Why we need to be not completely honest on facebook.
http://www.grahamjones.co.uk/2012/blog/internet-psychology/dont-be-too-honest-on-facebook.html

New draft

Introduction


Addiction of Social Networking
Why can't we get off from social networking.
How Facebook designed to keep its users keep logging in.
What are the consequences, results on user's behavior
Everything is connected to Facebook.

What social network provides?
New platform of communication.
Power of individualism, voice of people unleashed.
Tools of democracy, or weapon of anarchism?

Effects of social networking. 
Everyone now has a voice, a brief moment to shine.
Narcissism and attention seeking behavior.
Building one's self reputation.
We are connected, but we are getting lonelier than before.

Conclusion.

Facebook is making us much lonelier from each other.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/is-facebook-making-us-lonely/308930/

What to write:

Introduction:
Facebook as popular culture. Why Facebook stands out. What Facebook have that Friendster and Myspace doesnt.

Content:  
How it gathers everyone with same interest together.

• Facebook speed up the gathering of people who has same interest. 
• A space for anyone who voice up their opinion, tools of democracy. 
• The neighborhood relationship, brought the world closer together.
  

Significance of Facebook in daily life, how the generation is attached by it.

• How are we so plugged in that we cannot escape from it.
• Everything is integrated with Facebook. (Mainstream media, the news, even other social network)
• Ease of sharing social media content.

How Facebook changed our social behavior

• The chancs to rebuild our identity, Are we who we are created inside Facebook.
• Altruism? or just building own reputation.
• There comes a time when you have to shout, to fight, for what you want. Because everyone has a voice. How Facebook turned our privacy into profit.
• Side effect of the neighborhood relationship, privacy, village between village inside the neighborhood, terms of friends rewrote.

Conclusion:
Facebook culture, harm or benifit? Can we ever escape Facebook?

The Facebook Effect

Facebook's Impact: A Return to Neighborly Communication
"The world historically was a world of villages and small towns," he says. "In a village you hear everybody's business."
But in recent history, more people are now living in big urban cities and not in small towns, he notes.
"Isn't it interesting that at exactly that moment, the most popular software ever invented for communications is one that creates that 'over the backyard fence quality' of the small town?" Kirkpatrick says. "I think people are living in cities and they want to know about people and Facebook makes it easier."
In 2010 Americans spent an average of 25 minutes a day on Facebook, according to comScore. More than 125 billion people had made connections on the social media site by the end of March 2012. In the first month of this year, users uploaded more than 300 million photos per day on Facebook.
"I think it has changed the way people relate to one another," Kirkpatrick says. "It has changed the visibility people have into one another's lives [and] you know everything your neighbors do."

Facebook's Impact: A Driver for Democracy
With roughly 80% of Facebook's monthly users located outside the U.S. and Canada, it is no huge surprise that Facebook is responsible for sparking the uprisings in the Middle East at the beginning of 2011, which started in Tunisia after a man selling fruits and vegetables set himself on fire in a market. He had been humiliated when police demanded him to hand over his cart for not having a permit.
His personal revolt ignited protests in Tunisia which spread to Egypt, Libya, Syria and Yemen.
"Facebook was gigantic in the Arab Spring and in every other political uprising that we have heard of in Spain and the Occupy Movement because people do not think of it as a political act," say Kirkpatrick. "[Users] just update their status on Facebook" and "their friends see it and they are broadcasting without evening knowing it."
In 2009, a video showing the death of a young female Iranian protester, named Neda, shot by a government gunman gripped the world. The video went viral with the help of Facebook and other social media networks.

Facebook's Impact: Makes Sharing Media Content Easy
Facebook has forever changed the way people share media content with their friends — almost every site today has a "like" button for users to share content.
"The media recognized that if they do not have the ability to make it easy for people to share their content on Facebook, they are going to be in trouble," says Kirkpatrick.
An average of 3.2 billion "likes" and "comments" were generated every day in the first three months of the year.

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/facebook-effect-social-network-changed-world-122656206.html

Idea:

Facebook culture may be fatal
Generation Y and facebook. Started as college students facebook were filled with a lot of private lifestyle stuffs, but facebook doesnt follow the growth of human being! Gen Y graduates eventually got a job and turned to privacy of facebook account but after years of being tagged it is really hard to hide their past from curious colleagues.

Initially, facebook were a free gift, users are free to vusualize express a
nd expand but latter turned into profit. Ads and commercialized facebook trying to take back these gifts by invading privacy and rediculous terms.

1. It is taking back a free gift. In order to build profits, Facebook has been commercializing and monetizing friendship networks. What Facebook gave to Millennials, it is now trying to take away. Millennials are resisting the invasion to their privacy.
2. Facebook is ignoring the aging of the Millennials and the subsequent change in their culture. Older Gen Yers want less sociability and more privacy as actors outside their trusted cohort enter the Facebook space in search of information and connection. These older Millennials want more privacy tools for control of their information and networks.

Facebook is behaving as though it owned not only its proprietary technology platform but the friendship networks created on it. It doesn't. Millennials believe that ownership of their networks of friends belongs to them, not Facebook, and resist their commercialization.

Giving economic value to social networks is the new holy grail in advertising and the media. An army of economists and mathematicians are at work on this task. To date, most of the work has focused on metrics — how many friends, how many linkages, how much influence. Facebook's problems with privacy highlight the need to understand culture as well.

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/05/facebooks_culture_problem_may.html

Digital Culture by Charlie Gere

Chapter 7. Ignore warning

Transformation of media brought about by new technology are transforming how we think about ourselves. We are no longerpassive consumers but actively producers. 

How we consume media, new technology are changing our relation to media in a profound and radical way.

Infinite shelf space (example iTunes) 

many downloads available in just one site, multifarious ways objects such as tunes can occupy dimensions can be found and reppropriated. Selling a large number of things, online-commerce. Invert traditional form of the market. 

Anarchism, people control on their own media instead of being controlled by it.

Forms of new media affecting the older mainstream media, broadcast are accompanied by web page links. Encouraged to broadcast themselves to be visible. 

Browsing, explorative and voyeuristic, individual pages are encouraged to be customized.

Users of social network not bounded by physical location but united through shared interest with the new self-definition by media.

“in the future Everybody will be famous for fifteen minutes” Andy Warhol.

Entering a new ”participatory culture” of greater cooperation or solidarity, or alternatively our digital culture runs the risk of producing a pandemonium of competing media noise, self-promotion and meaningless disembodied interaction, in an increasingly atomized society. 

We are bound together but separated by the globalized network of information communication technologies.

Rewriting the term of “friendship” , politics of friendship.  New conception between self, and other and new understanding of community.

Answering the question before, and relate it back to facebook.

Q1: Are online relationships narrowly specialized or broadly supportive?
Although topic can be specific but online groups tends to be supportive.
Even if online groups are not designed to be supportive, they tend to be.

Online or offline, weak ties are more apt than strong ties to link people with different social characteristics. The kind of people one know, is more important than the number of people you know. People were able to solve problem when they received suggestion online from people with wide range of social characteristics than when they received suggestion from a larger number of socially similar people.

Giving support in a virtual community arise when we consider that information exchanged online are between strangers, having only weak ties.

Virtual Community Affecting “real life” community?
-People phone each other although it is in the same neighbourhood.
-People do not really distinct neatly people only talk online,  or met in real life.
-Relationship is the important thing not the communication medium.
-Net facilates the relationship of weaker ties.
-More than supporting community ties, supplies companionship, supportiveness, information and sense of identity.

Strong ties = socially similar.
Weaker ties = distant acquitances.

Net helps to connect people develop new connection.
So it does increase diversity.

Are virtual communities “real” communities?

Computer mediated communication accelerates the ways in which people operates at the centers or partial, personal communities, switching rapidly and frequently between group of ties. People has enhanced ability to move between replationships. At the same time, more individualistic behavior means the weakening of the solidarity that comes from being in densely knit, loosely bounded group.

Virtual communities provide possibilities for reversing the trend to less contact with community members because it is easy to connect online with large numbers of people. Communities such as online chat groups stimulate communications, can talk casually like a barroom conversation and know the friends of their friends.

Net accelerates the trend of moving community interaction out of public spaces, intergrating society and foster social trust. The architecture facilates weak and strong ties arcoss different people, social links between group are socially and physically dispersed.

Communities in Cyberspace (Cont.)

Wellman, B. Gulia, M.
Can people find community online in the internet? Can relationships online be supportive and intimate?

Fear of people gets so engulfed in a simulacrum virtual reality, that will leads to lost contact in real life.  Latest communication and technology allows maintenance of relationship over long distances.
Facebook existed as a social network of kon, friends, and workmates who do not necessarily live in the same neighbourhoods.

People are not going back for the village behavior but the whole world is becoming a sole village with everyone together inside. This conceptual revolution moved  from defining co,,unity in terms of space – neighbourhood – to defining in term of social networks.

Communities in Cyberspace

Interesting site -> :http://www3.uji.es/~aferna/H44/Cultural-implications.htm

Notes:

Ethos – character or tone of a speaker.  (Group qualify.)
Delivery -  Speaker’s gesture and expression, (delivery)
Online communication , speed, reach and durability of messages.
Quick, cheap and more efficiently.

PROTEST WORKS not because of quick cheap efficiency, BUT ALSO STRONG COMMUNITY ETHOS tht focused participants. Specialized discussion group brought people of similar interest together meant that participate were likely to share many assumptions and concerns. Facilating communication within group.  (Relate back to arab spring, Bersih 3.0? )

COST: inaccurate information, common ethos shared by many discourage challenges to the information, accept them blindly, forcing out dissenting voices

Online interaction creates new form if deceit and new ways to establish identities.
Despite new freedom if online interaction, old institutions and stereotypes are reproduced.

Commuties in Cyberspace (cont. )

Community is now conceptualized not in terms of physical prosimity but in terms of social networks as telephones, transportations made it possible to establish and sustain important social relationships outside one’s immediate physical neighbourhood. <----- (Mutual friends)

 

Home of thousands of groups of people discussing and share information, discuss mutual interest play games and carry out business deals. Some of this group are both large and well developed

Are online relationships supportive, useful?
Is there any attachment to online communities?
Strong relationship possible online?
Is Facebook real? Does it affect “real-life” community?
Does facebook increase community diversity.

Idea:

Facebook as a central hub and major sharing social network site:

-News are watched on facebook.
-Everything is uploaded on facebook first hand.
-How business relate their corporation to facebook to get closer to the customers.

Does all this question answer to "how facebook made cultural implications of their popularity.

Define cultural implications:

definition of implication:

1. The act of implicating or the condition of being implicated.

2. The act of implying or the condition of being implied.

3. Something that is implied, especially:

a. An indirect indication; a suggestion.

b. An implied meaning; implicit significance.

From: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Implications

So? connection/implication that culture has on the topic (how will culture be affected by your topic or how will culture affect your topic)
How Facebook, with their popularity, made a difference in culture.

Commuties in Cyberspace (cont. )

(Why facebook became so efficient? It contain most of the features. Tagging, Uploading, downloads, Chat, video chat, emails. private message etc. Cant really control all the activities, no central police, anarchism? now everyone can voice out, everyone can give opinion, everyone can contribute)

From: Step Up Revolution: Everyone has a voice, and there comes a time when you have to shout, to fight, for what you want. (narcism, attention seeking possible, business competition?)


From the book: 

Email is more odered and focused activity.  Controls the list of who can contributes and censor specific message that they do not want to contribute. This asynchronous media doesn’t need everyone gather at the same time as the interaction is structured into turns but reply can take few seconds to a long time.

 Bulletin board system (BBSs refined asynchronous communication, messages strung together one after another. Differ from Email, BBS requires user to select group and messages if they wanted to read and actively request them. Millions of messages from different people commenting and messaging would be carried over the social network. No central authority, single source or power that can enforce boundaries and police behavior. Most newsgroup are anarchic no central authority but have order and structure. Almost anyone can contribute, read the contents, creating a new group or just being sole contributer to one.

Text chats uses centralized server granting the server owner a great deal of power over access to the system and to individual channels. Controls who enters the chat and how many people can enter. Chat system support a great number of “channels” dedicated to a vast array of subject and interest.

Online interaction strips away race, gender, status and age. Online interaction, an individual’s beliefts and attitudes are used to make inferences about the individual’s race, rather than familiar route of inferring attitudes based on physical racial cues.

Images, sound, audio, and two-or three dimensional model spaces. Real-time video and audio interaction tool. Engagement in real-time audio conversation. Traditional status hierarchies and inequalities are reproduced in online interaction and perhaps even magnified.

Communities in Cyberspace. (Marc A. Smith and Peter Kollock)

NOTES: 

Communities in Cyberspace.
Edited by Marc A. Smith and Peter Kollock

Once a obscure and arcane set of technologies used by a small elite, are now widely used and the subject of political debate, public interest, and popular culture. The “information superhighway” competes with a collection of metaphors that attempt to lable and define these technologies. Others, like “cyberspace”, “the Net,” “online” and “the Web”, highlight different aspects of network technology and its meaning, role and impact. Computer networks allow people to create range of new social spaces in which to meet and interact with one another. 

Computer network are used to connect people to people. In cyberspace the economies of interaction, communication, and coordination are different than when people meet face-to-face. These shifts make the creation of thousands of spaces to house conversations and exchanges between far-flung groups of people practical and convenient. Thousands of groups formed to discuss about wide range of topic ranged from entertainments to complex collective projects. These are not only communication media – they are group media, sustaining and supporting many to many interactions. 
 

Highlights and positive effect of networks and the network is the benefit of democracy and prosperity. Al Gore(1993) Our new ways of communication will entertain as well as inform, they educate, promote democracy and save lives. Meanwhile in the process, lots of new jobs are created.

Individuals are trapped and ensnared in a “net” that predominantly offers new opportunities for surveillance and social control. Information technology has the obvious capacity to concentrate political power, to create new forms of social obfuscation and domination. However computer and network increases the power of individuals, network with increase strength of existing concentration of power.

Thoughts: is there a difference before the uprising of Facebook towards idea of Marc A. Smith and Peter Kollock?

Reference video.

Some infographics to get started with.

(idea) Facebook - center of all the people, linked  everyone together in a network, connects countless of applications made by prosumers. Everything get from facebook.

 

After watching this documentary, How Facebook Changed The World - The Arab Spring. It is just clear that the internet and social network just linked people with similiar interest together in a way more effecient and less profile together.

Chosen question.

8. Explore the significance of either the mobile phone or social networking websites in the 21st century. What are the cultural implications of their popularity?