Blog #4

ACLU: Facebook Password Isn’t Your boss’ Business

I read the article: “ACLU: Facebook Password Isn’t Your boss’ Business” This article is so relevant to today’s day in age.  All of the job interviews I hold in the future, I will probably be asked to show my Facebook or give a password so they can get onto my Facebook.

Facebook has become such a necessary requirement to anyone in this world for communication.  If we think back to a day without Facebook it would probably be a really hazy memory because it is such an important feature in our life. It is on our phones, ipads, computers, tablets, and everything that can have Wi-Fi. 

Giving a boss access to your facebook account could kiss your job goodbye.  You need to have a private life and giving him access to your life would be him knowing all the stuff that could be personal.  Personally I am considering deleting my Facebook to avoid future troubles I could potentially have.  You have a password for a reason; it is a privacy feature so only YOU can have access to your account.  It is not your bosses business.

In the article it states:

"It's an invasion of privacy for private employers to insist on looking at people's private Facebook pages as a condition of employment or consideration in an application process," attorney Catherine Crump said in a statement from the ACLU. "People are entitled to their private lives."

In conclusion, I believe giving access to anyone that is not immediately related to you is a violation of privacy and it can create serious consequences for you in the future.  People who give out their passwords to friends create their own problems but giving it to your boss is another story. It is technically against Facebook’s law to give out your password to anyone.  People are breaking that law every day and it needs to be controlled because peoples Facebooks are being hacked and it is dangerous to a person.  I am almost positive I will be deleting my facebook just because I don’t want to encounter these problems.

Blog # 4- Tech for business

If you were in the middle of a job interview and your potential boss asked for your Facebook password, would you give it to them? I’m sure this is one situation you never thought you would hear of never mind encounter, but unfortunately it’s happening more and more. A recent interview went some place that Justin Bassett, of New York, did not expect it to go just a few weeks ago when he was asked for his Facebook password in the middle of his meeting. Justin refused and was not offered the job because of the decision to not share his information. When we go through college we learn how to deal with different situations that may occur during an interview, this is not one that we are trained to deal with. If this were to happen to me I cannot sit here and say I would allow the company to do so. My Facebook is very clean and has nothing on it that I would not want anyone seeing, I just feel as though asking for something as personal as a password to a social network page has nothing to do with being hired for a company. What if we were to ask the potential employer what their e-mail password was, or how about reading their personal mail? Isn’t that the same thing? I understand that companies want the best candidates for their company; however there are so many more ways than snooping through a Facebook account that it can be done. The main issue with this new trend is whether or not it is legal to do so. The Facebook Company does have a policy, long story short, that your account is your account. The other issue is that companies are slipping this new little rule into contracts that have to be signed so the employee has no choice. After learning about this I want to ask you… Would you let your new boss have your password to your Facebook? If so why, if not why? All in all I do not agree with this concept; however it may make users think twice before posting on the site.

Extra Credit Blog

Google launches monthly user-activity feature

By Doug Gross, CNN updated 6:08 PM EDT, Wed March 28, 2012 | Filed under: Web

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/28/tech/web/google-account-activity/index.html

Recently the company that lets you use their website as a search engine "Google" has come out with a new way to track monthly user activity.  The reports of how much the user uses google do not just tell you however, users need to sign up in order to track this information.  Information such as your most popular search topics, number of emails and other account activity can be tracked with this new feature."Every day, we aim to make technology so simple and intuitive that you stop thinking about it -- we want Google to work so well it just blends into your life," Andreas Tuerk, a product manager for Google, wrote in the post. "But sometimes it's helpful to step back and take stock of what you're doing online."

Privacy advocates, including some in Congress, fear that puts too much personal information in the company's hands. But Google said it wouldn't be collecting any new information just collating what data it already had in a way that would be more clear and help create new products and features for its users. The new feature also allows you to track the different consoles you use to sign into google so even if your at someone else's computer it will still track the things you are doing on the internet at all times.  Knowing about your own google account helps with a number of different things that the explained in the article including your passwords which adds a extra level of security and the computer can know based on your own personal user activity.  


Having your privacy can be a difficult thing to track on the internet.  But having google track it for you sounds a little scary of an idea to me so I don't know if I would ever let it happen.  My apple computer currently tracks all my history anyway so I personally don't find a need to have to sign up for the new feature that google is trying to sell.  

Blog #4

THE BUZZ

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This is NOT a tech bubble

By Paul R. La Monica @lamonicabuzz February 6, 2012: 12:21 PM ET






This article describes the success and the failure of fortune 500 companies in the United States.  The article explains that the Nasdaq is at its highest level rating since 2000.  It also tells us that the tech companies that own stock like Facebook and Netflix are currently on the rise and helping make this level keep rising.  "If you want to declare that tech stocks are once again a bubble ... you'd be dead wrong.


What will Facebook do with its billions?


With the Nasdaq being 11% higher already so far this year people are starting to worry if a correction needs to be made because companies like Facebook and Apple just have so much money.  If a pullback were to happen it would probably be brief.  Even thought the Nasdaq is still high lately the index is still 44% below the all time highs, so a pullback likely would not happen still for quite awhile.


"Many of the big tech companies are in good product cycles, have recurring revenue streams and they are cheap," said Ted Parrish, co-manager of the Henssler Equity Fund (HEQFX) in Kennesaw, Ga. His fund owns big stakes in Apple, IBM (IBM, Fortune 500) and Qualcomm.

"Facebook is an outlier. You can't look at Facebook and say other techs are too expensive," Parrish added."

I personally believe it is hard to tell what to do with these big tech companies and how large they are getting along with the fact that they rake in so much profit.  Right now it seems to be a good thing for the economy and stock markets, However this could change in the rather near future.  With all these companies getting so big it could be close to time to have to do what some of the people in this article were worried about having a pullback.  Right now experts say there is no need for a change, so they should probably just keep it and not interfere. 

Internet Threat in NYC

Its a shame that we still have to deal with these threats. The good part is that we find them and put them to rest before anything major happens again. Sometimes i have to think that people are just parinoid and we really cannot blame them. However again there is a line where you have to understand that we have people in place to prevent anything bad from happening. People just need to start beliveing again that things will get better before they get worse, sometimes a task easier said than done. We have moving forward, and things are shaping up to be better. I know to say we just need to trust in the government and go about our regular lives is a simple and obvious tasks to do and sometimes harder but not to remember 9/11 but its what we have to do. Living in the past, living scared will never get us and this country back to where it was before. We have to move on while never forgetting the past. We as the people need to relax and just let the people in charge do their job, because they are working for us.

March Madness and Social Media

Its no secret that social media is apart of everything now whether it be for fun, or as a marketingt tool etc, its there and will be there for a long time. The bad part of social media is that soemtimes things get leaked or get out before the party it affects knows about the news. A lot of times you hear about professional athletes and coaches are asked, how did you find out about this news, and probably more than 75% of the time there answer is through twitter, or the news or something media related. Sadly thats how we communicate now for the most part, whether its texting, tweeting, facebooking its the new way of communicating. Especially tweeting now, twitter is one of the biggest and fastest growing social media network in the country. During the super bowl, world series, any major sporting event it just gets even bigger. During the NCAA Tournament or the term March Madness as the mouth of March has been dubed, social media activity was through the roof. We want news or stats or up to the minute scores all you need to do is go on twitter or some social media network. I use social media I have a facebook and twitte, and I think its a good tool to use, but there is a line, an invisable line that sometimes people cross. We have to remember about face to face, talking it out or talking to one another about things. Sure twitter and all that is good for like I said scores, new information but when coaches and players find out thing via twitter or social medias before hearing it from the cats mouth thats where the line is. Coaches and players shouldnt find out about things through social medias, like the peyton manning story. Jim Irsay the Colts Owner tweets more than anyone, and sometimes its best to just not say anything. He was always tweeting about Peyton and stuff like that when the stuff should have been handled face to face in house behind closed dorrs not out in public. Soical media is a great tool when used the right way.

TweetDeck bug gives access to other users' accounts

One thing that I wish I had heard from where the people who were affected by the tweet deck bugs. I wish I could have heard from the peoples whose accounts where broken into on accident because of the mistakes by the tweet deck bug. I felt as if this article bounced around because the video they showed had almost nothing to do with the discussion at hand. The video was about the founders of twitter mean while the article is about how a user warned tweet deck that they could tweet from other people’s profiles. Imagine all the people that were affected by that. If that individual didn’t warn them about the problem, there could have been more people hacking people’s accounts. Within the video they talk about how the founders left and that there was a group of people to replace them called the senior advisory group to take over the company. It made me ask myself did the founder leave because of this happening or what? Or did the founder leave because there are always problems with the site with different bugs and things going wrong with it. I remember this past year twitter stopped working because people were tweeting too much at one point. I believe it was during the time of Tim Tebow and his run as a quarter back for the Denver Broncos. When is the site going to be able to not have any bugs? I look at Facebook and see that they barley if at all have any problems, while twitter has problems a lot. I am not trying to bag on twitter because I am a user of the site and I love the site. What I am trying to say is that they need to improve the site so they can one day maybe surpass Facebook. Social media is an ever changing tool in our lives ten years ago it wasn’t even around. This is all new to us and new to the owners of these different sites and change is something that they are all about. In saying that it is not an excuse to have a bad site with bad bugs in it all the time. 





produced March 30th, 2012 

 http://money.cnn.com/2012/03/30/technology/tweetdeck-bug-twitter/index.htm