However, what inevitably emerged in these conversations were employee takes on Friendster’s death, as interviewees recounted what, in their interpretation, ultimately signaled the platform’s end.
i think this is helpful for future social media platforms.
Like other dying and dead platforms, whether MySpace, Google+, Vine, or others, Friendster was labelled as dead but continued to persist for years past its assumed expiration.
Sometimes people still enjoy using their favorite social media app, but social media is always evolving.
For all its success, however, Friendster was quickly plagued by slow load times, managerial mishap and ascendant competitors as it tracked upward on its proverbial hockey stick of growth. In the mid-2000s
sometimes when things grow to fast they fail even faster and it seems like they also weren't able to keep up with it.
Advertisements for selling service employed drawings, slogans, and texts designed to make the uses of the telephone-not just the technology-attractive. (
The evolution of advertising grew withe the advancements in technology.
In 1895, Bell's average residential rate was $4.66 a month (13 per cent of an average worker's monthly wages). Rates remained high, especially in the larger cities (the 1894 Manhattan rate for a two party line was $10.41 a month).4
This was basically the start of phone bills, during this time.
Yet, the telephone industry did not always promote such sociability; for decades it was more likely to discourage it.
The way we use telephones now are mostly for personal use, it interesting to know it was not always use for this purpose.
“Women have performed more than their part in this great struggle for democracy, freedom, and liberty,”
It is interesting to learn about how woman got to where we are today. Woman had to go through so much to get the woman today the freedom we have now.
Even so, officers like Johnston still hoped there was some way to avoid using women.
I wonder why some men were so against women being apart of the workforce, when they benefit it overall.
Secretary of War Newton Baker disliked the idea so intensely that he didn’t even want to build toilets for females on army bases.
I knew it took awhile for women to earn their rights, but it is crazy to see how unequal it really was between men and women.
“Shall we admit them only to a partnership of sacrifice and suffering and toil and not to a partnership of privilege and of right?”2
I agree with this statement.
American women became soldiers before they became voters.
It is crazy to me that woman were not given the rights to vote before they were able to put their lives at risk for their country.
The telephone and the phonograph, which already have done what seems to be almost miraculous work, may in time be made the means of conveying a message directly from the telegraph instrument to the person to whom it is addressed. But, until this is accomplished, we must acknowledge our dependence on the messenger-boys and fairly recognize them as person of business.
Its is crazy to think all of this had to be done to get to where we are today when it comes to technology.
ou can see, by what you have read, that a telegraph-boy does not lead a lazy life. His hours of duty, if he is a day boy, are from 7 A.M. until 6:30 P.M.
Im guessing if these boys were young then they did not go to school.
The distribution of the messages among the boys is made as follows: Each boy, as he comes into the office in the morning, receives what is called a "delivery sheet,"--that is, a sheet of paper with blanks in which to write the numbers of the messages, the time of leaving the office, the name and address of the receiver, and the time of the messenger's return.
This was like their way of clocking in for work.
Now, do you know how far a boy will have to walk in a day, delivering these messages and returning to the office? Not less than nineteen miles! And this does not include going up and down stairs, which is no small matter in the business streets, where offices are found all the way from the ground floor to sixth and seventh stories. You may be sure that, to telegraph-boys, elevators are welcome machi
I wonder if this was one of the easier jobs to get during this time and if there were better paying jobs for these boys or one of the only few.
he number of boys employed by this company varies with the season of the year; for with telegraph companies as with other kinds of business, there are busy times and dull times. T
I wonder what were the ages of these boys who were employed.
Some, like the news-boys and boot-blacks, are capitalists, doing business on their own account. Others, like some of the telegraph-boys, act as agents, receiving a sort of commission or percentage on the business which they do. Others still, like office-boys and cash-boys, are simply clerks, paid to render a particular kind of service.
It is a system or also a team.
The story of Dr. Brinkley encapsulates the way that radio became a focal point for questions of nations and borders, knowledges and identities, authoritative power and the threat of uncontrolled populism. It is a story that is omitted or downplayed in most accounts of U.S. broadcasting because it concerns culture literally at the margins of dominant history:
Radio plays an important role in documenting history.
Finally, in this book we will look at radio and television as one of our nation’s primary sites of cultural negotiation, dispute, confrontation, and consensus, a place where all of these things—nation, power, culture, history, identity—come together in a frequently infuriating and always fascinating mélange of sounds, images, and endless discussion. Just to kick things off, our second Connection looks at a particularly exotic example of broadcasting’s “woollier” side to examine what happens when radio, populism, power, knowledge, and nation engage in a border skirmish.
Media plays and important role in discussing and keeping things documented about history.
The past does not exist independently of historiography—for how could we ever know it except through what is written or somehow preserved? But neither could history ever be written without careful use of clues to the past, or it would cross the border into fiction.
History is a balance of peoples words and factual evidence to prove it.
ather Knows Best (CBS/NBC 1954–1962), Leave It to Beaver (CBS/ABC 1957–1963), The Donna Reed Show (ABC 1958–1966), The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (ABC 1952– 1966), Make Room for Daddy (ABC/CBS 1953–1964), Dennis the Menace (CBS 1959–1963), and Beulah (ABC 1950–1953) a
Television influenced and mirrored the way families were expected to act and look like during that time.
In short, we can’t. And part of the intellectual heritage of twentieth century postmodernism is acknowledgment of this fact. T
History can be learned but it isnt as easy as learning math or english, it takes time and patience but it is important.
The novel is also a meditation on the changes that twentieth-century culture and “progress” are making on traditional ways of life, how a shift in one direction can cut off another, and how each “improvement” comes along with possibilities for ruin.
The connection between the past and the present is important.
Work in history also improves basic writing and speaking skills and is directly relevant to many of the analytical requirements in the public and private sectors, where the capacity to identify, assess, and explain trends is essential.
Learning History allows us to grow intellectually. Ive never thought about that.
a study not only of certifiable heroes, the great men and women of history who successfully worked through moral dilemmas, but also of more ordinary people who provide lessons in courage, diligence, or constructive protest.
Learning history can help humans not repeat the same mistakes. We learn the lessons are ancestors went through, so then we dont have to go through them ourselves.
. Only through studying history can we grasp how things change; only through history can we begin to comprehend the factors that cause change; and only through history can we understand what elements of an institution or a society persist despite change.
We have to know the past in order to grow and move forward and improve.
How can we evaluate war if the nation is at peace—unless we use historical materials? How can we understand genius, the influence of technological innovation, or the role that beliefs play in shaping family life, if we don't use what we know about experiences in the past?
In order for us to understand the human race, we must look into the past. The past helps prepare us for the future and to continue to improve. It helps us continue traditions and legacies and gives humans a better understanding of who they are.