Are Your Facebook Friends Really Who They Say They Are?

In an effort to save their privacy, many Facebook users are starting a trend of using fake names and identity's to log on to the social networking website. However, Facebook is very unhappy with this. They are fully aware that people are sneaking on with fake accounts due to many job applicants being rejected by employers, because of their profile content. Facebook deems the trend as inappropriate since the website's main purpose to network 'real people' with 'real connections'. Therefore, they are not being hesitant towards deleting pages that seem less than real. Imagine this problem became out of hand to the point where networking sites were losing, because uninterested advertisers found it useless to buy private information that may be fake and inaccurate? The future of social networking sites may require a genuine fingerprint to sign-up.

Do you think it is fair that Facebook site maintainers think they can determine whether or not a person's identity is real, fake, or a real identity with a nickname?

How do you believe Facebook could eventually suffer from this fake identity trend?

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Chatted with a stranger.

While waiting at Starbucks for my vanilla latte to be made, I started talking to a stranger about the new iPad that was released. She perceived the new technology as a "piece of overpriced and overrated junk" and was talking to me about how Apple intended the iPad to do much better in sales than what it has so far. I completely agreed with her and said I was not surprised whatsoever that the odd-looking gadget turned out to be a square ^_^

My experience on Second Life.

My first impression of Second Life was a rather difficult one, although I was still impressed. Foremost, I struggled through the log-in process because I falsely identified my fake last name being spelled with an uppercase ‘I’ and not a lowercase ‘l’. After successfully determining my mistake, I logged in and watched my avatar get taken to a virtual community center. Almost immediately, I was greeted by numerous people (as if I had previously chatted with them before). I said hello back to them, then began my mission to find the Penn State Campus. I searched for it’s name through the map-feature and found it easily. However, after transferring myself there I found it difficult to control my avatar into walking towards my desired direction. Not because it was difficult to understand, but because I was not used to this kind of advancement in online-activities. So I virtually stood there for two minutes, clueless and aimlessly jumping up and down. After I was greeted by ‘ProfessorMaryBock’, I eventually figured out how to fly towards where I wanted to go.

Although Second Life takes getting used to for newbies like me, I can understand why people like it use it on a daily basis. It makes meeting new people with similar interests seem effortless and is graphically equivalent to modern day video games. The communication factor is primarily what makes Second Life somewhat addicting; it gives people the ability to be anonymous and multiphrenic or to simply be themselves, without having to endure realistic criticisms and judgments from others.

Explanation Of My Photo

My Blogger photo was taken at a concert I went to over the summer with my sister. It was one of the greatest moments I've experienced yet and the photo is reminiscent of that day =)

House CAO probes hacker attack

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/32145.html

After President Obama gave the State of the Union address, 49 congressional websites were hacked by a group called the 'Red Eye Crew' in Brazil. They used explicit words towards President Obama and succeeded a hacking into the GovTrends firewall system, for the second time since August. Because of this, security against web intruders is being strengthened and House officers are considering blocking GovTrends from outside technology vendors. However, if a group of immature but net-savvy kids in Brazil had the ability to hack into our Government's system that was once considered 'secure', could terrorists have just as much opportunity?

Get blogging, Pope tells priests

It's pretty savvy that Pope Benedict XVI is affiliating himself with CMC to spread Christianity. However, since advanced technology like the iPhone has introduced apps for absolutely everything, has CMC swept our generation so badly that come Sunday morning, all one has to do is log in from their bed? This could be an optimistic opportunity for people who are injured, handicapped, or have a hard-time physically getting around. But unfortunately, reading religious services through text is no comparison to the feeling of physically attending church. It's possible that CMC delivery of priestly messages may result in a decrease of church-goers. Traditionally, church has been a community-driven event that is not only meant to spread religious teachings, but to also bring people together.

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