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Teens Technology Social Media, A Study
People share information on The Social Media.
Teens also do.
Despite warnings about the fact that the information shared in the Social Media is likely to be misused, they still do.
So is chatting online.
The probable reason is the basic Gregarious instinct of man, the urge to be with people and share.
Why on the Social Media and not in person?
How Teens use Social Media.
When you share information with a person, you are physically aware of his presence and ou are reticent about sharing your information.
This becomes difficult when the person whom you are sharing with happens to be your parents , relatives and even friends.
You are not sure how the divulging of the information will affect you.
Now this block exists even among friends!
Now I find that there few lasting friendships, but only ‘hi how are you”(there are exceptions).
So you have to share, but safely.
In a Social media, you do not physically see the person, you feel secure(in fact you are not, this is more dangerous as you do not know the person)
I checked with adults who engage themselves in chatting with unknown people of the opposite Sex,same-sex.
They are aware that the information will be misused.
The reason they informed me is that they can exchange lewd comments and things which they can not express in the Society openly, put it bluntly they can indulge in Sexual perversions, expressions , not approved by the Society.
There is a detailed Study by PEW Research center, on the behavior of Teens, Social media and Technology.
Excerpts.
Teens Behavior, Social Media
Teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they have in the past, but they are also taking a variety of technical and non-technical steps to manage the privacy of that information. Despite taking these privacy-protective actions, teen social media users do not express a high level of concern about third-parties (such as businesses or advertisers) accessing their data; just 9% say they are “very” concerned.>>
- Teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they did in the past. For the five different types of personal information that we measured in both 2006 and 2012, each is significantly more likely to be shared by teen social media users in our most recent survey.
- Teen Twitter use has grown significantly: 24% of online teens use Twitter, up from 16% in 2011.
- The typical (median) teen Facebook user has 300 friends, while the typical teen Twitter user has 79 followers.
- Focus group discussions with teens show that they have waning enthusiasm for Facebook, disliking the increasing adult presence, people sharing excessively, and stressful “drama,” but they keep using it because participation is an important part of overall teenage socializing.
- 60% of teen Facebook users keep their profiles private, and most report high levels of confidence in their ability to manage their settings.
- Teens take other steps to shape their reputation, manage their networks, and mask information they don’t want others to know; 74% of teen social media users have deleted people from their network or friends list.
- Teen social media users do not express a high level of concern about third-party access to their data; just 9% say they are “very” concerned.
- On Facebook, increasing network size goes hand in hand with network variety, information sharing, and personal information management.
- In broad measures of online experience, teens are considerably more likely to report positive experiences than negative ones. For instance, 52% of online teens say they have had an experience online that made them feel good about themselves.
- Source:
- http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Teens-Social-Media-And-Privacy/Summary-of-Findings.aspx
Easy Steps To Read Chinese.
I came across an article in Forbes, outlining some simple tips to read Chinese Language.
Being one of the earliest languages and can rightfully boast of a highly evolved Culture,I regret that China has been being the bamboo curtain.
The rulers in China seem to believe that even opening up of information on Chin’s Culture might hurt their present political Culture, thereby affirming that their present reign is contrary to Chinese Cultre of yore.
It is a shame that one is left with scant information on one of the world’s earliest civilizations.
I am posting excerpts fro the article which teaches one to read Chinese.
Story:
ShaoLan introduced her system in a rousingly well-received TED talk in February in Long Beach, Calif., the video of which should go live in May. She says she’s gotten more than a thousand emails and LinkedIn invites since then from people who want to get started. In the meantime, she has published a Facebook page introducing her concept. (If you go to the Facebook page, you have to start from the bottom of the timeline and work up, because the lesson follows a particular order.) She’s also published a charming placeholder of a Web site here.
“ren,” the radical for person, illustrated with head and feet:
Two people make the word follow. Three is a crowd. A person with arms stretched wide is “big.” A person inside a mouth is a prisoner.
Source:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2013/04/25/learn-to-read-chinese-in-eight-minutes/
Bank Robbery By US Defense Intelligence Agencu
A Government Agency stealing?
Yes.
But it appears that the Defense Intelligence Agency did so to ‘testing the security of Washington-area banks’
The Story:
In a white-walled interrogation room in a small Virginia police station last June, two detectives were trying to get Herson Torres to crack. Surveillance video tied him to two attempted bank robberies in the area during the past week. The skinny 21-year-old didn’t have a criminal record and seemed nervous, but he wasn’t talking. The detectives showed him pictures of his brother and father. They told Torres he could be sent to prison for as many as 25 years.
Defense Intelligence Agency ,US.
“If I tell you, you’re not going to believe me,” Torres said. He was crying as he told them an incredible story about being recruited by the Defense Intelligence Agency to participate in a secret operation testing the security of Washington-area banks. He said he’d been assigned to rob a half-dozen banks over four days. And he told them about Theo, the man who hired him and gave all the orders—even though Torres had never met him.
Angry, his interrogators accused him of making up a ridiculous story. Still, Torres persuaded them to look at the text and e-mail messages on his cell phone; he also gave them the password to his Facebook (FB)account and urged them to retrieve a copy of the Defense Intelligence Agency immunity letter from his glove compartment. The police locked up Torres on a charge of attempted robbery and examined the evidence. By the end of the night, they weren’t sure what was going on, but they suspected Torres might be telling the truth.
H.Torres.
Torres’s unlikely entry into the covert world of retail bank security testing had begun seven days earlier, he said. He had returned home from unloading trucks at Target (TGT) when his phone lit up with a text message from an old friend. “Hey, I got this job for you where you’re going to get paid 25K,” Carolina Villegas wrote. “Doing what?” Torres asked. “Robbing banks,” she texted.
Source:
Blogs Influential Than Tweets, Study-Naturally
A Study reveals that Blogs are more influential tha Tweets and Social Media.
I understand that.
I am of the view that blogs are more detailed, reasoned and informative than Tweets.
Tweets are generally your opinion or impressions to a story or News.
Here you do not the luxury of reasoning out your views.
Tweets and Social media Communications are essentially a communication between a Group or Groups, while blogs target a larger audience.
In Social Media like Facebook, you first express your interest, likes to make people find you.
In Blogs, you leave the material and let the Reader take find you.
Being better reasoned out pieces Blogs tend to have better credibility.
Attention Span is more for a Blog.
I have assumed, in this exercise that Tweets,Social Media Messages, to be good ones.
Surprising that in the story WordPress which ,
“WordPress.com users produce about 49.3 million new postsand 50.7 million new comments each month and
Over 378 million people view more than 4.0 Milliarden pages each month.”
doesn’t get mentioned in The Story!
Story:
Reading the mainstream media you would think the social web started solely comprised of Twitter, and people’s 140 character messages. Any brand not taking part is surely doomed.
Not so, as new research shows that not only do blogs still have tremendous influence, they actually drive more sales than other forms of social media.
We saw some evidence of that last week with news that Tumblr now hosts more than 100 million blogs.
Confirmation comes in the Technocrati 2013 digital influence report. It show that blogs were one of the most trusted forms of online media, with 31% of respondents being influenced to purchase via blogs, the third highest after retail sites (56%) and brand sites (34%). I may be biased, but I’d suggest this rather shows the value of marketers and the brands they represent engaging with relevant high profile bloggers in their field.
As you can see from the graphics below, Pinterest, Twitter and Instagram, for all the hype around them, rank among the lowest influencers of purchases.
Online Purchases likely to Influence.
MediaBistro’s All Twitter blog rightly points out that there is a discrepancy between influence, and what brands spend on social and digital marketing:
“Budget-wise, brands are spending only 10% on social, more than half of which goes to Facebook (57%). YouTube and Twitter each get 13% of the brand digital budget, while about 6% is spent on influencers and 5% advertising on blogs.”
While it’s understandable that a bulk of money goes on Facebook, which is still influential, quite clearly some more of that digital marketing budget needs to start swing the way of bloggers and influences – only 11% does so far, despite the clear trust that consumers have for blogs. Brands are spending money to drive likes, and consumers are sharing content, but they are turning to blogs they trust to guide making purchases.
Customers like to ‘follow’ and ‘like’ brands to keep up to date with them, they very rarely use them to make purchases:
Why consumers Follow Brands.
http://wallblog.co.uk/2013/04/02/blogs-still-more-influential-than-twitter-says-study/
http://en.wordpress.com/stats/
Related articles
- 14 Twitter Mistakes to Avoid (business2community.com)
Funny Messages Auto Correct
Short Forms used in Messages and Texting are really difficult
. The keys are so small you tend to press the wrong one.
Result ‘hilarity!
Some time it might be due to talking or writing in a flash.
With the same results.
Couple of days ago, I had to use the Call Center of Eureka Forbes for a defective water purifier.
Despite three reminders, no body bothered, worse, they kept on asking the same information I have provided already.
I was annoyed and wanted to tell them that the conversations are being recorded,and instead using them to find faults with the Girls who makes calls(TeleCallers), the Organisation might listen to it for understanding the customer.
I ended up saying,
‘ ‘I know the conversation is being recorded. Instead of trying to find fault with the Call Girls,one might attend to understand the Customers!”
MOM’s understanding of Text.
Farting?
See you dead!
Drugs?
Orifice?
Boobs?
Perspiration?
Poop or Pop?
Dick, Nick or Flick?
