This article talks about how children have been left to become internet addicts and how it's being damaging to their lives. "Little care with collateral damage". The writer/journalist states how they had walked into their kitchen with a dozen kids all sitting in silence on their phones and how it has been quite a few months since they had last seen anyone without their phones or computers. Girls (within the article) seem to have a social pressure, they need to stay in touch with friends and worry about being unfriended on social networks, they fall in love with someone they've rarely spoken to face to face. They also have anxiety of being left out of social events and groups due to not being kept up to date with friends and technology. The journalist states "What surprised me was the anger of many teenagers who, in turn, felt abandoned by parents whose own eyes were fixed on electronic devices." The journalist also says how even major businesses are at fault, they entice children/teens to buy their products but do not care for the consumer after purchase, they don't guide them much which leads to collateral damage. "Asking a young person to put down their Xbox, shut their computer or stop looking at their smartphone is like asking an alcoholic to put down their drink." What teens do, see or say on the internet can affect their virtual self but can also affect their real lives. Something which once was seen as an endless opportunity window is now slowly enslaving humans one by one.
"As teenagers increasingly learn about sex from pornography, their sexual norms change. I sat with a group of boys who, when asked about where they imagined ejaculating, took more than 20 minutes and considerable prompting to come up with a word that indicated vagina. "In the face", "over the tits", "up the arse" and "blow job" came to their minds immediately – they were all 15. One young woman had only ever been "in love" online, but had worked as an escort from the age of 17. She was one of many who confided that, though they could perform a whole series of sexual acts confidently, they felt inhibited about making themselves vulnerable emotionally. "Porn is great and it's free but it ruins love for us all," said one 15-year-old boy ruefully."
It's true that it seems that we live in a society addicted to social media and keeping in contact is essential to many but I think eventually everyone will realise that it's not important to always be connected and that parents need to look over their children but not constantly, children can be protected and guided but only in certain situations, parents need to learn about the pros and cons of the internet and how to use the internet to guide their children and protect them.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/13/abandoned-children-internet-addicted-virtual-damage
'Don't fly @BritishAirways'? How to humiliate brands via social media
This article is about how a man was so upset with the loss of his father's luggage that he paid $1000 (£640) to promote the tweet 'Don't fly @BritishAirways' as a way to get his story heard and due to the promotion of the tweet, media outlets and many internet users have seen and heard about this horrendous treatment to customers. "The fine art of complaining has come a long way thanks to technology. Back in the pre-digital day you had to sit down and write a strongly-worded letter if you wanted to call out brands behaving badly."
Bashtag is one way in which twitter users use hashtags to rant about issues they've had with businesses. Starbucks, after not paying tax, were inviting twitter users to post happy holiday messages above the national history museum with the #SpreadTheCheer and visitors to the museum were greeted by tweets along the lines of "Hey #Starbucks PAY YOUR F*CKING TAX #SpreadTheCheer" another example is McDonalds who allowed visitors to share their stories with them over twitter, one of which was "When I walked into McDonalds I could smell type2 diabetes floating in the air and I threw up"
Game google is another way of using the internet for help "Google isn't just a search engine, it's a reputation engine. Like it or not, in the eyes of many, you are what you are on Google. And, for several years, former Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum found that what he was on Google was a "frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex." This, by the way, wasn't down to a series of questionable decisions by the OED, but the result of a carefully orchestrated campaign by columnist Dan Savage. After Santorum ludicrously compared homosexuality to bestiality in a media interview, Savage gamed Google's search algorithm so that the first result for Santorum that came up linked to a what the New Yorker described as the "unprintable definition" Savage had created to protest Santorum's homophobia."
Wifi network names are an interesting way of making your issues noticed, some people make their name creatively like "PrettyFlyForAWifi" while others may rant about their neighbours music taste saying "YourMusicSucks".
ending story to the lost luggage "While some casual bashtagging or Google-bombing may be cathartic, sometimes catharsis is the only payoff. However, it looks like Syed's $1,000 BA-bashing may have resulted in more than just a warm flush of vengeance. As well as providing fleeting fame, it also seems to have delivered his luggage. Early this morning Syed tweeted "I got what I wanted. I win." Revenge may be a dish best served cold but sometimes, it seems, a little digital degradation can make for a satisfying hors d'œuvre."
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/04/humiliate-global-brands-british-airways
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