Saturday, May 5, 2012

Kastle Huffaker:

This is called the Facebook Song. Not only do i think this song is really funny, but it brings up a good point! This brings up a negative impact of Facebook and how consumed so many different people get by Facebook. Adding and removing friends, commenting and poking people, and noticing how annoying other people's statuses can get and how a lot of it is irrelevant information that a lot of us don't really care or need to know about. We may not think about all the silly things we do or say on Facebook, but it just shows how wrapped up people can get (myself included) in this virtual world of stalking people's profiles, and "chatting" (which isn't even actually chatting) with five people at once for hours at a time. Why does this online world get so attaching? When did people even start caring what you said on Facebook? 
Posted by: Kastle Huffaker

 Facebook open graph API is now available. This means that Facebook and other websites can use our social information to customize each visitor's experience. If we "like" the movie Fired Up on IMDB it will show up automatically on Facebook for your friends to see and for other partnering websites to use our data to customize what we see based on our "likes" and preferences. Everything is becoming personalized for us. By using one site aka Facebook, people become the center of the web, and it intertwines us more into this apparatus. Is this a bad or good thing? Is it unsafe for Facebook and partnering websites to know so much?