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Social Networking 1

// January 10th, 2010 // 3 Comments » // Internet

I’ve recently had to do a big paper on social networking sites and society, focusing on net neutrality. Interesting stuff, I’ll post it up every now and then in sections. Here’s the intro:

More recently, our society has been struck by a social revolution that has taken almost every aspect of life to a new level.  The way we communicate, find friends, find soul mates, find jobs, has all been transformed, thanks to the Internet and social networking sites. However, the Internet is not yet as accessible around the world. In North America, there are over 230 million Internet users, while in Africa there are less than 30 million Internet users. The Internet began to rise in activity during the early 1990’s and exponentially rose each year thereafter.  It still is! It completely changed how the average person communicates and how they deals with commerce. Small blogs and companies rely heavily on the Internet. Furthermore, bandwidth (traffic) limits are being lowered because these social networking sites are attractive to almost any age group. They simplify our lives, but as with most technology; advantages come with disadvantages. Never before have internet service providers struggled to provide fast, reliable internet access to everyone.

W(:-o)ah It’s a Big Blue Arrow

// December 13th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Blog

I haven’t done a post regarding the blog itself, so I figured I would do so now =D.

E-mail Notifications? Yes! See that orange box on the top right? It’s called an RSS feed. Click on it. RSS Feeds are the future of the Internet. Pretty soon, we will use one site to “feed” us information from multiple websites. Why go visit all your websites individually when you can have them all in once place? When you click on that, you can Get Dans Blog delivered by email. Click that and you can get updates to your e-mail whenever I post.

Can I post on your blog? I’ve had people ask me if they can write on my blog recently. I was hesitant at first, but then I opened up to the idea. You must register, there is a link on the right side as well. All registered users can comment and post. I have to accept your blog post though before it goes on the main page. When you post, your name will be shown so people don’t confuse it for something I wrote. You can blog about whatever you want, if  I like it or if it’s good, I’ll accept it and it will go on the homepage with your name on it!

Can I comment on your blog? Hell ya! Comments are what keep me writing and posting stuff. I want to know people actually read this stuff. So comment. I tried making the commenting process as easy as possible and as a incentive to comment, I’ve made it possible to see who comments a lot and if you want you can have your name link to a website, either your blog or facebook.  P.S. you can also include a video or audio comment. *drum roll *

Got an idea or comment? See at the top the word link? Ya, click that. You can write stuff in it and I will see it. If you got a topic idea or a random comment or suggestion thats where you do it.

And thanks to everyone who reads my blog. It’s a good feeling knowing that someone out there is reading your stuff and that your message is getting across. What started out as a fun random thing to do, became something that is part of me. I like writing and I like putting random stuff up for people to read. What a job. ;P

You got a GPS or A Phone? Then Read ;P

// September 11th, 2009 // No Comments » // Random

I got this forwarded to me, I felt like I needed to share. Thieves and criminals are not always dumb!
GPS
A couple of weeks ago a friend told me that someone she knew had their car broken into while they were at a football game. Their car was parked on the green which was adjacent to the football stadium and specially allotted to football fans. Things stolen from the car included a garage door remote control, some money and a GPS which had been prominently mounted on the dashboard. When the victims got home, they found that their house had been ransacked and just about everything worth anything had been stolen. The thieves had used the GPS to guide them to the house. They then used the garage remote control to open the garage door and gain entry to the house. The thieves knew the owners were at the football game, they knew what time the game was scheduled to finish and so they knew how much time they had to clean out the house. It would appear that they had brought a truck to empty the house of its contents. Something to consider if you have a GPS – don’t put your home address in it. Put a nearby address (like a store or gas station) so you can still find your way home if you need to, but no one else would know where you live if your GPS were stolen.

MOBILE PHONES

This lady has now changed her habit of how she lists her names on her mobile phone after her handbag was stolen. Her handbag, which contained her cell phone, credit card, wallet… Etc…was stolen. 20 minutes later when she called her hubby, from a pay phone telling him what had happened, hubby says ‘I received your text asking about our PIN number and I’ve replied with it a little while ago.’ When they rushed down to the bank, the bank staff told them all the money was already withdrawn. The thief had actually used the stolen cell phone to text ‘hubby’ in the contact list and got hold of the pin number. Within 20 minutes he had withdrawn all the money from their bank account.