Why I Use Facebook vs Why I Use Periscope

Facebook and Periscope are both social media sites. However, that is where the similarities end. Facebook is more about connecting with people you know. It is about messaging friends, posting thoughts, and sharing family photos. We can see what our childhood friends are up to, or if our crush is single or not. Periscope, on the other hand is about connecting with complete strangers. One person records themselves doing whatever it is they want to do. People from around the world can choose to click on the video and leave comments that last 3 seconds long, or they can press the screen to leave hearts.

I recently got into this site called Periscope. I only signed up for an account with Periscope to see one video. However, once on there I actually found the site very entertaining, and if the right people are on, very addicting. I wasn’t able to fall asleep one night and watched a few of the people’s Periscope ideas out of curiosity. The first video I clicked on was a man from England taking his dog for a morning walk. People that saw the video also got to see the sunrise live as he saw it. I found it to be super interesting, not only to see how another person stared their day but it was also, lovely to see some landmarks and parts of England live. The second video I clicked on was a guy drawing silly pictures. If we commented our names he would draw a face that he though went with the face. The commentary he gave while drawing and the music he had playing in the background made it a very entertaining and a funny stream to watch. The third video was of a lady from Brussels. She was Pericoping live from the airport that was attacked. She showed the viewers as she and a group of people rushed out of the airport. Of course we didn’t see the actual attack as it happened live, but viewers of this lady’s periscope that day saw part of history happing live.

There are all types of Periscopes, people pulling pranks, people telling jokes, seminars, people’s daily lives, and events they are attending. This is a very different form Facebook in the way that you are connecting with strangers. I think it is curios how others live their lives or what is happing somewhere else that makes this sight interesting. On this sight there was also a lot of people doing Q’ & A’s. One man titled his Periscope “what it is like to be black in Japan”, and another titled his “Ask me questions, I’m Muslim and live in Palestine”. I watched both for a while and they were very interesting, and through this site you can ask the type of questions you always wanted to know.

Facebook on the other hand, is completely different. I use this site to see what my friends who moved far away are doing. I have friends Las Vegas, Hawaii, and Malaysia, so I find Facebook most useful when trying to connect with them. I also share funny pictures and videos with my family and friends through Facebook all the time, it really catches my attention. I find Facebook very addicting, and although I don’t use it as much as I used to I still love logging on to see what everyone is sharing. I find that Facebook used to be more about sharing your thoughts. Now it's slowly moving throwers sharing other people’s photos or memes. However, what keeps me coming back is the hope that I see some exciting news from one of my friend’s posts. Like last week my friend posted that the baby she was having was a girl through Facebook and it was so sweet to see all of the love she received through the comment section.

The Social Network Assignment Collaboration.

By Delyla Alvarado, Briana Escajeda, Jocelyn Pallares, and Victoria Gonzalez.

Zuckerberg’s role in relation to his Harvard peers, especially cultural differences between the he and Eduardo Severin, Sean Parker, and the Winkelvosses.

Mark Zuckerberg is the founder and CEO of Facebook. Mark created Facebook who also shared his idea with Eduardo Severin. Eduardo is Mark's best friend, as well business partners. Zuckerberg and Eduardo were nerds and hardly went out as much. They really didn't have anything in common, Mark Zuckerberg was the jerk of the film he didn’t care what he had to do to get what he needed. Eduardo in the other hand was more of the ethical type he cared about himself but also about his friend Mark. He had morals. Mark was very intelligent and had ideas left and right popping into his head, while Eduardo had the money. Eduardo no longer works with Facebook and ends up suing Mark Zuckerberg. Another person who plays an important role to Facebook is Sean Parker, who eventually becomes the company’s founding president. Sean has a big ego and Mark likes the confidence he has and basically he falls for his input. On the other hand, Eduardo didn't like or trust that guy he questions his motives of joining the Facebook establishment. Not many communication goes on between Eduardo and Sean. In the film we see he had big parting ways which contributing to him leaving the Facebook company for being arrested on drug charges which have never been proven to be true but he left. The Winkelovess brothers were the initial ones who thought of the social networking site Connectu. They came to Mark Zuckerberg to help create the site Connectu, which Mark initially stole the idea and created his own very successful social media site. The Winkelovess had no communication with Mark, resulting for the twins to despise him. They later on settled on 65 million dollars. Facebook has a lot of history and who knew Mark would get into so much trouble by creating someone else’s initial idea.  Even with different backgrounds they have a successful social site.  Opposites attracted and get along. The site now has more than twelve years of being successful with no crashes or bugs and has maintain to protect the person's page and significant privacy settings.

Venture Capitalists and their role in the creation of Facebook?

Venture capitalist are investors or people who provide capital to start ventures. They normally support small companies they believe will be successful such as Marks company or for instance ConnectU to get a profit when they finally go viral. Eduardo is a huge part in the creation of Facebook by simply just handing the money over to Mark to help get started and move the company over to California. Facebook has been successful since February 4, 2004, twelve years now. Mark Zuckerberg is making money even if Facebook is at its best or its worst. He has made millions in venture capital that people give his company to gain success. Eduardo’s money helped the company stay afloat for a long time because it was able to hire new coders, new equipment so that the site would never crash. It was highly important to Zuckerberg that Facebook never crashed because he wanted a quality site, he claimed it was what differentiated their site from others. Eduardo went to New York to find investors for Facebook because the company was getting very big in a short amount of time. Eduardo was not able to financially support the company all by himself, so this is why he had to go do some networking. The company caught its huge break when Peter Thiel made an angel investment of half a million dollars. An angel investor is not usually part of the company but provides financial backing for a small business. So Eduardo was not an angel investor because he was a part of the company. Peter Thiel’s angel investment helped launch the company even further. Thiel set Facebook up with and office and helped get the company get reincorporated. However, once Eduardo signed papers leaving him with little to no ownership of the company the company lost its first and most important venture capitalist. This also hurt the company because now not only was the Winklevosses suing Zuckerberg for millions, but now so was Eduardo. This took a huge toll on the company, the Winklevosses were received a settlement of 65 million dollars. It is not known how much Eduardo received in the settlement but the friendship between himself and Zuckerberg was never the same again. Nevertheless, the rewards seem to outweigh the costs because now Facebook is now occupying billions of active users every day, and is worth 100 billion dollars according to Tim Worstall (2015). 

Gender relationships, particularly the way the main characters interact with women and what role that had in the creation of Facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg undermines women from the beginning. In the film they depict Mark as having a hard time after his breakup. Not knowing how to deal with his emotions he got drunk and went to the internet. Blogging and then creating a site that compares local university girls with each other. Zuckerberg exposes many secrets of his ex-girlfriend, whether they were true or not. Even to the extent of calling her inappropriate names on the internet, which immediately gets many people’s attention. This was unfortunate for his ex-girlfriend, since he sabotages her life within a matter of minutes, but this was very fortunate for Zuckerberg since that gave him the motivation to make Facebook big hit. He did this so he could feel someone, someone girls would want to be with, Zuckerberg wanted to be the big shot and create the next big thing. The fact that a simple post attracted an audience Zuckerberg knew this was a great idea. By posting a comparison picture and asking for others to choose a picture got 22,000 hits in two hours. By exposing woman in the way that he did, embarrassing them and his girlfriend, he was able to capture attention and momentum for his next big project, being Facebook. Each time that Mark and Eduardo had an encounter with women, or the subject of women came up, a new concept was added to improve Facebook. Such as the idea of identifying whether someone relationship status as single, married, or in a relationship. Mark knew this would be a great deal to incorporate into Facebook to attract members of both sexes. This was part of the, “college” experience that Zuckerberg was trying to implement on Facebook.

Every time Mark and Eduardo had an encounter with women it gave him new ideas. Zuckerberg stated that, “The website would never be finished, just like fashion. There are always innovative ways to enhance the site”. Adding pictures, profiles, and messages is what the site needed to attract people without it feeling like a dating site, but instead a “cool place to hangout online”. Initially “The Facebook” was just for college student’s. Then of course because of the amount of users made up of only college students, led to the expansion of making it a public social network. Being a jerk to his ex-girlfriend online, while intoxicated, had a major role in the creation of Facebook.

Zuckerberg's attitude towards exclusivity of networks (Open or Closed).

Mark Zuckerberg was a natural when it came to creating websites, people found the sites he made entertaining and addicting to be on. The Winklevosses brothers took notice at his talent and realized that their website idea needed a mind like Zuckerberg’s to make “The Facebook” a big hit. When the Winklevosses presented the idea to the idea to Mark the explained the website as being exclusive to Harvard students. The Winklevosses revolved their idea around females, they believed girls would want to talk to men of prestige and that is what would bring people to the site. Zuckerberg loved the idea of exclusivity, and that is why he jumped on the opportunity to work on “The Facebook”. However, Zuckerberg took this idea to another level. Mark liked the idea that you had to know the other person to send a friend request, he wanted quality. This is what separated Facebook from Myspace or Friendster. Facebook was supposed to be more than a yearbook. Facebook let friends know if their friends were single, what they were doing for spring break, and what they were thinking. It was the next big hit. The smartest move Zuckerberg made was slowly expanding to schools so that they could use Facebook as well. Then eventually everyone was able to use it. Facebook was no longer exclusive to Ivy League schools, but the concept Zuckerberg had in mind would be. The Winklevosses had the idea to make a site exclusive to Harvard students, which led to the controversy because Mark Zuckerberg did use this idea, however he expanded on it. In fact, Zuckerberg expanded all over the world and now we see users as far as India, Malaysia, and Nigeria. So although the exclusivity is not what it used to be, the concept of adding your friends, and putting up your own information for them to see is still very present. As Zuckerberg said in the movie “People want to go on the internet and check out their friends so why not build a website that offers that. Friends, profiles, pictures, why not offer that? Whatever you can visit, browse around, maybe it was just somebody you met at a party.” This is the exclusivity Mark wanted, he wanted to put the experience of college and making it a social network. Whether it be for networking, friendships, work, school, or romantic purposes. You would be able to deny or request whoever you wanted on your own account. Mark described this exclusivity as being a final club, and the user is the “President”.

References

Fincher, D. (Director). (2010). The social network [Motion picture on laser disc]. United States: Sony.

Worstall, T. (2015, January 23). Is Facebook Worth $8 Billon, $100, or $800 Billion to the US Economy? [Editorial]. Forbes.com. Retrieved from   Retrieved from                                         http//www.forbes.com/sites/ timworstall/2015/1/23/is-facebook-worth-8-b illion-100-billion -or- 800-billion-to-the-us-economy/#6f145c4f2d75

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The broke spring break!

A funny picture I came across though Facebook

This spring break I didn't travel anywhere, so I sat back and watched the pictures of my friends that travel flood in through Facebook. However, I can’t complain too much this year because the reason I couldn’t travel is because I recently bought a brand new car. Honestly, I am glad I bought the car because my previous car was always breaking down. I was never able to hang out with friends because I was scared I would get stuck on the freeway. Luckily the week before spring break I bought the new car. Unfortunately, the week of spring break I got sick. Needless to say, this wasn’t exactly the best spring break I’ve ever had. For the majority of my spring break I laid in bed feeling ill. If I felt a little better, I colored inside of my adult coloring book. I know that sounds pathetic but then again I was sick and I did not have money this spring break, so I had to deal with it.

If anything I would say the highlight of my spring break definitely has to be attending my friend’s wedding. The wedding happened the day spring break started and before I got sick. I met the couple while on a mission trip and we all became great friends after that. And this was the year they got married. I was very excited for them and even though it wasn’t my wedding I counted down the days because I was so excited! When the wedding finally came which was during spring break, I was eager to dance and have a great time. The wedding ended up being one of the best weddings I had ever been to. I laughed, I cried, and I danced more than I have ever danced before. I knew I would because the rest of the group from the mission trip was also invited.

A fun picture from the wedding

Life is funny that way. Before the mission trip I feel like I had little to no friends. After the trip I came back with 20 solid friendships. I am so grateful to have these amazing people in my life. Sometimes people come into your life that are more encouraging and supportive than family is. That is what these people have become to me, my second family. I knew that the wedding would be a blast with them there because they make everything a blast! We danced to 80’s music until they kicked us out. We took more pictures than all of the professional photographers there, we ate to our hearts content. And most importantly we were able to be a part of our two friends very special day. They were so in love, watching them say their vows to each other was beyond beautiful. Although I was sick and I didn’t get to travel to LA or anywhere else for that matter, I was able to buy a new car, and more importantly I was able to spend time with some of the best people on Earth.

My awesome friends on my last day of spring break

Growing up with three brothers

4  year old picture of my brothers and

 

 Being the oldest sibling to three brothers I can be considered the “bossy one”. Everyone has a different experience with their siblings. I can honestly say so far, I have had a great experience with my brothers.  Even though sometimes I feel like they are extra mean to me specifically. I am glad I have the brothers that I have. They are the best people I know and I am glad I am stuck with them.

 

Being the only girl also affects how we interact. Most of the time they are wrestling, being like a second mom to them I find myself yelling at them to cut it out. I would like to say I tell them to stop because I’m concerned for their safety. In reality I nag them because I am trying to watch Greys Anatomy and they are too loud. With boys you also fart jokes, video games, and food wars. With my brothers in particular we are big video game nerds. We grew up on Pokémon and Mario Kars. My brothers weren’t into sports like other guys are. So when the other cousins were outside playing football, we were inside playing Super Smash brothers and other fun video games! Being the geeks we were when we were younger we weren’t the most popular kids around. However, when we got older people started to actually like all of the nerdy things that my brothers and I enjoyed growing up. So I really enjoyed that we were able to experience that together. Playing video games with my brothers is also my favorite part of everyday! We have such good clean fun and rarely fight believe it or not. Aside our trash talk that we do to throw the others off from a racing game, we are pretty harmless siblings!

An even older picture of us playing the Nintendo 64! 

 

When you have three boys in the house it is important to be able to keep up and toughen up! If I want food I have to get some before they come along. I jokingly call us all savages when food is around because we fight over every bite. We also only have one restroom so after getting home it is a run to the restroom. Being the only girl I always get to be the one to use it first, score! Another way that I have had to adapt to my brothers is my having to adapt to their sense of humor. Yes, this means fart jokes. Now I find myself being a 23-year-old female who still laughs at fart jokes because it is all I have ever known. This is also why I have more of a man’s type of sense of humor.

These are all aspects of how my brothers have molded the person I am. How I have impacted their lives, or shaped who they are today. Even though I am just the older sister and not their mother, when I am in charge I tend to be extremely strict. I don’t let them watch whatever they want on television, and I make sure they do their chores. I am an education and History Major so I am always telling my brothers about our countries past. I go on about our educational system and about other cultures. I really like to believe that I teach my brothers a few things to some extent. I want them to grow up to be good people, good educated people. What are they like now? I think they are the best siblings any girl could ever ask for.

 

                                                          A funny video of my brothers and I.

Music: Song: You Always Make Me Smile by Kyle Andrews

 

Will I be spanking my future children?





 

 I grew up in an old school Mexican family. My parents were also very strict Christians, because of this my siblings and I were spanked as children; however, we didn’t get spanked very much. I think I was spanked the least. I’d like to believe that this was because I was the best behaved, but it was probably because I was the only girl. Still, growing up spanking was culturally a normal thing to me. However, last week while at the DMV a mother who spanked her child changed the way I looked at the issue of spankings. Actually, it got me to think of the issue. I had never given it much thought. I don’t have children yet and I’m not married, but as I get older I find myself evaluating what morals and what stances I believe in. So when I saw this mother at the DMV pick up her child and take him to the restroom to spank him it really got me thinking.

Here is what happened. The DMV was packed and taking a long time to get to each costumer. A 3-year-old boy was standing on the chair yelling at the top of his lungs trying to get his parents attention. It was a small room so everyone’s ears were ringing. The parents were sitting next to each other, they looked annoyed but they didn’t do anything. It seems to me that they were more annoyed at the fact that the DMV was taking so long. Eventually the mom was embarrassed because people were starting to star at the screaming child. She told him to sit down and be quiet. The little boy was quiet for about 2 minutes then he was at it again. This repeated a few more times. Then finally the mother picked up the child and carried him to the restroom. I knew what that meant. It was a very small DMV so everyone outside the restroom could hear what was happing in the restroom, it was very awkward hearing the spanks and the child cry.

So what’s my stance on spanking? I think the mother handled the situation in the wrong way. I am not a mother so some may say that I don’t have the right to make that call. Honestly I might not, but I am allowed an opinion. I am studying education and worked with children since I was 14. That is my only credibility, but I am still entitled to my opinion and I believe she handled that situation poorly. First off, the whole problem might have been solved if she would have just talked or played with her son while waiting. She was literally just sitting there; I really don’t think playing patty cake or Simon says was going to kill her. Secondly, the husband did no parenting. He didn’t acknowledge that any of it was happening. I believe that strong male role models are important in a child’s life and development. It saddened me that this father showed no interest. Lastly and more importantly, I don’t like that the mother did it at the DMV. It felt like she just spanked her child out of frustration. It didn’t seem like child abuse, honestly it just felt like she was being lazy with her parenting. I don’t believe you should ever spank your child out of anger, or in public. If spanking has to occur, I believe it should be in the privacy of your own home. I know I sound like I am bashing these parents really hard but I was just analyzing the situation, while figuring out what I believe is the right thing to do.

So will I be spanking my  future children? I think so. I know I sound like I am contradicting myself, but I really think it is okay to spank your child if you do it for the right reasons and in the right way. Of course I would need to talk to the father of the child and agree on how to discipline the child because ever going through with a punishment. I think spouses should talk and figure out their disciplinary plan in a calm fashion. When people act out when they are frustrated or angry they don’t always make the best decisions, so it's best to stay calm. I believe if a child can be talked to and reasoned with you should try that approach first. If that doesn’t work than that’s when I think a spanking is okay. If they aren’t able to reason than a negative consequence or a negative action might help children realize that they shouldn’t be acting out in that way. I understand this is a controversial issue, and that I am not qualified to give professional advice on the matter. However, I thought I would throw my two cents in because I would like to look back at this when I have children and see if I still believe the same thing or if I changed my mind.