Yong Mei New Media

I think the main difference between blogs and wiki's is that blogs share one person's idea where wiki's is a collaboration of ideas. What you post in a blog is your own idea whereas what you post on a wiki can be edited by someone else and vice versa. In the New York Times article, "Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid" by Michael Wilson, blogging helped the police out, "the bloggers seemed to know, sometimes chronicling daily activities in details" this shows how blogs are one person's perspective. Both are created by individuals. One use that be used for a wiki that hasn't been done yet is posting directions. I know there is apple and google maps but sometimes they can be very difficult to read or understand and sometimes they are just wrong and at the end of the day. I rather trust a person that has been to the location tell me how to get there rather than a computer. The main issue with this and all wikis is trust. However, in the New Yo

I chose to do my project on Social Networking: a purposeful loss of privacy because I think this applies to everyone who has social media. I want to talk about we willingly share our lives online to other people. For me, I rarely use social media but the things people are willing to share is too much in my opinion. Social media isn't private you aren't really sharing with your close friends but sharing with everyone, sure you can set your accounts to private but I highly doubt anyone will just have like 5 friends on Facebook or Instagram, they usually add people they met a couple of times or sometimes just hit the accept friend request button. There is also another side to this, some people have made a career of sharing their entire lives through "vlogging". So they in a sense sacrificed their privacy for fame and money. I also want to touch upon FOMO (Fear of missing out) because I think this is a consequence of social media. FOMO is basically when you see other peop