February+Grown+Up+Digital+Reflections

Grown Up Digital by Dan Tapscott

__Chapter 1__ This chapter made me think a lot about what life was like growing up with my parents. My sister and I were always ones to get things set up with our computer. My dad really wanted nothing to do with it, and he still doesn't. My mom has slowly gotten into the compter and is using it do do more than just browse. At first though, she was just amazed at the things that my sister and I could do. Once when we got a new computer, I started taking everything out of the box and hooking things up. She was get upset and wanted to make sure I new waht I was doing because I wasn't using insturctions and then before she new it, it was all hooked up and working. She was amazed, but it wasn't something that was too complex. This chapter talks a lot about the use of computer and how much the use of computer had risen over the past few years. It then went into a little about the laptop initiative some schools are taking on. I think that's a wonderful idea and just gives students more exposure to computer and how to use them, especially for those who don't have them at home.

__Chapter 2__ FACEBOOK! Need I say more. This social networking site has changed so much with peoples lives today. I found it very interesting how Mark Zuckerberg was creating this site and used it to ace his art history exam and the professor didn't view it as cheating rather he found it very pleasing how the students collaborated together.

It's amazing what Facebook can do to help others. Ourstage.com is a site that tries to promote upcoming musicians and filmamakers has exploded with growth with the help of social networking site such as Facebook and MySpce. Another thing that was very cook was how people protesting in Columbia to try and stop all of the violence, kidnapping, and the FARC used Facebook to get 260,000 members to try and get word out and try and end all of this violence that is taking place in Columbia. They were able to do all of this without having to go though political parties and being in full control.

Facebook is being used for many good thing, but now there is beginning to arise many questions of peoples priavcy, and what's left of peoples privacty who are on Facebook. With over 70 million users, most people can find out anything they want to about anyone by searching as people aren't using very much privacy protection. To what extent do people want to give out all of their personal information? All it seems that one needs to do is stay away from downloading the new app features, but those and the new "neat" things that just add to your Facebook and make it that much more advanced in what it can go. Lastly with the privacy issue, it's great how 911 can use technology to determine your location, but I think it's creepy how the site Loopt.com can help you locate your friends who have internet access on their phones. I think that's just too weird to be able to know exactly where you friend or whoever is at all times.