Facebook is Using You

The main point of this article is to further our knowledge about social networks and search engines using our personal information to figure  out our like and intrests and later use it against us in the future. Before reading this article i was always concerned about the things i put on twitter and facebook, because im one of those paranoid teenagers that believe that the world is out to stalk me. After reading this article it just makes me even more aware of my postings and that im not the only one that is causes of the internet .

Chris Brown & Rihanna Reunited ?

Rihanna and Chris Brown Reunited . Two songs dropped early last week with a collaboration . Chris Browns "Turn Up The Music" and Rihannas "Birthday Cake Remix". The two also got cozy at the grammys, and also tweet each other from time to time. Yesterday ( Feb. 20th ) was Rihanna's birthday and Chris Brown tweeted Rihanna repeatedly happy birthday . 


- I personally think rihanna and Chris is too cute. yea he messed up big time and abused a female, ( rihanna ) but people make mistakes and deserve a second chance . They sub tweet about each other ALL THE TIME and only true fans would realize. I just think that since the incident they still had love in their hearts for each other and always will. i also believed that they never " stopped talking". They subtweet about each other and only lord knows if they text, email, and visit each other. 


They'll get back together , I'M SURE OF IT .

Photoshop Or Not?

The article titled " Photoshop or Not? A Tool to Tell " from the New York Times is about how 2 computer scientists ( Dr. Farid and Eric Kee ) are researching how much photos have been changed photoshop wise. Many photos that are in magazines or on billboards has been changed to make the person seem prettier or more handsome. 


what photoshop does is that it could take a pimple or a blemish off of a persons face and makes their skin look flawless; it could also make a heavy set person look skinny or a skinny person look more full figured. 


based on the information from the article Dr. Farid and Eric Kee are proposing a software tool for measuring how much fashion and beauty photos have been alterd, a 1-to-5 scale that distinguishes the very little from the fantastic. 


Question #1 : Do you think super-skinny, overly perfect images of women in magazines, the internet, and TV encourage eating disorders and low self-esteem in the people who see those images?


- Yes , because many people think that the celebrities they see in magazines and on tv is what they look like foreal but its really not. These celebrities put the thought into peoples head that their suppose to be THAT skinny. 


Question #2 : Do you think altered images should be labeled so that those who look at magazines can know how much the images has been changed ?
- Yes, this would make the readers feel better about how they look. I really dont see why people change their appearence jst for a magazine/photo shoot.

Cracking Teenagers' Online Codes

The article Mr. Petro gave us from the New York Times is about Dr. Boyd researching whether the Internet is helpful to teenagers or danger to them.

I personally think that the even though there are perverts and predators online lurking us responsible teenagers should be able to work online and not having our parents looking over our shoulder every 2 minutes to see who am i talking to and what i am looking up on google.

" The most deadly misconception about American youth has been the sexual predator panic,"