facebook can cause demage on the teenagers life's and in consequence their moods. What I understand with this article, is that teenagers if they do not control their lifes might be expossed to that problem called "Facebook depression"

Juan 1st comment

http://mashable.com/2010/10/07/cnn-news-study/

This new talks about how people are getting used to share the "information" they´ve got from the news via social network. I think that is a positive comment, because it does not matter how you get the information while you get it. You twice more news through social network than you do on a news website. It also says that a recent study from the Pew Research Center revealed that social network has made increase the consumption of news readers. An interest point is that it depends on what country you live, you will share with those people you have on your social network account the content of the new varies. It says that the European and the Americans used to share thos thing that might be useful for their friends. I had to add that this comment is obvious, because when you share something with the other people is because you wanna share it with them. But on the other hand, the Asians are more likely to share things that are related with the religion.

In conclusion, what this text is talking about, is that believe it or not, the social network are into our lives right now. And nowadays everyone knows how to handdle it, people are sharign news, information, photos, videos, links... and we hope it stays like this and nobody gets damaged.

INTRODUCTION

Hello everybody! The name of this blog is "social networkings". We have chosen this theme because it is a real hot subject that nowadays everybody uses for multiple activities, but specially for leisure and personal life. With the social networks you can share information, your thoughts, pictures, videos, and comment other pictures or videos from another person. All of this you can do it instantly, whenever and wherever you want because actually you can use any social network in the mobile phone, pads or laptops.

Also this social networks are useful because if you know somebody you can search her/him at facebook directory and you have 90% of possibilities to find her/him because nowadays everybody have a profile at facebook, specially young people. This is like a chain because your contacts bring you another contacts and this is endless. It's so useful too because you can be in contact with people who you haven't seen for years and lives in the other part of the world.

Social networks are useful too because you can create events to send to all of your friends and they can put if they will assist or not, so lots of discos use it to calculate approximately how much people is going to go somewhere to a party. It means that by social networks you can be informed of all the parties and events of the month. Also some business and companies use social networks to announce themselves and for people recognize them.

At this blog we will try to comment and analyze some articles and videos that talk about the social networks to improve what we know about them. We hope that you like it! Hugs!