Facebook Patent
2/26/2010 3:09:13 PM
The patent office is outdated and needs to be closed. This is ridiculous. So what because you have now awarded a patent on something that everyone is already using everyone should now stop. That is ridiculous. Either issue patents faster or once a technology or concept is shown to be working in several areas then it should not be allowed a patent.
Facebook was awarded a patent for streaming news feeds on social sites. This can and will effect many sites and all it will do in the long run is shut down new services that are trying to compete in this space. I just don’t know how this can be allowed to happen.
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Social Media Policing
2/25/2010 3:29:13 PM
How do you monitor social media to ensure that only respectful and decent users are using the services? Well you can’t. That is of course if you want your service to be free.
In order to ensure that the users of a site are valid users and not children trolling the internet looking to cause trouble, you have to ask for personal information to be supplied. No one wants to provide you with a valid credit card when you are not purchasing anything. This is probably the only way to ensure that users are who they say they are. The only way to stop people making vulgar, racist, and inappropriate comments online is to make it so that they know they can be tracked.
Right now there are many free email sites. So if you want to attack someone or post derogatory comments you can easily setup one of these free accounts and use that to create accounts on pretty much all of the social media type sites. There is nothing needed to create these accounts. The policies of all these sites suggest that they will shut down your access for offensive stuff. So what the user just creates another new account and moves on. This is not slowing or hindering this process at all.
This past week a new site Chat Roulette started getting some notable press. This site does not require you to log in at all. No account information is needed at all. Is it good to have sites like this. First thing I saw on this site was inappropriate behavior from the majority of men. The other thing I saw was kids trying to pick fights. How does this benefit the social web? In my mind it doesn’t.
At this time there isn’t much anyone can do about the trolls on the internet. The first step in this battle is communication and that communication begins at home. The site I referenced above requires nothing to log on and in 5 minutes of being on the site I saw several naked men. You have to watch your children closely when they are online and you have to teach them right from wrong. They don’t just need to be told what sites you don’t want them to visit, but they need to understand how to figure out if a site is a bad site.
Protect yourself and your family online by learning as much as possible about this and following blogs that talk about the pitfalls online.
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