Facebook trouble?

In this article called "Facebook is using you" the author Lori Andrews talked about how Facebook is making money by advertising and that how people can look up what you do on the Internet and judge you by it. They talk about how you would get denied for something for the wrong thing you put on the Internet and what you talk about. You put a lot of personal information of yourself on the Internet and colleges, jobs and the IRS could deny you. The people you look you up are called "data aggregators". The article says "If I've googles "diabetes" for a friend or "date rape drugs" for a mystery story I'm writing, data aggregators assume those searchers reflect my own health and lifestyle.

I think that it is bad for people to look you up on the Internet and see what you are talking about. If you look up the wrong thing you could be denied of something and it could effect your life dramatically. After reading this i am more concerned about what i put online because if i write something weird it can affect me later in life, colleges might not accept me and jobs might not hire me. I think the main point of this article is that she wants to inform readers how people can search you u and how the Internet and what you look up can affect you. Also to tell you how you should use Facebook and other social networks carefully and be careful what you searched up.

back together.

Chris brown and Rihanna had a huge incident in 2008. Chris brown beat Rihanna in the car that day. After the incident Rihanna filed a restraining order against chris brown the same year. The news was filled with this news and everybody was so astonished that chris brown would do this.

Last year 2011, The restraining order was lifted and they called it off. Rihanna posted on twitter and asked her followers who should she have on her song "Birthday Cake", since the song was a half song. People said they want Chris Brown and it was done. Chris brown featured on the Birthday Cake remix song. After they declared that chris brown will be on the remix there were instant rumors that the old couple would get back together.

i think theres nothing wrong with them getting back together. if they can get over it, people should be able to get over it. There is no for sure answer if they are going to get back together so why is everyone even so hyped up about it. They just made 2 songs together and are now friends. They were at her birthday party and Hollywood Life said "At RiRi’s birthday party, it was pretty clear that she wanted Chris. 'Rihanna and Chris were very much together,' shares a witness. They arrived together around 1 am, and Chris stood by Rihanna as she cut into her birthday cake."

Criminal

In this article Michelle Alexander states that everyone is a criminal and that people who actually got caught commiting a crime get treated a different way than people who didn't get caught. She says "If everyone were forced to acknowledge their own criminality, maybe we, as a nation, would second-guess our apparent zeal for denying full citizenship to those branded felons." She that people who are labeled as criminals get treated bad and can't get their full rights back. Some can't vote, get jobs or even get in college. She gives an example and says that Obama admitted that he did illegal drugs in the past and isn't judged as a criminal because he hasn't went to jail for it but others are judged as a criminal because they got caught for it.

I think that she is right, people should have rights to do things after they get out of jail but i think it should be determined on what they did and how severe there crime was. For example if you still a shirt or maybe even driving drunk and you get caught they will send you to jail and judge you as a criminal and you maybe will not get your rights back but you should. As to if you rob a bank or kill someone you  should get some of your rights taken from you and should be labeled as a criminal. There are people who still candy from a store and there are people who robbed a bank and still get away with it, they are still criminals because what they did was against the law. There should be a scale or way to take the amount of rights from someone for the certain crime they did.

Photoshop.

This article is about how some celebrities photoshop themselves to make them look skinny and better looking then they actually are. Photoshop can take away pimples off your face and even make you skinny. It can change your appearance in amazing ways. Photoshop can make a unappealing person look gorgeous.  Dr. Farid and Eric Kee are proposing a software tool that will measure how much the photo have been altered or touched by photoshop, They are making the scale 1 to 5.

I think that altering a photo to make it look like women are perfect will definitely make other women self-esteem low, ex specially teenagers. If a teen looks at a picture of there role model or a picture of an actress that gets a lot of attention they would want to be like them and look like them. If the person there looking at in the picture looks flawless and super skinny the teenager would think their fat and would probably starve their selves or throw up. Teenager girls are very insecure and they want to look like girls that get a lot of attention so they would do whatever they can to reach that goal. If the actress they are looking at isn't even that skinny in person why would you want a child to think their fat or not appealing.

I think altered images should be labeled that it was altered in the magazines because teenagers would get depressed and insecure about themselves so if they know that the picture isn't real, they wouldn't really care.

Apple's problem

In the article "In chine, human costs are built into an iPad" they talk about problems that apple have been having. In the beginning they say how a employee, Lai Ziadong face blew up and his skin came off and shortly died after. The reason why he died is because the factory was having trouble with aluminum dust and they already knew that aluminum dust was hazardous but they still went along with it. In the factory they had bad conditions and the workers complained a lot but apple didn't care. Apple kept denying the fact that it was bad, they said " Conditions at foxxconn are anything but harsh", they also said "Foxxconn has a safety record."

After the explosion they improved ventilation and dust disposal, and adopted technologies to have safety for the workers, but it was too late someone had already died. Most people said that they like apple and don't find anything bad about it and a little bit of people said bad things about it. Most people don't know about this and they continue to buy apple products.

I think that it is bad that some apple factories do not have good safety for the workers and that they could die any time if something slips up. Apple products are very good but i stil think they should make the workers feel safety. I own a apple product and it works very good. Hopefully apple protects their employees and no more explosions happen in factories.