Week 8

Social networking, well I know some people that could not live without it.  Actually this person is addicted to it and has, in my view, ruined here life.  Social networking was just a bit of fun to start with, around 2005.  Now it's serous business, and people can and do get heart.  All photos uploaded  on facebook are the possession of facebook for ever.  Also any information we put on there sites are used to target advertising back at us.

Week 7

How do we know what’s right or wrong from one person, professional or not.  I am talking about academic encyclopaedias, opposed to social networking.   How far the internet has come with Blogs, Wikis and social media, all makes the internet democratic.  All creating a read and write web, that will change the way we communicate forever.  Wikis bring all ideas of the initial Web together, with Vannever Bush idea in 1945 that a machine could retrieve all human knowledge.  Connecting all human knowledge with associated patterns in which Wikis use extremely well with hypertext links.

Wikis also include Tim Berners-Lee dilemma that in the initial Web browser did not include writing and editing functions.

This freedom on the World Wide Web has raised some big issues.  Some of these are how reliable collective intelligence is.  Though in 2004 Alex Halavais had placed deliberate errors in Wikipedia that had self fixed themself thanks to the design of Wikipedia.  Where do we go wrong, Aboriginals can pass information and history on from centuries ago that is accurate as a book. A complexed society that we live in spread Web bugs and misleading information through social media, why?