Facebook is for popular people.
MySpace is for musical people.
Twitter is for famous people.
Bebo is for pedos.
Tumblr is for special people.
Found this just now.
It’s rather humerous, yet also contains some truth…mostly humerous though.
Digital Media - New Learners Of The 21st Century: Featuring the foremost thought leaders, innovators and practitioners in the field, Digital Media is a startling preview of a 21st Century education revolution.
Martin Baily, PhD, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, stated the following in a Feb. 15, 2008 entry titled “Is MySpace Good for Society? A Freakonomics Quorum,” from the “Freakonomics” blog hosted by the New York Times:
“Powerful new technologies provide great benefits, but they also change the way we live, and not always in ways that everyone likes. An example is the spread of air conditioning, which makes us more comfortable, but those who grew up before its invention speak fondly of a time when everyone sat on the front porch and talked to their neighbors rather than going indoors to stay cool and watch TV. The declining cost of information processing and communication represents a powerful new technology, with social networking as the most recent service to be provided at modest cost. It can be expected to bring pluses and minuses…
But will social networking sites really improve the quality of people’s lives? The pluses include easier contacts with friends, and increased chances to make new friends and create a community, as well as find romantic relationships. Even the advertising may be a plus, because it is targeted to the particular interests of the user.
The minuses are that all of this sharing can be dangerous, through gossip and potential abuse of the services. Examples include reported suicides linked to malicious gossip circulated on a social network. Some people become addicted to life on the computer screen, and withdraw from personal contact — it’s a long way from people sitting on the porch talking to friends and neighbors…
I am by inclination a technology optimist, believing that the bad things will be filtered out over time and net benefits will emerge. But in the early stages of any new technology, the buyer must beware.”
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Nicole Ellison, PhD, Assistant Professor of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University, stated the following in a Feb. 15, 2008 entry titled “Is MySpace Good for Society? A Freakonomics Quorum,” from the Freakonomics blog hosted by the New York Times:
“I believe the benefits provided by social network sites such as Facebook have made us better off as a society and as individuals, and that, as they continue to be adopted by more diverse populations, we will see an increase in their utility. Anecdotal evidence of positive outcomes from these technologies — such as political activities organized via Facebook or jobs found through LinkedIn — is well-known, but now a growing corpus of academic research on social networks sites supports this view as well…
Social technologies never have predictable and absolute positive or negative effects, which is why social scientists dread questions like these. In considering the effects of social network sites, it is clear that there are many challenges to work through — the increasing commercialization of this space, the need to construct strong privacy protections for users, and safety issues — but I believe the benefits we receive as a society provided by these tools far outweigh the risks.”
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Brendesha M. Tynes, PhD, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, stated the following in her Nov. 2007 article titled “Internet Safety Gone Wild?,” published in the Journal of Adolescent Research:
“Online social networking can facilitate identity exploration, provide social cognitive skills such as perspective taking, and fulfill the need for social support, intimacy, and autonomy. Whether constructing their profiles in MySpace, creating a video and posting it on YouTube, or talking in chat rooms, teens are constantly creating, recreating, and honing their identities — a primary goal of adolescent development. This requires constant reflection on who they are, on who they want to become, and on their values, strengths, and weaknesses.
As teens prepare to enter the adult social world, online social environments provide training wheels, allowing young people to practice interaction with others in the safety of their homes.”
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Christine Greenhow, EdD, Educational Researcher and Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Minnesota, stated the following about her research in a July 10, 2008 news release titled “Educational Benefits of Social Networking Sites,” posted on the University of Minnesota website:
“What we found was that students using social networking sites are actually practicing the kinds of 21st century skills we want them to develop to be successful today. Students are developing a positive attitude towards using technology systems, editing and customizing content and thinking about online design and layout. They’re also sharing creative original work like poetry and film and practicing safe and responsible use of information and technology. The Web sites offer tremendous educational potential.”
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The National School Boards Association (NSBA) stated the following in their July 2007 study titled “Creating & Connecting: Research and Guidelines on Online Social - and Educational - Networking,” posted on nsba.org:
“Almost 60 percent of students who use social networking talk about education topics online and, surprisingly, more than 50 percent talk specifically about schoolwork…
With words, music, photos and videos, students are expressing themselves by creating, manipulating and sharing content online…
Only a minority of students has had any kind of negative experience with social networking in the last three months; even fewer parents report that their children have had a negative experience over a longer, six-month period.”
Thought that I’d posted this but evidently I havn’t!
Before going shopping for the outfits I had drawn up some designs/ideas of my own.
The outfits from L-R: Youtube, Facebook, MySpace, Tumblr. [one hadn’t been done for Twitter as we hadn’t decided on a final theme/stereotype for the network.
I quite like these designs, obviously the outfits changed whilst buying them because of what we could find in the shops and just generally wanting to change some of the garments.
Had the final shoot last weekend which I think went pretty well to be honest.
Had a few problems on the Friday as Ally’s sync lead wasn’t working properly so we couldn’t get anything done then like we had planned to. Luckily I had an infra red trigger somewhere at home so I went and had a look round for it that night and we started again on the Saturday. Everything went rather smoothly then - the lights were being triggered properly. We were having a couple of problems with the lighting at first as the shadows were a little harsh on the background, so I suggested moving the subject and the light closer to the background, whilst keeping them the same distance from each other; this worked and decreased the amount of shadow on the backgrounds.
Here’s what the set-up looked like:
This is the lighting set up that we used for our final shoot (and the test shoot). Really simple lighting, just a beauty dish in front and above the subject facing down at an angle. The backgrounds didn’t need lighting because they were coloured and it would’ve ruined the strong colours of them.
