I've had an idea for quite some time that uses various different types of social media. It utilizes the purpose of LinkedIn, the exposure into one's personal life like Facebook, and the importance of media like music and videos of YouTube.
The goal is to showcase one's talents in a professional and a personal manner. People can post up videos of their comedy acts, acting routines, dancing, and clips of their music. Instead of just posting it up, I'm hoping that everyones posts correlates with what's going on in the world. For instance, on Facebook, during big events lie inaugural speeches and big games, people will voice their opinions or thoughts on what's going on. I'm hoping through this type of social media, people can perhaps put up jokes regarding what's going on, or act out what just happened.
Instead of just simple posts like on Twitter and Facebook, users will broadcast their talents to the world, and people will be able to connect regardless of their interest in the talent because it relates to recent news. With so many outlets out there like Vines to post up videos, Instagram to post photos, and Twitter to write dialogue, I feel there should be a form of social media that incorporates everything into one. Making a series of connected blogs that connect ones talents to what's going on in the world.
Thursday, July 3, 2014
P2P
File sharing is the act of sharing files with other parties online. File types can include documents, media files, and electronic books. P2P file sharing is just an extension of that. P2P file sharing is file sharing that occurs over P2P networks. Members will join networks and have access to download certain files that other members over the network have. Downloads may become faster over some networks when more than one peer has the file. The success of P2P networks lies in the peers sharing the files they download from others, constantly improving the rate at which members afterwords can download files.
There are currently many P2P file sharing networks. One of the most popular is BitTorrent. BitTorrent was estimated to have as many active users as YouTube and FaceBook combined in 2009. BitTorrent allows for P2P file sharing of large files such as movies, through computer files known as torrents. These torrents contain metadata, or data about other data, on files and folders that are meant to be shared over P2P networks.
One very popular P2P networking file is movies. Although popular, it's illegal and very costly for the movie and entertainment industry. In an article called "Digital Pirates Winning Battle With Studios" in the New York Times, the authors describe just how costly P2P sharing of movies and show episodes can be. They use the example of series called Heroes. Each episode gets an estimated 10 million views. Through P2P sharing, viewers online view it 5 million times illegally.
Although very helpful, P2P can be dangerous and harmful as well.
There are currently many P2P file sharing networks. One of the most popular is BitTorrent. BitTorrent was estimated to have as many active users as YouTube and FaceBook combined in 2009. BitTorrent allows for P2P file sharing of large files such as movies, through computer files known as torrents. These torrents contain metadata, or data about other data, on files and folders that are meant to be shared over P2P networks.
One very popular P2P networking file is movies. Although popular, it's illegal and very costly for the movie and entertainment industry. In an article called "Digital Pirates Winning Battle With Studios" in the New York Times, the authors describe just how costly P2P sharing of movies and show episodes can be. They use the example of series called Heroes. Each episode gets an estimated 10 million views. Through P2P sharing, viewers online view it 5 million times illegally.
Although very helpful, P2P can be dangerous and harmful as well.
Privacy
Privacy is an issue that is becoming more of a hot-button issue with the explosive growth of new media. It doesn't take much to find debates on how social media websites such as Facebook & Twitter are reacting to privacy concerns. Why are people so concerned? Well for one, new media becomes an outlet for people to expose different parts of their life to the public. Usually, it's in a controlled environment, where only the people you want to see the posts may see it.
There are multiple problems to this however. The first problem being the open-ness of the internet and today's digital world. Although what you post may seem to be private, there are usually ways in which people that want to view a post or picture of yours can view it. Despite someone's best attempts, it's hard to prevent someone from getting their hands on your information and this can be disastrous. For one, somebody can quickly grab information such as hometown and birthday, information which can be used for malicious intentions such as fraud. In addition, one can study behavioral patterns for other ill intentions. One can just check one's profile to see if they've checked into some place other than home, perhaps in preparation of a robbery.
Another problem that rises is how the host of this new media chooses to utilize your information. Regardless of how tight you set your privacy settings to, the host, such as Facebook and Twitter, will always have access to your information. You become a sitting duck to their ambitions. For one, Facebook utilizes your information and search patterns to come up with targeted advertisements. This may not be welcomed by people with Facebook accounts.
In conclusion, although new media allows for many benefits, privacy is a huge issue that comes with all the good. One must be aware of his behavior and actions on new media, because it's usually available for all to see.
There are multiple problems to this however. The first problem being the open-ness of the internet and today's digital world. Although what you post may seem to be private, there are usually ways in which people that want to view a post or picture of yours can view it. Despite someone's best attempts, it's hard to prevent someone from getting their hands on your information and this can be disastrous. For one, somebody can quickly grab information such as hometown and birthday, information which can be used for malicious intentions such as fraud. In addition, one can study behavioral patterns for other ill intentions. One can just check one's profile to see if they've checked into some place other than home, perhaps in preparation of a robbery.
Another problem that rises is how the host of this new media chooses to utilize your information. Regardless of how tight you set your privacy settings to, the host, such as Facebook and Twitter, will always have access to your information. You become a sitting duck to their ambitions. For one, Facebook utilizes your information and search patterns to come up with targeted advertisements. This may not be welcomed by people with Facebook accounts.
In conclusion, although new media allows for many benefits, privacy is a huge issue that comes with all the good. One must be aware of his behavior and actions on new media, because it's usually available for all to see.
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