Friday, April 13, 2012

Facebook is using you

Today I have read an article called Facebook is using you by Lori Andrews. The topic of this article is about  you watching yourself when your are posting  and searching on Facebook, twitter, myspace and so many other websites. When you pick like your favorite books, activities and what college you want to go to on facebook, ads that goes with the topic will pop or be on the side of your profile. For example, if you say you like Abercrombie & Fitch, Abercrombie & Fitch advertisements would come up and you can click on it or not but it will take you straight to the website. The main thing that had me shocked was that people can see your searching and the data that you have. As I am writing now they can see what I am doing. That is uncomfortable to me and maybe to many other people. That is basiclly invading your privacy and invading your personal information and so many other things.  The cookies in your computer is another thing about the advertisements. A cookie is a information storer that stores what you searched and shows advertisements  of what you like. In other country's it is different. They are not aloud to look at your data without your permission or unless you know. To me they should put that in all countries to give people privacy. Definetly in the United States of America. What is the point of looking at people data. This should stop immediately and changed to where you can't see the data like all the other country's.

6 college quirky money tricks

  http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2012/pf/college/1203/gallery.colleges-saving-money/?iid=HP_Highlight Today I am reading a article called "6 colleges quirky money Tricks." This article was publlished by a man named Blake Ellis. This story talks about having a bathroom with your name on it.  As included in the article, many people are giving over thousands of dollars to get their name on the bathroom. One of the reprensitives for Harvard Law school donated at least 100,000 dollars in return to get his father's name "William A. Falik" name engraved on the campus bathroom. This January, his father's name was engraved on the bathroom saying, "Falik Malik Mens Room, Gift of William A. Falik' 71, 2012." To have your name engraved on a campus bathroom is decent. When people go to use the bathroom, the first thing they will see when they open the door is your name. But it will be more better to do it for free. In my old school Walter D. Palmer Leardership Learning Partners Charter School, the name that was engraved on our school bathroom door was our founder of the school which was "Walter D. Palmer". Every single day I went to the bathroom I would always forget that his name was up their.  To see that every day made me proud because the founder of the school name is on  the bathroom and will always be remembered their. Also it was a reminder to me. Someday as I get older I will try to get my name engraved on a college or a school so people can remember me as they look outside the bathroom door.
    

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Randy Moss filed lawsuit

http://www.nesn.com/2012/04/report-randy-moss-filed-lawsuit-against-hair-salon-owner-who-didnt-pay-back-160000.html
Today I am reading a story called "Randy Moss filed lawsuit against hair salon owner who didn't pay back 160,000." The poblem between them to all started when Moss agreed to lend hair salon owner Kelvin Jones 160,000 to open  a fancy hair salon in Palm  Beach, Fla back in 2005.  Kelvin Jones was supposed to pay Randy Moss back in 96 monthly payments but never did it. During this time Randy Moss the wide receiver was playing for the Oakland Raiders. After that Randy Moss decided to sue him which I don't understand. Randy Moss should have just let this situation go before it even got to the suing part. Instead of him lending the money he should have just gave him the money. Why lend 160,000 when you can just give it to him. Randy Moss makes at least a couple of millions but wants 160,000 dollars back. That is like a dollar to him, why is crying about it. Also Kelvin Jones has to pay Moss back  the 160,000 in full plus the extra 62,000 in interest. To collect all that money to give to Randy Moss, he must save at least for a year and all the money he makes has to go directly to him. I believe this is a situation that could been resolved in the beginning.

For Women under 30, most births occur outside of marriage

The article I read today was called " For women under 30, most births occur outside of marriage." This article was published by two people with the names of Jason Deparle and Sabrina Tavernise. This story is about the increases of births from women under the ages of 30 being born outside of a marriage and how marriages is starting to become uncommon. For example a lady that is twenty-seven is on an on and off relationship where her boyfriend doesn't thinks about marriage at all but the girlfriend does. With saying so, them having differences  may lead to a altercation which will lead to a breakup, leaving the kid with either or parent. People suggest that getting married is already a breakup because for most people, getting married brings new responsibilities to the table and most of the time either or parent can't adjust to the new situation or their just to lazy to take on a new part of life. Also not being married can affect the way the child acts. Children that are mostly born out of marriage tend to act up in school than become a drop out, or have behavior problems and face risks which turns them in the wrong direction like falling into poverty.. I agree but also don't agree because some of my family members was born outside of marriage and didn't succeed far as making it all the way through school. Most of them either ended up sellling drugs or went to jail but the others were brought up in the same lifestyle and are still in school or succeeded in life.  Me being brought up wasn't a hard time. I was raised with both parents and currently is now. Also they had me after they got married and hopefully I will follow the same thing they did. So I prefer the person to get married first then have a kid. If not get married after the son is born. The best thing you would want is for your child to have the best life and that's what my family did for me.

Photoshop or Not

Today the article I am writing about is called Photoshop or Not. This article talks about how people can be cut into different sizes using the computer. For example, if the person is fat and taking a picture for the cover, if she would like or not , she can be slimmer than her usual self or be slim like a model. The photographs of celebrities and models in fashion advertisements and magazines are croped and  polished down to it is that right body. Instead of using some cream or something to take away the pimple, Adobe's Photoshop software can take care of that instantly. Or it can be drastic, shedding 10 or 20 pounds, adding a few inches in height and erasing all wrinkles and blemishes, done using Adobe's Photoshop software, the photo retouchers magic wand. Fixing all these body human parts, you might end up up with Barbie. These pictures are of highly idealized  and digitally edited images in advertising and fashion magazines. What I think about this situation is that it is a good thing. If a person is fat and she is taking a picture for a cover, they can take the fat off that person and make them skinny and look better. I think people should show if they altered the photo because if they don't the photo will be fake. People will wonder how the celebrities got so thin in a quick period of time.

Teaching kids how to break up nicely

The story I read today is about a lady that is in the middle of the situation which is teaching kids how to break up nicely. I think that this article is going deep into the relationships of young kids. Many of the kids like to or forced to break up online. They may break up in different ways. But the most popular website they break up on is Facebook. The lady that's behind the info is named Danah Boyd. The article stated that the high school had a group meeting with high scholars.  In a contrast that causes her no end of mishievous delight, her laptop bears a sticker of snow white, hose outstretched arm gently cradled the apple logo What I think about this story With a number f influential scholarly papers under her name, she travels relentlessly, tweets under th handle Zephoria and has fans trailing her at TED conferences, at South by Southwest and elsewhere on the high tech speaking circuit. She is also a kind of rock star messenger fromthe online and offline world of teenagers. The young subjects of her research become her friends on Facebook and subscribe to her twitter feed.   There is no shortage of grown up distress over the dangers young people face online. Children today are reaching online largely to social canges that have been taken place off line.

Monday, April 9, 2012

Today I  have read an article on MediaTakeo\Out.com. According to Amber's former publicist Janero Marchand, he was FIRED by Amber - when he tried to WARN Kanye that Amber Rose was TAKING his money . . . and giving it to her OTHER  lover.My reaction to this situation was unexplainable. She was taking Kanye West money and giving it to supposedly "Wiz Khalifa." Even though he introduced Amber Rose to Kanye West, and had a friendly bond, he still shouldn't have said that.
I think that she didn't take his money because she is a popular model and have enough money to give to her boyfriend. He pushed hard to make sure that Amber was featured on MediaTakeOut.com.  When Amber found out, she sent the following direspectful email to Janero:I will make sure everyone I know will not work with u b*tch! How dear u be in the studio with kanye and talk MAD SH*T about me!!!! R u f*ckin crazy????I cried days for u Janero!!!!! I will make sure ur blacklisted b*tch! I trusted u and u backstabbed me u aint sh*t but a fake Phony ass b*tch ass f*ggot ass Snitch!!!! I trusted u and u back stabbed my worst then anyone ever!!!! Then u talk about trusting a stripper???? F*ck U janero! U gossip like a f*ggot.Stay the f*ck away from me b*tch and please don't bother to apologize cuz its a rap!