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Privacy

New media is as broad as we want it to be. It can be from posting a video to uploading pictures on Instagram or even emailing some colleagues. When we post that video or upload that picture, it is perfectly reasonable to assume that that picture is out of our control. Much like our universe, the internet is also expanding so you never know how far that video or picture is going. You think that deleting it will remove it from the internet but it only removes it for you but not for everyone else because of our constant need to share everything we see. New media can overcome all geological boundaries so it is possible that your picture is in someones Whatsapp group chat in the other side of the world. This lack of privacy is a major issue with new media but it is supposed to make users from cautious and aware of the content that we let the world see. There should be a part of your life that the whole world does not need to see because then you do not own anything. Then you end up monetizi...
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P2P

File sharing is the action of distributing electronic formats of information such as pdfs, excels, jpegs, etc, across the internet. It is very beneficial to many people such as helping college students find pdf versions of overpriced textbooks or finding movies online for a Saturday night in. File sharing is a great benefit of the internet because it allows people from all over the world to come together and upload files in one location which the whole world has access to. P2P sharing, peer-to-peer, is where normal internet users share files for other normal internet users without the need of a regulated middle man. This keeps information unbiased and lets users explore everything that is offered from users around the world. Pirate Bay is a great example of a P2P file sharing site. It provides digital information on a surplus of topics in many formats. Another great example of a P2P file sharing site is RapidShare. In a NY Times article titled, "Should Online Scofflaws Be Denied...
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Social networking sites

I browsed through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram and I have found some components of them that are very similar. One thing that automatically caught my eyes was the use of the color blue. With the exception of Instagram, all the other three social media sites used blue as their default website color. I found out that blue is used because it is a more appealing and relaxing color. I changed my Twitter page to green because I found that to be a more appealing to me. Then I started to think about the notion that blue is a welcoming color and thought about the major banks in the US that use that color as well. Banks such as JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, and US Bankcorp also use blue as their primary color and it all made sense. Another interesting thing I noticed about these four social media sites is how often it reminds me to refresh the site for new uploaded content. This is an interesting way to keep people addicted to the site because they understand that viewers only want to...
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