Since we have different personas and ways of behaving in different groups of people, what happens if different groups of people are observing you at the same time? For example, someone might not know how to behave if they were at a restaurant with their friends and they noticed that their parents were seated at the table next to them. This is phenomenon is called “context collapse.” On social media, context collapse is a common concern, since on a social networking site you might be connected to very different people (family, different groups of friends, co-workers, etc.). Additionally, something that was shared within one context (like a private message), might get reposted in another context (publicly posted elsewhere).

Many users were upset that what they had been watching wasn’t authentic. That is, users believed the channel was presenting itself as true events about a real girl, and it wasn’t that at all. Though, even after users discovered it was fictional, the channel continued to grow in popularity.

for Loops# for loops let us perform an action or a set of actions for all of the items in a list. So, if we wanted to go through all the the users that liked our tweet and display a message for each one, we could do this: for user in users_who_liked_our_post: display("Yay! " + user + " liked our post!") Copy to clipboard 'Yay! @pretend_user_1 liked our post!' Copy to clipboard 'Yay! @pretend_user_2 liked our post!' Copy to clipboard 'Yay! @pretend_user_3 liked our post!'

5.3.2. Social Networking Services# 2003 saw the launch of several popular social networking services: Friendster, Myspace, and LinkedIn. These were websites where the primary purpose was to build personal profiles and create a network of connections with other people, and communicate with them. Facebook was launched in 2004 and soon put most of its competitors out of business, while YouTube, launched in 2005 became a different sort of social networking site built around video.

In addition to representing data with different data storage methods, computers can also let you add additional constraints on what can be saved. So, for example, you might limit the length of a tweet to 280 characters, even though the computer can store longer strings. There are many places these constraints might be used such as: for an age (integer), only allow ages between 0 and 120 for a country name (string), have a pre-set list of valid country names for a legal name (string), disallow emojis

Sounds are represented as the electric current needed to move a speaker’s diaphragm back and forth over time to make the specific sound waves. The electric current is saved as a number, and those electric current numbers are saved at each time point, so the sound information is saved as a list of numbers. Fig. 4.12 A computer representation of the sound of Kyle saying “this.”# Fig. 4.13 How sound information turns into an electric signal, which then works with a magnet to push and pull on a diaphragm inside a speaker to create physical sound waves. Microphones do this process in exactly the reverse, the sound waves in the air make the speaker diaphragm go back and forth, making an electric current in the wire which gets measured and saved by the computer.