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Class of 2019 Questions for Facebook

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On Friday, 5/10 we went to visit the offices of Facebook. They are without question one of the largest and most powerful companies on the planet. Here's some current statistics : 68% of Americans use Facebook . ... Only half of American teens use Facebook . ... 35% of Facebook's ad audience is under 25. ... The number of American Facebook users aged 65+ has doubled to 41% ... Roughly 10 percent of Facebook users are American. ... 1.1 billion Facebook users speak English. A few months ago we explored the complexities of Facebook when we watched the Frontline documentary that detailed the meteoric rise of the social media giant. For this post, I want you to play the role of a journalist and come up with three questions (5 points each) that you would have asked given the opportunity. Take a look at the statistics and the results of our previous surveys to inform your questions. Facebook questionairre part i: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1dvJtVJbd4EW_k9EMHAhlU...
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Bravery Not Perfection

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Gender inequality is an enormous problem in our society.  Reshma Saujani Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, former NYC deputy public advocate, and the author of Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder (Currency, 2019), shares her insights into achieving success through facing the risk of failure. https://www.wnyc.org/story/succeed-through-failing  For this post please complete this survey: https://goo.gl/forms/A8RTRctJR8tCS91r1 https://goo.gl/forms/A8RTRctJR8tCS91r1
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Memes

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For our final blog post of Q2 we turn to meme's. Meme's are a cultural phenomenon that evolved with the ability to add text to images and distribute them online... For this post I want you to put your creativity/humor/culture hat on and design your own meme. Your subject can be about anything but try to connect your meme to a subject your studying. For example here's a school/history meme idea... Most important, you must respect the guidelines for blogging that we setup in the beginning of the year. NO DEGRADING CONTENT. You may not make fun of, mock or slur anyone Create your meme using correct spelling, grammar and punctuation Never reveal personal information about yourself Never disrespect someone. As well, do not copy a meme.  Come up with your own original idea using one of the following two resources.  https://imgflip.com/memegenerator http://wigflip.com/automotivator/ There are a few options for sharing the meme on our blog. If there i...
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Privacy and your Christmas Gifts?

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Why does privacy matter? We've been discussing the implications of privacy and it's impact on our daily lives. We discussed what's currently going on in China with their development of a citizen rating system. Seems incredibly extreme, but the prevailing thinking among us is that it won't happen here. Or will it. By default many of the products we use today are listening to us. Whether it's through our devices's camera, microphone or by location (GPS tracking). All this data is being used by companies and we have almost no control over it. So before we make our loved one's lives more complicated this Christmas let's do a little research and show that we care about their privacy. Follow this link and take a look at the products listed: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/ For this post I want you to research  two products that you either currently have or were thinking of giving someone else for Christmas and click on it and revea...
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Q2 Icebreaker Post

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Here’s a simple query of your personal life:  What are you reading?   What are you watching? What are you playing? For our first blog post of Q2, please answer each of these 3 questions in the comment section. Please include the question. Do not include school work.  You can have multiple answers to each question.  I'll get started:  What am I reading? Vineland, Thomas Pynchon What am I watching?  Narcos What am I playing?  Bass guitar
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The Hidden Web

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The internet is so big it's sometimes overwhelming. According to  World Wide Websize , there are over 1.8 billion websites that have been indexed. Dig a little deeper and we find that there are levels to the internet. Surface web  is anything that can be indexed by a typical search engine such as Google. Which according to some experts is around 4% of the actual Internet.  https://techlog360.com/darknet-vs-dark-web-vs-deep-web-vs-surface-web/ The Deep web  refers to data that is stored in website databases. Content that is not available by clicking on a link. Information you can find by searching through a website, such as a Government database or library. This is estimated to be 400-500 times the size of the Surface web.  http://bigdata2.brightplanet.com/your-guide-to-the-deep-web The Dark web  or dark net is designed specifically for annonymity and can only be access through private networks such as the  Tor browser . It cannot be acce...
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Scrolling through your life

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"Selfie harm: Effects on mood and body image in young women.  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1740144517305326 Our first blog post focused on the digital literacy aspect of social media. Learning how to be more conscious of fake information. In this post I want to turn to the psychological impact that social media is especially having on young women. Read up to 1.2 from the link above (Read the Abstract, Introduction, Social Media and body image and Self-presentation and impression management). It's a comprehensive study on the impact selfie's have on our self esteem and how we view ourselves. Why is it so hard to discipline ourselves around our devices?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgkvTRz_Alo Important terms:  Narcissim is defined as: extreme selfishness, with a grandiose view of one's own talents and a craving for admiration, as characterizing a personality type. Dopamine (DA, a contraction of 3,4-dihydroxyphenethylamine) is an orga...
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