Social Networking, Good or Garbarge

With the development of social networking site, people have the opportunity to keep in touch more than ever.  The extended availability of contact can have its advantages and its disadvantages.  With these sites, it is now easier to keep in touch with your best friend that moved away in the second grade, who is dating and fighting, or who just generally hates life at the moment.  Unfortunately, the useful knowledge that you may gain from these sites is heavily outweighed by the useless junk that it filling up your feed.  Anymore, you see forwarded memes, political opinion “complaining” and general garbage.  You also have to watchful of plethora of game invited and spam that will inevitably be sent to you by a “hacked” or “bot” profile.   

 

So in the end, a social networking can be useful in gain information and making connections with other place but you have to learn how to filter through all the useless trash that is posted by other people.

Copy, Right?

 

 



The internet is like the ocean; it’s plentiful and everyone does a little fishing.  In the present day, the internet is a vast source of knowledge and information.  If you have an image you wanna use in an ad, you can go to Google and copy and paste it; if there is a video you wanna use to presentation, you go to Youtube and just embed it into it.  The use of copyrighted work without permission is so easy and so common place that it is just second nature.  In our society now-a-days, we live in a culture of rip-offs, mash-ups and parodies.

 

 

 

This is a mash-up song combining the stylings of Party and Bullshit by Notorious B.I.G and Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus.  This type of music is becoming increasingly popular by Djs who are the one that usually create them.

 

Some think that the use of copyright laws can hinder the progression and creative of our work but I disagree.  As I said, the use of these mash-ups and parodies is becoming ever more popular and I see this as problem.  If we just keep reusing the same material in deferent ways, we are making nothing new and the old stuff will become over used.   

 

In conclusion, I don’t know how I feel about Copyrighting law.  On one hand, the editing and reworking of previous works can lead to very interesting results, while the over working of them can lead to an overused, mess that becomes a burden on society.