The teens that I met genuinely care about their privacy, but how they understand and enact it may not immediately resonate or appear logical to adults
Many parents of teenagers today grew up in a different so called world back then. They didnt have the technology or environment kids have today, making them not really understand how to let their kids have the privacy and freedom they want and need.
While growing up, I feel that you need to give your child some privacy and not always be so on their back about their personal life because then they will feel the need to hide things from you. Your child can seem like they dress appropriate before leaving the house, but then feel the need to change because they don't want you to yell at them. Giving them the freedom but also know the limits is probably the way to help get close to your teenager who isn't actually a baby anymore.
While many may have posted it to show support for gay marriage equality, others may have placed it in their profile to follow the crowd — many other friends were doing it, so they joined in.
I think this line says alot about how people go about something that is not considered "normal" from past generations. Today, I believe being in a relationship with the same sex meanwhile my grandparents don't really understand or agree with it. People might share their thoughts on facebook on how they support or not support gay marriage which will lead to arguments or conversations, but people might just share what someone else thinks just because everyone seems to be doing it
clicking on ‘Like’ or tweeting about a political subject – though long derided as ‘slacktivism,’ may well turn out to be one of the more potent impacts from digital tools in the long run, as widespread use of such semi-public symbolic micro-actions can slowly reshape how people make sense of their values and their politics
Today, people consider "liking" a post, tweet or picture to be something a lot more important than it should be. Even though sometimes a certain amount of people liking a picture can turn it into getting that picture to be known all over the world. So I have a love-hate relationship with how liking a certain social media post can turn out.
Over the next 20 years software will be embedded in everything, from refrigerators to cars to medical devices.
Its scary how far technology has already come and how much its going to expand in further years. No one will really know or understand until it happens, but it can only go more high tech from here. Thinking about what our software in our computers, phones, and even TV today, in 10 years all that is going to be 10x more advanced and a total different way of using it, like they said our refrigerators, cars and medical devices will all have different software.
Today, technology is generating more information about us than ever before, and will increasingly do so, making a map of everything we do, changing the balance of power between us, businesses and governments.
Whatever an individual searches on the internet can be searched back to you. Websites can now know your recent searches and make ads on the next website you go on to remind you what you were just looking at. In a way this is very cool but also extremely creepy that the technology can do this all by itself. But gives hope that if anything bad was going to happen and was portrayed on the internet, government has the power to track who is leading it.
Talking about memes and viral media places an emphasis on the replication of the original idea, which fails to consider the everyday reality of communication — that ideas get transformed, repurposed, or distorted as they pass from hand to hand, a process which has been accelerated as we move into network culture.
Everything society talks about gets distorted in someway. People can take a definition or a situation and change in to the way they want and then spread that idea. Memes and viral media places does replicate the idea of everyday reality of communication because no one really understands it.
As the discussion continued, it became clearer and clearer that viral media, like art and pornography, lies in the eye of the beholder
I think this line is extremely accurate. No one knows that a specific video shared on youtube will be a hit, but it all depends on the people views on it. One person might love it and another person might hate it and never want to see it again.