Facebook is not for friendships, it’s pure business 01 December 2009

Facebook dumbing friendship down. True or false?

 

Both.

It’s true because most of your contacts on facebook arn’t your real close friends you talk to everyday.

It’s false because you don’t use facebook to keep contact with old friends. Think of it, how often do you really talk to that classmate from first grade..? Facebook is used to create new relationships and contacs, for the simple purpose of benefiting.

Let me explain.

The author says that there is a need to introduce a real friend as a “close friend”, because of all the “friends” at social networks such as facebook. He makes a good point but i’d rather introduce that close friend as a “friend from …”

My opinion is that facebook has nothing to do with real friendsship. Some might think it does, but I don’t. For example:

Say you have a close friend that you talk to almost every day. Then, for some reason you stop talking, maybe because one of you moves or something. The only time you actually writes to that friend on facebook is when you 1. wanna prove to your new friends that you have other friends and 2. if you for some reasons can’t communicate through another medium.

 

 

As I mentioned earlier, Facebook is about making contacs that you  can draw a benefit from. Like the article from PR Australia (Digital PR strategies: Using social media to influence online brand visibility and reputation) said:

 

“It’s not just your website that is a source for search engines such as Google to examine and publish. It’s every piece of communication – formal and informal – which uses the web. This also includes the personal profiles of your staff, their facebook pages, their LinkedIn profiles etc”

 

 

So if a staffmember post something on her facebook wall, all her friends can see it, which gives the company PR.

So thanks to facebook dumbing friendsships, companies can actually take advantages of this. And not just companies, even just regular people maybe trying to start a business, or just having an garage sale. Everyone can benefit from having more contacts on facebook.

And those who are truly your friends don’t need facebook to communicate with you. So it’s easier to think of facebook as an great invention which allows you to be “friends” with people you barely know, but later in life can use for different purposes.

But doctors and patiens becoming friends on facebook just seems wrong..

Sorry! 30 November 2009

I completely missed the deadline for the articleblogpost! It’s almost finished, so I’m gonna post it tomorrow hopefully. Sorry!

Children’s Books you’ll never see in the Library 18 November 2009

Children are far too sheltered these days, these are just a few of the books that should be part of every kid’s childhood memories!

 

 

“You Were an Accident”

“You Are Different and That’s Bad”

“The Boy Who Died From Eating All His Vegetables”

“Dad’s New Wife Robert”

“Fun Four-letter Words to Know and Share”

“Hammers, Screwdrivers and Scissors: An I-Can-Do-It Book”

“The Kids’ Guide to Hitchhiking”

“Kathy Was So Bad Her Mom Stopped Loving Her”

“Curious George and the High-Voltage Fence”

“All Cats Go to Hell”

“The Little Sissy Who Snitched”

“That’s it, I’m Putting You Up for Adoption”

“Grandpa Gets a Casket”

“The Magic World Inside the Abandoned Refrigerator”

“The Pop-Up Book of Human Anatomy”

“Whining, Kicking and Crying to Get Your Way”

“Things Rich Kids Have, But You Never Will”

“Pop! Goes The Hamster…And Other Great Microwave Games”

“Your Nightmares Are Real”

“Eggs, Toilet Paper, and Your School”

“Places Where Mommy and Daddy Hide Neat Things”

“Daddy Drinks Because You Cry”

“Oh, the Places You’ll Scratch and Sniff”

“Strangers Have the Best Candy”

“Some Kittens Can Fly!”

“Getting More Chocolate on Your Face”

“Where Would You Like to Be Buried?”

“The Attention Deficit Disorder Association’s Book of Wild Animals of North Amer – Hey! Let’s Go Ride Our Bikes!”

“When Mommy and Daddy Don’t Know the Answer, They Say ‘God Did It’”

“Garfield Gets Feline Leukemia”

“What Is That Dog Doing to That Other Dog?”

“Why Can’t Mr. Fork and Ms. Electrical Outlet Be Friends?”

“Bi-Curious George”

“Testing Homemade Parachutes Using Only Your Household Pets”

“The Hardy Boys, the Barbie Twins, and the Vice Squad”

“Babar Meets the Taxidermist”

“Start a Real-Estate Empire With the Change From Your Mom’s Purse”

“The Care Bears Maul Some Campers and are Shot Dead”

“How to Become The Dominant Military Power In Your Elementary School”

“Controlling the Playground: Respect through Fear”

“The brown stuff in a toilet is not a crayon”

“I SPY: Firearms Addidtion”

“Fun Things to Drink Under the Sink”

“Things That Go Bump in the Night: Why Mommy and Daddy Wrestle After You Go to Bed”

“Worlds Unexplored: The Liquor Cabinet”

“Clifford the Big Red Dog Meets the Speeding School Bus”

“Surprise! You were Adopted”

The Trilogy:
“Santa AKA Mom and Dad”
“Easterbunny AKA Mom and Dad”
“Toothfairy AKA Mom Dad”

“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer gets Stoned”

And books, said to be printed:

1. The Lovables in the Kingdom of Self-Esteem

2. Inside of Me I Have Feelings

3. A is for Adopted (note: this is part of a whole series of “issue” books, including N is for No Smoking)

4. When I’m Happy I Smile

5. Don’t Let Your Heart Feel Funny

6. Sadie Learns a Lesson

7. The Land of the Boo-Boos

8. Dolores the Horse and Her Parents’ Divorce
9.  How did you happen?

10. Grandpa’s Fishin’ Friend (by My Grandma & Me Publishers, no less)

11. Catchin’ Cooties Consuelo

12. The Organic Adventures of Tyrone the Tomato

13. Disabled Fables

14. Bertha Bunny’s Big Mistake

15. Today I Am Lovable ( . . . Tomorrow, not so much?)

16. The Big, Bad, Bully Bear

17. Manners Can Be Fun

Never trust communication through a medium 17 November 2009

PS: fastforward to 5 min. 

 

Copyright – good or bad? 15 November 2009

Should music and movies be available for free on the internet, or should everyone who tries to upload or download it be punished?

 

As far as remixing goes, (like in the documentary) I don’t think it should be illegal, but I do not see the point of it. We have all the opportunities in the world
and with only our fantasy that stops us from creating new, music, film, well everything, so why waste time redoing someone else’s work? It’s like reinventing the wheel over and over again.

 

I found it a bit crazy that an artist got sued for using another artist music, when the sample only contained three seconds of the song. But when I think of it in another perspective, I woudn’t want someone else to steal a good piece of music that I had made.

 

Maybe be can come up with a system that pays the artist, while the users can listen to their music for free. Oh, wait..
it already exists. But how many people actually uses that? It can’t be that many, or the artists wouldn’t complain.

 

My opinion is that the artist should get paid for their work, if people like it. Like in any other business.
And that people should be able to listen to their work.
However, like in any other business the consumers should pay for the product.
( But which student actually wants to pay for things? )

 

I also feel that stealing someone else’s work to make money of it or claim it to be your own work, is deeply wrong.
But to use the same work, as in listening to music, watching a movie etc should be okay, even if it comes from downloading.
And I now that what I’m saying makes no sense. So In other words, I don’t really know how I feel when it comes to right or wrong, since downloading has always been something that happens ( I don’t download, because I don’t know how to do it.. )

 

I would like to know more about copyright before I comment on such things, and I must say I had the chance at the copyright lecture.
But even though Staffan Teste clearly knew what he was talking about, there was no coincidence that only 20 persons still remained in the room after 3½ hours. So at say.

 

We are SO not evil! 13 November 2009

when humour is the only thing you have left – just smile 13 November 2009

Swine flu hysteria 12 November 2009

Poor update here – my bad!

I actually watched “Good copy, bad copy” i WEEK ago..I just haven’t got the energy to write anything that requires thinking..

 

As some of you may have noticed, I’m not 100% healthy at the moment. Not even 50%…

I’ve been home for three days, and every single day I have called the hospital just trying to get an appointment to see what is wrong with me. But no.

 

And this is the “funny” part, do you know why they don’t wanna see me? Because I’m sick.

 

Excuse me, but is’nt that the doctors job!? To see and cure sick people. Maybe, just MAYBE they should have thought about that before they became doctors..

It’s like trying to get an appointment at the dentist but not succeed because “you have holes in your teeth”. Stupid Swedish system.

 

The only thing the woman at the hospital tells me everytime I call is: “Just stay at home, isolated, see if it gets worse and if you have problems breathing then call us again”.

 

Uhm.. excuse me.. but isn’t it just a bit too late when I can’t breathe!? How am I suppose to call the hospital without air? Idiots.

And the only thing she did was to laugh at me.

 

 

I know this isn’t the funniest post, but it’s important. Why? Because the doctors wont see me because they think I have the swine flu.

First of all, it IS their job to cure people. Second, people die like flies because doctors tell them to stay home and call when they are already dead.

 

I don’t have the swine flu. Because if I had it, I would have a 40 degrees fever now, just like yesterday. But I don’t.

However, I’m still too weak to move a longer distance.

 

 

Don’t believe everything that media tells you, just trust your own body. And screw the doctors.

 

 

 

What if… 05 November 2009

http://www.wwwdotcom.com/

http://www.weirdity.com/internet/eoti.html

http://www.slutet.se/

MKV students, please don’t make stupid mistakes 01 November 2009