Blog Project.
In the past ten years our country,
heck, our world has had amazing breakthroughs in technological advancements.
Due to these advancements in technology America and the world have adapted to
new ways of living and communicating. Much of these have been positive but as
is everything in life where there is a positive there is likely to be a
negative. I will help you navigate through this crazy and distracting media
reliant world we now belong to. I have made a list of the top ten things you should
be aware of when dealing with the Internet.
Here is the crucial top ten tips that you need to be aware of * drum roll*
10.) Anyone who uses the Internet needs to be
aware of how easy it is to get your information stolen. There are always people
out there ready to scam you! Weather it is on a site, in a pop up or on your
very own email. An important term that you need to familiarize yourself with is
a term called “Phishing” Phishing is the action of someone trying to steal your
information by sending you a phony email and when you click on said “phony
email” you can download a dangerous virus that hacks into your computer
stealing all your personal information and giving it to the hacker “Phishing
email messages, websites, and phone calls are designed to steal money.
Cybercriminals can do this by installing malicious
software on your computer or stealing personal information off of your
computer. Cybercriminals also use social
engineering to convince you to install malicious software or hand over your
personal information under false pretenses. They might email you, call you on
the phone, or convince you to download something off of a website.”(http://www.microsoft.com) According to Mashable.com they’re ten signs
you should be aware of if you think you’re being scammed, remember to keep
these in the back of your head just incase you receive a suspicious email; it
could save you from a “phishing” attack.
Number One: Disembodied
Links: Here are the types of emailed links that should make you especially
wary:
• links that are the only content in the
body of an email
• bit.ly or otherwise shortened links that
don't display the actual address
• hyperlinked text (for the same reason as
shortened links — there's no indication of what you would be clicking)
"When
in doubt, don't click. But to help you out, browsers like Google Chrome can
reveal a link's full address when you hover over it with your mouse cursor. For
shortened links, you can use nifty link expanders like LongURL to view the real content before clicking. "(Petronzio) Number Two: Inordinate
number of Recipients: "If you get an email with hundreds of email addresses
in the recipient field, yet the message seems directed toward one person, your
scam sense should be on high alert." (Petronzio) Number Three: Vague, Generic
or Non-existent Subject Lines: "Sure, you send
emails without subjects to your friends all the time, but if an email pops up
from an unrecognizable address with "(no subject)," be careful. The
same goes for vague or generic subject lines, including "Fwd: private"
or "Free to look!" If you have no idea what you're opening, it's
probably best to leave it alone" (Petronzio) Number Four: Intense Enthusiasm: "WHEN IT COMES TO EMAIL SECURITY, CAPS LOCK CAN
BE MORE THAN JUST ANNOYING — it can indicate spam. Overly enthusiastic emails
with emphasis and exclamations (e.g. "I JUST LOST 45lbs W/ THE X-Fit
fitness program!!1!!") are surefire signs that the information isn't what
it seems "(Petronzio) Number Five:
Grammar and Spelling: "You don't have to be a grammar nut to notice odd
mistakes in scam emails. Look out for questionable syntax and major typos,
especially if the email supposedly comes from a reputable company or bank. Also
watch out for scammers that purposely misspell things to avoid your spam
filter, such as "V1agr@" instead of "Viagra." (Tip: You
probably shouldn't be buying Viagra via email, anyway.)"(Petronzio) Number Six: Strange Requests: This
one's easy: "If someone is emailing you for medical assistance or writes,
"Help me cheat on my husband," it's just not legit. That's what
emergency contacts are for. And Snapchat. "(Petronzio) Number Seven: Urgency: "People don't typically use email to send
urgent messages of an emergency nature. If you get an email that claims a
situation is a matter of life or death (or a desperate person who needs money
wired now), it's safe to assume the sender wouldn't be targeting you, a
stranger, in the first place." (Petronzio) Number Eight: Sensitive Information Requests: "Unfortunately, people
accidentally send secure information to scammers more often than you would
expect. This is how scammers (that is, smart scammers) operate — many ask for
personal information (credit card numbers, passwords) and disguise emails to
look official. Companies, schools, banks and other institutions won't ask you
to transmit sensitive information in an email. "(Petronzio) Number Nine: Name-Sender Disagreement: "Scam email addresses often
have different names to dupe the recipient. Check the address before assuming
something is true — an email from Match.com wouldn't have the email address contact@lightsaberduel.com "(Petronzio) and finally Number Ten:
Surefire Guarantees: "You should know by now that nothing on the
Internet is guaranteed. Promises to boost your sex life or quick money via
working from home shouldn't be taken seriously. "Watch this video and
women will adore you?" More like, "Click this link and regret
it."(Petronzio) As stated by the Get Cyber Safe website there are “156
million Phishing emails sent everyday and 80,000 fall for the scam EVERY DAY
and share their personal information” (http://www.getcybersafe.gc.ca) “And finally,
another 10% of people who click the link are netted by the baited website.
Their information results in stolen identities, financial loss, credit card
frauds and other Internet scams” (http://www.getcybersafe.gc.ca)
An example of a phishing story in action would be one concerning Nancy Doyle
back in 2004. “Nancy Boyle woke up one morning last December to discover that
someone had stolen $1,800 from her online bank account. Then came the $800
credit card charge for escort services that she and her husband Dan never
ordered. The Boyles, who run a window treatment business out of their home in
Racine, Wis., were getting a crash course in phishing. The first e-mail
appeared to come from Bank One, warning that Mrs. Boyle's account would be
suspended unless she updated her information to conform with the company's new
anti-fraud measures. She clicked on the link that came with the e-mail and
entered the data on the Web site. Then the money disappeared from her account. Not
long after that, she got another message that looked like it came from eBay. It
warned of fraudulent activity on her account and urged her to verify her
details. She handed over her bank account number, Social Security number and
her mother's maiden name -- the keys to her identity.”(Krebs) Even though this
story may seem a little dated it still holds truth and terror. In less time
than it takes to hit enter on your keyboard you could be giving a complete
stranger the “the keys to YOUR identity” So be smart my friends and play it
smart online, make sure your next email isn’t going to get you phished!
9.) You need to be aware that what you post
on online social media sites like Facebook or Twitter can be very harmful to
your career. There’s a new trend beginning in companies that they are starting
to investigate your Facebook page to see if they will hire you. Posting
something on Facebook that looks incriminating or reckless, regardless if your account
is private or if it’s your weekend time. has the possibility to take you out of
the employment game. What’s on your Facebook could get you fired before you’re
even hired. As controversial as this subject is, it’s something to think about
and definitely something to be aware of. “A recent survey of companies by
CareerBuilder.com found that 45 percent of respondents said they screen
potential job candidates by perusing their profiles on social media sites such
as Facebook and Twitter in search of warning signs that a candidate might not
be a good fit. That 45 percent is more than double the previous year…”(Herald) To
steer clear of job flops due to your Facebook profile Alexis Kleinman wrote an
article for the Huffington post giving the top six that you should think about
before you post.
Number One: Provocative/Inappropriate
Photos
Number Two: Information
About Drinking or Doing Drugs
Number Three: Bad-Mouthing
a Previous Employer
Number Four: Poor
Communication Skills (things that make you look illiterate)
Number Five: Racist, Sexist
or Anti-Religious Remarks
Number Six: Lying (don’t
get caught in a lie online) (Kleinman)
For
example a teacher by the name of Ashley Payne in Barrow County Georgia was
asked to leave her job at Appalachia High School in August of 2009. This young
teacher had taken a trip to Europe and had posted some pictures of herself in a
Guinness Brewery and a local Dublin Pub. Now even though Payne’s Facebook page
was private she was friends with some of her fellow teachers when the principal
became aware of these photos she was “to render her resignation or face
suspension.” She ended up suing the school for being “not made aware of her
rights” (Warren) All in all this teacher lost her job for having pictures of
herself on vacation. As innocent as this action was it got her fired. Anything
you post on the web is out there for life, so be careful, you never know who is
watching. And by that I mean your potential employer could be watching, so be
aware next time you post!
8.) Tagging along with my previous idea about
being careful with what you post, I also have new thought you should think
about and be very aware of. As our technology keeps getting more and more
advanced it is endless what you can do with it and what you can share. And I’m
not talking about pictures, or videos I’m talking about location. In every
social media app you can put out to the world your location by Geo-tagging.
What is geo-tagging you ask? “Geotagging is the process of adding geographical
information to various media in the form of metadata. The data usually consists
of coordinates like latitude and longitude, but may even include bearing,
altitude, distance and place names. Geotagging is most commonly used for
photographs…”(http://www.techopedia.com)
If you’re taking a picture at the San Diego Zoo and you enabled Geo-tagging on
your phone you could let the entire world of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
know where you are. Geo-tagging is something you need to be well familiarized
with. A predator could easily find you, or a burglar would easily know that you
weren’t home. Having all of your 300 plus followers know where you’re is a bit
of a creepy and invasive concept. In an article by Myfoxphilly.com stated that
in 2010 a study showed that 26 percent of online predators were using this kind
of tracking information to get kids. (www.myfoxphilly.com) And a study done in
2009 by the Department of Justice stated that about “25 percent of the 3.4
million people who reported being victims of stalkers during 2005-2006 said
they been stalked using some form of cyber technology such as email or instant
messaging”(Seville) And Rebecca Drake a senior analyst for the National Center
for Victims of Crime stated that “it doesn’t cause stalking, but it makes
stalking a lot easier” (Seville) It is
very easy for a predator to track your whereabouts by using Geo-tagging. If
they are stalking your Facebook profile or your Twitter and you release
information about your location they can easily find you there and then stalk
you to your home. Back in 2010 a women by the name of Carri Bugbee ran into a
terrifying situation when a website by the name of PleaseRobMe.com decided to
use her as their next victim. The website in a way is designed as a scare me
straight program to show their victims how easy it is to be stalked by
consistently geo-tagging their locations. Even thought the website played a
trick on Carri it still had shaken the young women and got her re-thinking her
geo-tagging activity. “In the world of social networking, Carri Bugbee is
hardly a novice. The social-media marketing strategist from Portland, Oregon,
has 7,164 followers on Twitter, 1,197 friends on Facebook, and more than 500
connections on LinkedIn. But when she ventured into the world of geotagging—the
technology behind many of the social networks that broadcast your location to
the Internet—she received an unsettling wake-up call. One evening last
February, she picked up her phone and "checked-in" to a local
restaurant on foursquare, the popular location-based social network that lets
others know where you are in real-time. Foursquare posted her location to her
feed and Bugbee went back to chatting with her friends over the menu. That's
when the hostess came over to the table and told her she had a call on the
restaurant telephone. Bugbee didn't recognize the male voice on the other end
of the line, and the voice didn't offer to introduce itself. It told her she
shouldn't use foursquare because if she did, certain people might find out
where she lived. She nervously laughed off the creepy comment, telling the
caller it was pretty hard to find her house. That set him off. "You stupid
bitch," he said, an opening to a string of insults. She quickly hung up,
rattled. The caller had tracked down Bugbee through PleaseRobMe.com, a website
designed to warn people about the risks of geotagging by aggregating and
publicizing updates from foursquare. In Bugbee's case, the warning was
effective.”(Seville) Even though this threat wasn’t real, these people (whose
tactics are questionable) still proved a point. They knew what restaurant
Bugbee was at, they knew where she was, and Bugbee had no idea. Just think
about a real predator knowing where you are. It scares you, doesn’t’ it? It
certainly scared Carri “I was totally
creeped out," she recalls. "I just didn't ever think it would happen
to me ... I slept with all the lights on that night." She also immediately
quit foursquare and hired a house sitter. She says she felt that someone
"basically stalked me," and she's become, as she put it, a
"geotagging curmudgeon." "I think that a lot of people have
drunk the Kool-Aid without actually thinking that hard about"
location-based technologies, says Bugbee. "At some point, some tragedy
will occur."(Seville) There is definitely a lesson to be learned here. Be
safe and be aware! You never know who could be lurking out there; keep your
location to yourself!
7.) Social media sites like twitter, tumblr,
instagram, Facebook and Pintrest can be very distracting and if you’re not
careful they can even get addicting! You have to be aware that you can get
addicted to social media, especially Facebook. Facebook is the number social
media drug that you can get hooked on. Facebook addiction is no joke! There are
signs and symptoms to it like any other addictive problem, just ask Cynthia
Newton. Cynthia Newton broke her silence on her Facebook addiction in a CNN
news article written by Elizabeth Cohen who is a CNN senior medical
correspondent “I'm an addict. I just get lost in Facebook," Newton said.
"My daughter gets so PO'd at me, and really it is kind of pathetic. It's
not something I'm particularly proud of. I just get so sucked in."(Cohen)
Newton who is so embarrassed by her Facebook “need” didn’t use her real last
name in her CNN interview. She said that she spends about 20 hours a week on
Facebook; she claims that it is half for work (she runs and online business)
and the other half for fun. She has made several attempts to cut down on her
Facebook time, but to no avail, the Facebook hunger always wins. "I can go
a whole day without Facebook," she said. "But I've never made it
through an entire weekend.”(Cohen) Even therapists are noticing a trend in
Facebook addictive issues. Paula Pile a marriage and family therapist in Greensboro,
North Carolina stated "Last Friday, I had three clients in my office with
Facebook problems, It's turned into a compulsion -- a
compulsion to dissociate from your real world and go live in the Facebook
world." She also feels that the “problems arise when users ignore family
and work obligations because they find the Facebook world a more enjoyable
place to spend time than the real world.” Cynthia Newton revealed that she
checks Facebook “first thing when she wakes up, and then she checks her
Facebook page as many as seven times while at work, and then she'll check
Facebook again when she gets home and one more time before she goes to sleep.”
If you've been keeping count, that's about 10 times a day. (Cohen) Another psychologist by the name of Joanna
Lipari who is from the University of California, Los Angeles had compared
Facebook to “The Truman Show” which is a 1998 film that featured Jim Carrey; in
this movie Jim Carry is living in a fabricated world where nothing can go
wrong. Joanna added to this by saying "Facebook is a fun, pleasant, happy,
beautiful world. People only present the crème de la crème of their lives on
Facebook. And these people want to be your friends! It's very seductive.” Paula
Pile added to that statement saying “it's especially seductive when real life
isn't going so well, In real life, people have morning breath, and you have to
pay bills with them, and you argue about who's going to change the baby's
diaper," she said. "But Facebook is happy land. You don't have to
deal with any of that." Newton who is ashamed of how out of control her
Facebooking has gotten told CNN “I've thought about going cold turkey, but that
would make me so uncomfortable. I know I couldn't do it."(Cohen) So how
can you avoid being a Facebook junkie? Well here are five tips provided by
psychologists Joanna Lipari and Paula Pile. These could be the trick to kicking
your Facebook habit, if you have one!
Number One: You lose sleep
over Facebook: "If
you're staying up late at night because you're on Facebook, and you're tired
the next day, Facebook may be a compulsion for you," Lipari said.
"You shouldn't be neglecting yourself because of Facebook."(Cohen)
Number Two: You Spend more
than an Hour a day on Facebook:
Pile says it's hard to pinpoint exactly how much is too much time to be
spending on social networking.
"I
can't imagine that anyone would need more than an hour a day on Facebook, and
probably no one needs more than 30 minutes," she said. (Cohen)
Number Three: You become
obsessed with old loves: Reconnecting
with old friends is one of the great attractions of Facebook, and there's
nothing necessarily wrong with "friending" an old boyfriend or
girlfriend. But Pile warns that it can get out of hand very quickly. "One
of my clients met up with an old boyfriend on Facebook. They started spending
hours and hours into the night talking to each other on Facebook. She made some
really inappropriate comments about how unhappy she was in her marriage,"
Pile said. "Her cousin saw the comments and told her parents, and the
parents told the husband, and now they're in the process of getting
divorced." (Cohen)
Number Four: You ignore
work in favor of Facebook: "If
you're not doing your job in order to sneak time on Facebook, you could have a
real problem," Lipari said. (Cohen)
Number Five: The thought of
getting off Facebook leaves you in a cold sweat: Sarah Browne, who writes the Guru of New
blog, gave up Facebook for Lent last month when she realized that she had a
"mild" addiction to the site. She's come up with "Seven Signs You May Be Ready for a Social
Media Detox." Pile has her own quick test: "Try going a
day without Facebook. If you find it causes you a lot of stress and anxiety,
you really need to get some help." (Cohen) I’ve also gathered some
statistics from www.lifementalhealth.com
to give you an insight on how Facebook is as second nature as breathing. According to the site
- Approximately
50% of individual between the ages of 18 and 34 check Facebook immediately
after waking up. More than half of these individuals check their Facebook pages
on their smartphones before getting out of bed”(Reimer)
- 48%
of young Americans stated that they get their “news” through Facebook (Reimer)
- ·
11%
of individuals age 25 and under can be interrupted by a Facebook or Twitter
message during sex, 22% of the same group can be interrupted by a message
during a meeting, 24% can be interrupted while going to the bathroom and 49%
can be interrupted during a meal. (Reimer)
- ·
48%
of Facebook users update their status or check for notifications after going to
bed (Reimer)
- ·
18%
of individuals age 25 and under cannot go “more than a couple hours” without
checking their Facebook page. (Reimer)
Now
that you know the signs be aware and be honest with yourself! If you think
you’re Facebooking too much you probably are. Social media sites as wonderful
as they are, they are designed to aid our lives, not rule them.
6.) Not everything you read on the Internet
is true. False information is always being spread around the web. For example
as much as sites like Twitter can be helpful with spreading news and alerting
the public it can sometimes be a major problem when the news they’re spreading
is incorrect. NBC News recently posted a story of how social media users
especially on Twitter were spreading false rumors that the Malaysia flight made
a safe landing. “Perhaps the most damaging rumor came
shortly after the jet, which was carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to
Beijing, was reported missing Saturday local time: A story spread mainly on
Chinese social media that the craft had made a safe emergency landing in
Nanning, China. One Twitter user posted that he had
"some inside news from a pilot uncle that #MH370 has emergency landed
somewhere in China! Hope everyone is safe."”(Pepitone) These falsified
claims spread like wildfire among local Malaysian media, who were publishing
similar stories. Even a noted Malaysian digest published a story stating that
the plan had landed safely in China (which was incorrect) Once the Digest
realized this story held no truth they quickly updated their page. It’s
remarkable and horrifying how one rumor can be the one single movement that
causes a huge domino affect in journalism. “The Malaysia Airlines rumors echo
the speculation and false stories that tend to whip through social media
platforms in the wake of national tragedies. After last April's Boston Marathon
bombing, for example, representatives for the social/news site Reddit were forced
to apologize on behalf of users who falsely "identified" multiple
people as the bombers.”(Pepitone) It’s probably one the most important things
you need to be aware of when it comes to social media sites and the Internet,
everything is fair game. Anyone can post anything, I’m not sure why people
enjoy spreading false information but it is something that happens and it
happens quite frequently. Here’s a few things you should think of when you’re
reading something on the Internet, first thing you want to do is check the URL.
There are six different types of URL’s you should be familiarized with, they
are….
·
. com, which is a commercial site, “the information provided by commercial
interests is generally going to shed a positive light on the product it
promotes. While this information might not necessarily be false, you might be
getting only part of the picture. Remember, there's a monetary incentive behind
every commercial site in providing you with information, whether it is for good
public relations or to sell you a product outright. (http://www.usg.edu)
·
. edu, which means educational institution. “Sites using this domain name are schools
ranging from kindergarten to higher education. If you take a look at your
school's URL you'll notice that it ends with the domain .edu. Information from
sites within this domain must be examined very carefully. If it is from a
department or research center at a educational institution, it can generally be
taken as credible. However, students' personal Web sites are not usually
monitored by the school even though they are on the school's server and use the
.edu domain. (http://www.usg.edu)
·
. gov this is a government site. “If you come across a site with
this domain, then you're viewing a federal government site. All branches of the
United States federal government use this domain. Information such as Census
statistics, Congressional hearings, and Supreme Court rulings would be included
in sites with this domain. The information is considered to be from a credible
source” (http://www.usg.edu)
·
. org “Traditionally a non-profit organization. Organizations such
as the American Red Cross or PBS (Public Broadcasting System) use this domain
suffix. Generally, the information in these types of sites is credible and
unbiased, but there are examples of organizations that strongly advocate
specific points of view over others, such as the National Right to Life
Committee and Planned Parenthood. You probably want to give this domain a
closer scrutiny these days. Some commercial interests might be the ultimate
sponsors of a site with this suffix. (http://www.usg.edu)
·
. Mil Military. “This domain suffix is used by the various
branches of the Armed Forces of the United States.”(http://www.usg.edu)
·
. net Network. “You might find any kind of site under this domain
suffix. It acts as a catch-all for sites that don't fit into any of the
preceding domain suffixes. Information from these sites should be given careful
scrutiny” (http://www.usg.edu)
Now
that you know the different URL’s that lie within the Internet be sure of which
ones to rely on. It is always a good idea though to check and re-check your
sources. For example if you’re getting your news online check out a couple of
online newspaper sites, don’t just stick to one. As amazing as Twitter and
Facebook are they should not be held as the most honest place to receive news.
There are 58 million people who have a Twitter that is 9,100 tweets per-second
(http://www.statisticbrain.com)
just think of 58 million people all tweeting and re-tweeting incorrect
information. Be wise when it comes to
the Internet and the constant flow of information that comes racing through it
everyday. The point to this entry is always check and re-check!
5.) Since the creation of Facebook and all
social media sites so much has changed in regards to human communication. You
know longer need to write letters and wait 5 plus days for a response, all
communication is now instant and easy. Social Media has had so many powerful
and positive impacts (trying saying that five times fast) especially with communication.
How has it made a positive impact you wonder? Well I’ll tell you! Social media
has a way of connecting people from all over the planet; in a way it puts us
all in the same fish bowel. On social media there are no walls to stop us from
communicating with one another, it’s a very exciting and freeing thought if you
really focus on it. On socialmediatoday.com Syed Noman Ali posted an article
that really helps sum up the positives of the social media craze!
·
Number one on his list is that social media has
positively affected are friends and relations “Social networks started as a
place to connect with your friends in an easy an convenient way. Truly
speaking, many of you might have found your old pals from school or college who
were out of touch due to one reason or other, well I would say I have and I
thank social networks for this. Social networks has provided us the opportunity
to connect with people and build better relationships with friends with whom we
are unable to meet personally, and let them know about our life and take input
about their lives and events happening with them.”(Ali)
·
Number two on his list was that thanks to social
media there is a decrease of communication barriers, “With social networks we
are able to communicate our thoughts and perceptions over different topics with
a large number of audiences, and raise our voice. The sharing feature available
on the social networks makes your opinion about any topic reach huge number of
people (even to those who are not on your friends list). We have the option to
make groups with people who are like-minded and share the related news with
them and ask for their opinion or input about the topic. Simply there are a
number of options available for us to communicate with others on these social
networks.” (Ali)
·
Number three on his list was that social media
creates more opportunities for businesses “social networks have become a
crucial part of many of us. We don’t even notice this but as soon as we open
our desktops or laptops to access the web, we sub-consciously open our favorite
social network just to see about the updates received. Businesses have noticed
the value of social networks in our life, and they are using different
techniques to promote their products. There are a number of customized
applications being made on the social platforms, whose main purpose is to
promote the product or brand. As social marketing is cost effective and brands
have a huge audience, they are shifting more towards social marketing.”(Ali) Social
media, Facebook especially is one the of the biggest hands to shake when it
comes to the reconnection of long loss friends and maybe even love. I for one
can personally vogue for this. My father has been in the military for 32 years
and as such I have traveled and seen a great deal of America in my 20 years (of
course there’s more to see!) but I have connected with a great deal of people
all over the place, if it wasn’t for Facebook I would have honestly never
spoken to any of my old friends. Facebook is the reason I can still call people
from Watertown, New York, Fairfax Virginia, and Oxford Michigan my friends. I
can watch them grow and stay in the loop of what they’re doing, it’s always fun
to see a friendly face from the past. And this of course can be said for Gay
Cioffi and Mark Obenhaus. You’re probably wondering where the heck these names
just came from, well I promise you I didn’t make them up! Gay Cioffi and Mark
Obenhaus is a couple that reunited through Facebook after 35 years! Remarkable
I know! Gay Cioffi and Mark Obenhaus once upon a time had a summer romance in
the Hamptons back in 1978. “It was 1978 and Ms. Cioffi was spending the summer
as an assistant in the artist Sheila Isham’s studio in Sagaponack, N.Y. She was
27 and had recently separated from her first husband. Every morning before
work, she would go for a jog along Gibson Beach and return to the beach for the
few hours before sunset. In mid-July, a tall, handsome bearded fellow with the
shaggy long hair of the era would come running in the opposite direction, and
then appear again during her beach visits later in the day. That would be Mr.
Obenhaus, then 32 and a documentary filmmaker who was also separated from his
first wife; he was between projects and had extra time to spend at his shared
beach house down the street from Ms. Isham’s studio.” (Rutenberg) Once these
two started talking it was a one-way ticket down romance drive “they spent
every waking hour that Ms. Cioffi was not working together, “just talking,
talking, laughing,” said Ms. Cioffi, who kept a detailed journal.” (Rutenberg)
But like the movie Grease summer comes to an end and the romance along with it
“but the summer sun has a way of temporarily bleaching out life’s inevitable
stains. In the real world it was not going to work. Much like a plot from an
Ephron romantic comedy, Ms. Cioffi recalled writing in her journal, “I’ve met
this perfect person, but the timing is all wrong, and I really need to be
independent and figure some things out.” (Rutenberg) So separated they were,
she was Washington bound and he heard New York City calling his name. Time went
on but every now and then they would think about each other from time to time
“every so often Mr. Obenhaus would stumble upon his stash of Polaroids of Ms.
Cioffi. “I would just think of her just very, very warmly, and kind of wonder,
‘What happened to her?’ ”(Rutenberg) Over the course of 35 years the two had
lived separate lives, they had gone on in their careers and ended up marrying
different people and raising family’s. But this was not the end for our summertime
lovers, soon Ms. Cioffi divorced from her second husband and sadly Mr.
Obenhaus’s wife died tragically of breast and brain cancer. After there second
love affairs Cioffi and Obenhaus had given up love, they both sweared that they
would never love again… “She assumed her romantic life was in the
past. “I thought, ‘I’ve been married twice, I’ve been so lucky to find love and
romance,’ ” she said. “I wasn’t looking for that again. That part of my
life was basically over.”… “He took care of her devotedly for all of those
years and then she died and he said to me, ‘I’ll never get married
again,’ ” said Richard Brick, a close friend and longtime production
partner. “And it was heartbreaking.”(Rutenberg) To these two surprise that
would not be the case. In June of 2012 Nora Ephron died her death had taken Ms.
Cioffi back to the Hamptons of 78 when she and Mr. Obenhaus would drive by her
house with all this nostalgia in her heart Ms. Cioffi told her 32 -year-old
niece Carly Cioffi told her about her summer in Sagaponak and Mr. Obenhaus
(Rutenberg) being any young niece of course you want your grandmother to be
happy! Carly convinced her grandmother to look Mr. Obenhaus up on Facebook. “His
beard was gone, his shaggy brown hair was grayer, and his cheeks were more
sunken, but she was again drawn to his blue eyes. She made a “friend request”
and promptly panicked. But this lasted only for the four minutes that it took
Mr. Obenhaus to respond: “So nice to see your name appear. I thought of you and
that summer we met when Nora Ephron passed. I have a home not far from where we
met and was at Gibson Beach this weekend. I hope we can catch up some day. Life
is too short, as they say.”(Rutenberg) Ever since this “panicked” friend
request Mr. Obenhaus and Ms. Cioffi have been together. Two young lovers
reunited after all this time, and they have Facebook to thank. If it wasn’t for
social media these two may have never rekindle their long lost flame for one
another. “They were married Aug. 3 in Springs, on the balcony overlooking Three
Mile Harbor at the East Hampton Point resort.”(Rutenberg) This story has to be
one of the most romantic and joyful story I have heard in a long time, if you
would like the full scoop, in detail, click on this link http://www.nytimes.com and type in Gay Cioffi
and Mark Obenhaus. Every 20 minutes on Facebook there are 2 million friend
requests sent, in Gay Cioffi and Mark Obenhaus they were just a number in a
statistic until they connected or in this case re-connected. So check your
friend requests, you never know who could be requesting you!
4.) Thanks to the Internet we can now stream
movies and TV shows. Sites like Netflix, Vudu, Amazon prime, and Hulu are sites
that you can go on to stream movies or TV shows. Being able to have these sites
makes your television life more convenient to your actual life, such a broad
statement I know! But you can watch what you want to watch when you can afford
to watch it. The crown jewel of all web TV/movie sites is Netflix. Netflix has
as the incredible number of 29.2 million subscribers (www.statisticbrain.com) and personally
speaking I’m one of them. One of my favorite things to do is to go on Netflix
and have a viewing binge party all to myself. I have to thank Netflix for my
obsessions with the TV show Supernatural. Netflix has the entire season so far
which is eight seasons or so; a girl could stay up for a straight week looking
at Jenson Ackle’s face. But coming back to a more serious note Netflix is not
only convenient but it holds serious weight when it comes to their audience.
This site knows how to people please “while competing online TV services are
producing original content, Netflix has the crown. Original series like
"House of Cards" and "Orange is the New Black" are major
critical competitors to award-winning cable TV series. Also, because Netflix
doesn't operate with the restrictions and strict Nielsen ratings guidelines of
a cable production company, it has chosen to restore hope to particular
audiences. Several years after the critically acclaimed series "Arrested
Development" was canceled, Netflix revived it. And when "The
Killing" suffered a premature death on AMC, Netflix chose to bring it back
for one last season and give fans closure. Netflix is truly a company that
knows its audience” (http://internet-tv-sites-review.toptenreviews.com)
If you don’t already have one you should invest in getting a Netflix account
it’s available on any device with Internet connection “while Netflix debuted
with a computer-only online TV model; it has grown a great deal of added apps
for every smart device available. The streaming service is accessed using smart
TVs, Blu-ray players, gaming consoles, tablets and smartphones. Essentially,
anything with an Internet connection can access streaming TV through Netflix.”(http://internet-tv-sites-review.toptenreviews.com)
As stated previously if you don’t have one, get one! This is one Internet
creation you don’t want to miss out on!
3.) I don’t want to sound to cliché here but
I have a passion for fashion. One thing I am so happy that we can do on the
Internet is …yup! You’ve guessed it! SHOP. Something you need to be aware of is
online shopping! There are 65 million beautiful people on this earth and about
27 percent of them shop online, and of course during the holidays that number
shifts to about 55 percent (http://www.dealjoy.com)
Let me tell you why online shopping is all around better than in-store
shopping.
·
Better Prices: who doesn’t want cute things for cheap?
“The vast majority of online stores offer prices that are much lower than what
you will find at a physical store. There are a few reasons for this. The first
is because many people use the Internet to find cheaper items. Online business
owners understand this. They will usually reduce their profit margin to get
more customers. Another reason is because you can easily browse through dozens
of different websites to find the best price. You can do the same at a mall,
but it would take about an hour or longer. You also may not be taxed because
most ecommerce stores won’t tax you unless they are stationed in your state” (http://quartsoft.com)
·
Convenience: You had me at no lines! “Shopping online
is convenient. You don’t need to get dressed and drive to your favorite store.
You can easily visit their website, find the product you want and buy it
without getting out of your pajamas. It’s also convenient because you don’t
need to wait for the store to open. If you work irregular hours or are very
busy, then you probably don’t have the time to visit the store. Shopping online
allows you to buy things without hurting your schedule.”(http://quartsoft.com)
· Variety: You know what they say the more the
merrier. “Most physical stores have a limited array of products. They can only
hold so many items, and there are often many policies affecting the
availability of products. For example, there might be a certain item that is
only available to those versions of the business that exist in the mall.
Shopping online allows you to find many products that you wouldn’t be able to
find in a physical store. You can also buy products that may not logically go
together like candy canes and quilts.”(http://quartsoft.com)
· Fewer Traps: If I say no, I mean no! “Physical
stores are made to lure you into buying more things. They use posters, sales
messages, colors and product placement to make you buy additional items. The
most popular products are typically in the back because the owner wants you to
view all of his or her other products. Many people will find a few additional
items by the time they reach the thing they came in for. These tactics are not
as pronounced with online stores. This means that you won’t feel the pressure
to buy other things. (http://quartsoft.com)
· Discrete Shopping: I won’t tell if you don’t! “Physical
stores often make it difficult to buy certain items. For example, buying
lingerie without getting a few awkward stares is nearly impossible. There are
many instances of this, and sometimes you might feel embarrassed for no reason.
Shopping online gives you privacy because you won’t have people looking at you
while you shop. Not only that, but the receipts are usually made so that no one
will know what you bought” (http://quartsoft.com)
These are
valid reasons to take into account next time you hit the web. It’s fun to go on
multiple different retail sights and just let your brain wonder over all the
clothes. It’s shopping without all the real hassle of shopping. Now as big of a
fan as I am about online shopping you have to be smart with the sites you
choose to shop on. You don’t want to have an experience like Clarabelle
Rodriguez had. Clarabelle was shopping online for some new glasses when she
discovered a spot below “Google’s version of the gold-medal podium” She found
the sight DecorMyEyes.com, at first this seemed like a real deal sight. She had
order a pair of Ciba Vision contact lenses all for the cost of $361.97. Who
knew that this purchase was “the start of what Ms. Rodriguez would later
describe as one of the most maddening and miserable experiences of her life”
(Segal) DecorMyEyes.com wasn’t an actual retail site for glasses it was
actually a scam run by a man who goes by the name Tony Russo or Stanley Broker
some people think the scammers real name is Vitaly Borker. What this one man
has done is scam tons of unwilling victims out of their money by collecting
their information and then threatening them if they don’t’ comply with what he
wants. The next day, a man named Tony Russo called to say that DecorMyEyes had
run out of the Ciba Visions. Pick another brand, he advised a little brusquely.
“I told him that I didn’t want another brand,” recalls Ms. Rodriguez, who lives
in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. “And I asked for a refund. He got
rude, really obnoxious. ‘What’s the big deal? Choose another brand!’” With the
contacts issue unresolved, her eyeglasses arrived two days later. But the
frames appeared to be counterfeits and Ms. Rodriguez, a lifelong fan of Lafont,
remembers that even the case seemed fake. Soon after, she discovered that
DecorMyEyes had charged her $487 — or an extra $125. When she and Mr. Russo
spoke again, she asked about the overcharge and said she would return the
frames. “What the hell am I supposed to do with these glasses?” she recalls Mr.
Russo shouting. “I ordered them from France specifically for you!” “I’m going
to contact my credit card company,” she told him, “and dispute the charge.” Until
that moment, Mr. Russo was merely ornery. Now he erupted “Listen, bitch,” he
fumed, according to Ms. Rodriguez. “I know your address. I’m one bridge over” —
a reference, it turned out, to the company’s office in Brooklyn. Then, she
said, he threatened to find her and commit an act of sexual violence too
graphic to describe in a newspaper.” (Segal) That line sends shivers up my
spine every time I read this story. Clarabelle tried to dispute the charges that
were being placed upon her Citi card ignoring the threats that Russo was firing
her way “two days later, she received another e-mail from Mr. Russo. “Close the
dispute with the credit card company if you know whats good for you,” he wrote.
“Do the right thing and everyone goes away. I AM WATCHING YOU!”(Segal) At this
point in the game I would be exceptionally scared and have police surround my
apartment, but Clarabelle pressed on. She never dropped the suite until one day
the Citi bank had closed their case because Clara had indicated that she would
be accepting the responsibility of the charges. Now wait doesn’t this seem off
to you? This poor women has spent a great deal of time getting the charges
disputed but now Citi is telling her she’s accepted them? Something about this
isn’t right. Well apparently somebody called the Citi bank posing as Clara
telling them that she would be accepting the charges, and since the call wasn’t
recorded they have no evidence that this is true. (Segal) So now Clarabelle is
stuck with a sum of money to pay and the short end of the stinky evil stick.
The sad thing is that this guy is a professional and has done this multiple times
by DecorMyEyes.com. As enthusiastic as I am about online shopping be aware that
there are still creeps online looking to take anybody’s hard earned money. Be
cautious, stick to the sites you know, and maybe stay within the gold member
Google club.
2.) Social media is a great tool for
promotion. So many bands and even businesses have made it big thanks to social
media, I mean look at the people who created social media sites. They have
created lively hoods for themselves by taking advantage of the technological
advancements around them. Use social media and the Internet to your advantage.
Create a fitness blog and if you get enough followers you get paid, promote
your music with twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram, maybe even get vine
famous. There are so many entrepreneurial opportunities out there, all social
media ideas were just that, ideas, and now some people can’t go days without
them, for some people those ideas gave birth to their careers. Take a chance
and see what could happen! I am going to pull information from reason 5 when
Ali stated that social media creates more opportunities for businesses “social
networks have become a crucial part of many of us. We don’t even notice this
but as soon as we open our desktops or laptops to access the web, we
sub-consciously open our favorite social network just to see about the updates
received. Businesses have noticed the value of social networks in our life, and
they are using different techniques to promote their products. There are a
number of customized applications being made on the social platforms, whose
main purpose is to promote the product or brand. As social marketing is cost
effective and brands have a huge audience, they are shifting more towards
social marketing.”(Ali) And what great
advice if you’re a struggling small business or the new kid on the block. Use
social media to your advantage, get a twitter and make page and tweet about
your business, if you’re hiring, what your hours are what makes you different
then the other competition out there; get a helpful following. You could also
make a Facebook page and get your name out there! Nowadays businesses thrive
off of being well known, you have to come to where the people are at and then
they will come to you. For example Michael Mendez owns four area fuel stations
around Miami and he keeps them well founded, how? You way wonder? Well Mendez
has learned the game of branding with social media “Mendez strategically has
branded his four Miami-area fuel stations as much more than places for a
fill-up. Using Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, he has created buzz about craft
beers and other products inside the station shop, where the profit margins are
higher than at the pump. “Branding in today’s world is knowing people and
relating to them,” said Mendez, whose Mendez Fuel customers often share the
photos and spread the word online about his new arrivals. In recent years,
small-business owners like Mendez have turned to social media, email and mobile
marketing websites to build visibility for their brands. In 2014, say experts,
digital marketing is no longer simply a way to bump up brand awareness: It has
become essential. With 73 percent of U.S. Internet users turning to social
networking sites and 53 percent of American adults carrying a smart phone,
businesses that don’t employ social network marketing may find themselves losing
out to the competition. “If you are counting on your business to generate
profit for a while or if you plan to leave it as a legacy for a family member,
if you’re not branding and marketing online, you’re being irresponsible,” says
Stephen Cabeza, founder of Amplification Inc, a Fort Lauderdale social media
marketing company. (Goodman) These men couldn’t have hit the nail on the head
any better! Times are changing; people are receiving their information
differently. We are heavily reliant on social media and the Internet to get us
through life; it has become part of everything we do. It only makes sense that
businesses jump on this fast moving locomotive that is social media, as I stated
earlier social media has a way of putting us all in the same fish bowel. What
Mendez is doing is using his thinking cap. The list of possibilities is endless
for businesses with social media!
1.) 12 months prior to the 2011 Youth Risk
Behavior Surveillance Survey, 16.2% of students had been
electronically bullied, including being bullied through e-mail, chat
rooms, instant messaging, websites, or texting (www.meganmeierfoundation.org). 25% of social media teens have had an
experience that resulted in a face-to-face argument or confrontation with
someone. 22% have had an experience that ended their friendship with
someone, 13% have had an experience that caused a problem with their
parents, 13% have felt nervous about going to school the next day, 8%
have gotten into a physical fight with someone else because of something that
happened on a social network site, and 6% have gotten in trouble at
school because of an experience on a social network site. (www.meganmeierfoundation.org) From
2010-2011, 1 million children reported being harassed, threatened, or
subjected to other forms of cyber bullying on Facebook (www.meganmeierfoundation.org). There
has always been bullying, as much as I wish that this unfortunate and horrible
epidemic would cease to exist in our society, it hasn’t. With the birth of the
Internet and all the new media sites that were brought from it, bullying could
now escape from the playground and into the computer screen. Cyber-bullying. What
is Cyber-bullying? Cyber-bullying by definition is “the use of electronic
communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an
intimidating or threatening nature.”(https://www.google.com)
Cyber-bullying is something people use to terrify those who they cannot face in
person, though cyber-bullying is not necessarily face to face contact it is
still hurtful and harmful. There have been numerous deaths linked to on-line
bullying, it’s both tragic and depressing that sites like Facebook which were
intended to make life better could be the tools in which some are ended. As you
have probably noticed many of the statistics I have been using in this entry
thus far have been from the MeganMeierFoundation.org. Megan Meier was a young,
and beautiful 13-year-old girl who killed herself due to cyber-bulling. Her
story is one that is well known because of the tragedy and shock that surrounds
it. Megan’s bullies were not random “mean” girls but a whole family who knew
the Meier’s well, this bully was one who was close friends with Megan, one who
knew that she struggled with depression and body image issues. “She loved
swimming, boating, fishing, dogs, rap music and boys. But her life had not
always been easy, her mother says. “She was heavy and for years had tried to
lose weight. She had attention deficit disorder and battled depression. Back in
third grade she had talked about suicide, Tina says, and ever since had seen a
therapist. But things were going exceptionally well. She had shed 20 pounds,
getting down to 175. She was 5 foot 5½ inches tall. She had just started eighth
grade at a new school, Immaculate Conception, in Dardenne Prairie, where she
was on the volleyball team. She had attended Fort Zumwalt public schools before
that. Amid all these positives, Tina says, her daughter decided to end a
friendship with a girlfriend who lived down the street from them. The girls had
spent much of seventh grade alternating between being friends and, the next
day, not being friends, Tina says. Part of the reason for Megan's rosy outlook
was Josh, Tina says. After school, Megan would rush to the computer. "Megan
had a lifelong struggle with weight and self-esteem," Tina says. "And
now she finally had a boy who thought she was really pretty." It did seem
odd, Tina says, that Josh never asked for Megan's phone number. And when Megan
asked for his, she says, Josh said he didn't have a cell and his mother did not
yet have a landline. And then on Sunday, Oct. 15, 2006, Megan received a
puzzling and disturbing message from Josh. Tina recalls that it said: "I
don't know if I want to be friends with you anymore because I've heard that you
are not very nice to your friends. "Frantic, Megan shot back: "What
are you talking about?"(www.meganmeierfoundation.org)
This is when the world of Megan Meier started to shatter, coming from a girls
perspective it’s a wonderful feeling when a boy likes you, and at that age it
seems like everything. Megan seemed to really care for Josh and could not
understand why he was saying these concerning things to her; she was at a loss
for words. In the weeks following, Josh was sending Megan even more disturbing
messages asking why she was so mean and telling her that he had shared their
personal messages with other people. “Monday, Oct. 16, 2006, was a rainy, bleak
day. At school, Megan had handed out invitations to her upcoming birthday party
and when she got home she asked her mother to log on to MySpace to see if Josh
had responded. Why did he suddenly think she was mean? Who had he been talking
to?”(www.meganmeierfoundation.com)
Megan didn’t understand. A few minutes later and already distraught Megan saw
that Josh was posting bulletins about her, which are surveys on MySpace, the
bulletins read” Megan Meier is a slut. Megan Meier is fat."(www.meganmeierfoundation.org)
The last message that Megan received from Josh before she signed off for the
very last time was "Everybody in O'Fallon knows how you are. You are a bad
person and everybody hates you. Have a shitty rest of your life. The world
would be a better place without you." (www.meganmeierfoundation.org)
And with the last statement ringing in her head Megan Meier ran upstairs and
killed herself. "I had this God-awful feeling and I ran up into her room
and she had hung herself in the closet." Megan Taylor Meier died the next
day, three weeks before her 14th birthday. (www.meganmeierfoundation.org) The
cyber-bully in the Megan Meier suicide is what leaves you with an aching in
your heart, the people who were bullying her were one of her ex- friends, that
ex-friends mother, an employee who worked with the mother (who helped set up
the fake account) and a random girl who thought it was “ok” because it was
being monitored by adults. The police report reads as such "(She) stated
in the months leading up Meier's daughter's suicide, she instigated and
monitored a 'my space' account which was created for the sole purpose of
communicating with Meier's daughter. "(She)
said she, with the help of temporary employee named ------ constructed a
profile of 'good looking' male on 'my space' in order to 'find out what Megan
(Meier's daughter) was saying on-line' about her daughter. (She) explained the
communication between the fake male profile and Megan was aimed at gaining
Megan's confidence and finding out what Megan felt about her daughter and other
people. "(She) stated she, her daughter and (the temporary employee) all
typed, read and monitored the communication between the fake male profile and
Megan …"According to (her) 'somehow' other 'my space' users were able to
access the fake male profile and Megan found out she had been duped. (She)
stated she knew 'arguments' had broken out between Megan and others on 'my
space.' (She) felt this incident contributed to Megan's suicide, but she did
not feel 'as guilty' because at the funeral she found out 'Megan had tried to
commit suicide before.”(www.meganmeierfoundation.org)
In the Meier’s eyes the end result was to humiliate Megan "I know that
they did not physically come up to our house and tie a belt around her
neck," Tina says. "But when adults are involved and continue to screw
with a 13-year-old - with or without mental problems - it is absolutely vile. "She
wanted to get Megan to feel like she was liked by a boy and let everyone know
this was a false MySpace and have everyone laugh at her. "I don't feel
their intentions were for her to kill herself. But that's how it
ended. (www.meganmeierfoundation.org)
It’s so heartbreaking that this young life was not able to blossom into the
beautiful journey it was suppose to take. It was only three weeks before
Megan’s birthday a time when you would celebrate life, she had bought a new
dress for her party and everything "She and her mom went shopping and
bought a new dress," Ron says. "She wanted to make this grand
entrance with me carrying her down the stairs. I never got to see her in that
dress until the funeral." (www.meganmaierfoundation.org) There
is just an unmistakable pain in the story of Megan Meier that I can feel but
will never be able to fully understand. It’s important to be aware that
Cyber-bullying is out there and it could happen to you or your children. The
heart-breaking death of Megan Meier has unfortunately found its way into other families.
My hope and prayer is that the hideous and vicious reality of bullying will one
day end, and that children and young adults won’t be afraid to go to school or
go online, as Ellen DeGeneres says at the end of every show “be kind to one
another” (http://www.ellentv.com/tags/Quotes/)
To read more on the Megan Meier Story and how to get involved in the Megan
Meier foundation click the link here! http://www.meganmeierfoundation.org/megans-story.html
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