Facebook Video Ban

Facebook playing with fire by policing beheading videos

Pepitone,Julianne. “Facebook playing with fire by policing beheading videos” Cable News Network. 23 Oct 2013. Web. 25 Oct 2013. <http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/23/technology/social/facebook-beheading-videos/index.html>

The topic of my article was about the showings of a beheading in a Facebook video. Facebook took down this video and stopped users from posting it and viewing it on their site. They took the bann off last May and hoped that the video did not resurface, sure enough it did. They realize the website is for telling people about things and keeping up to date on everything, they just wish that they would warn the viewers before they viewed the graphic content.

So what this is saying is they want it to either be taking down or before the content is viewed, warn the younger audience. This is trying to cut down the amount of graphic things that these children are seeing while they spend time on the Internet. THis is a good idea for the younger persons that spend a lot of time on it.

I think that this is a good idea, but they should not just ban it all together. It should be made to only allow the age they want to view it. This would make it were the younger people are not seeing it and the adults that need to know can see what they need to see.This will affect me, as a younger person, but is more likely a good idea because I may not need to see the things that some people put on the internet.

This impacts the world because some people are not going to be seeing something they may need to be seeing. And some things getting around as fast as they should and some things that do not need to be getting around, like pointless videos. The things that need to be see around the world may not be getting there as fast as they should and it needs to be made to where they can.

This week

Hello and welcome back to my Blog. These past few weeks we learned about many new things, mostly talked about Online Safety. We went over the rules on how to stay safe online and what it went to be safe online. Some of the things we talked about while going over this topic were,

1. Online Predator-  A commonly used term for someone who uses the Internet to develop inappropriate relationships with kids or teens.

2. Risky- Potentially harmful to one’s emotional or physical well-being

3. Manipulate- Trying to influence someone to do something they might otherwise do, for one’s own benefit.

4. Stereotype-  A popular belief about a group of people, based on assumptions that are often false.

These helped us determine what was safe to put online and what wasn’t. We’ve also used a program called Animoto. It allowed us to show how much we had learned from our teacher. These video like shows, well they are like small thirty seconds long music videos. It was very easy to use and understand. We used this to make two videos to describe what it meant to be safe on the Internet and while talking to people on it.This is one of mine.

 
This will help me throughout life, because our lives now run around the Internet in most places around the world.

And in conclusion I think that my week has been very worth it because of all the things we learned that would keep me safe.