Racism in Social Media

 

Model Jessica Leandra dos Santos posted a racist tweet. 

Social networks are there for people to share whats on their minds, to share ideas and important information Though that is the case there are issues that people should first think about before they post. Racism is one of the major issues that social networks are facing all over the world. People tend to post racist posts on social networks which is a major issue in the new South Africa and the rest of the world. There is a number of racist posts that people have posted on almost all social networking sites. Majority of these posts are racial hatred posts

One of the racist posts that made people talking was of a 20 year old model Jessica Leandra dos Santos who posted on her twitter, her tweet read: "Just well took on an arrogant and disrespectful k***** inside spar. Should have punched him, should have." When this young model made an apology about this issue she said that she was very angry at this guy who was throwing sexual harrasing comments to her. Another racist post was of a Cape Town student who posted a status on Facebook, he said had heard enough of blacks and that whites do not own them anything, he also referred to black people as F***ing   brain dead monkeys.



Racism in Social Media

 Though everyone knows that they can write about anything that they want on their social networks, the reason for these sites are to help people get connected and share ideas and information. Some people tend to post statuses before they even consider what other people will think. I will advise people to think before they post anything.

Google buys a Travel Guide Book to step ahead Apple's Siri?

Google buys Frommers to step ahead Siri
 (http://www.google.co.za/imgres)

Frommer's is a Travel Guide book that is best selling in America. Now Google has decided to purchase this Guide book from current owner Wiley & Sons to be part of the Frommer's to help people find their travel guides of destination any were around the world. It is quite clear that Google wants to take over the online travel. It has shown that it is capable of answering any questions that people want to know, no matter what the question is.

Google has done something like this last year with Zagat's restuarant guides, publisher of worldwide restuarant guides. It has decided to be part of this Travel Guide in order to help people in finding answers about their trravel places.It is quite clear that Google is rolling up professional guides to local places and businesses. As search becomes a more futuristic convenience, (http://www.newscandy.com/e/KnD4).  It is also believed that Google decided to buy Frommer's Travel Guide Book in order to step ahead of Apples Siri. "Siri is the intelligent personal assistant that helps you get things done just by asking. It allows you to use your voice to send messages, schedule meetings, place phone calls, and more." (http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/siri-faq.html.). It is also responsible for making recommendations for which restuarants to book and road directions. Although Google is more popular compared to Siri, it is quite clear that Siri and Google are in a very big competition because they are similar to each other.

Google one of the most popular searc engines
 (http://www.google.co.za/imgres)

As we all know that Google is responsible of answering all the questions that we want to know, Here are some of the questions why people will think Google purchased this book for: Is it to:

• To help travellers when they want to find a place to go?
• Get an opportunity to integrate other services in the Frommers pages?
• Wants to increase it's searching options?
• Does not want competition?
• To step ahead Siri
• Wants to stay being the best search engine?
• To take over online Travel and Restuarants?
• To gain more advertisers?

No matter what the reason is, Google did this for a good course. What we do not know is whether it will really step ahead  Apples Siri ?

Facebook pays $1 billion in cash for Instagram







  Facebook buy Instagram for $1 billion
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Instagram is one of the social media programs most people would refer to it as "cool" . It as a photo-sharing site that uses a cellphone camera to take pics for either your Facebook or Twitter.

This program is popular in a way that Facebook together with Twitter and google were all interested in this program. It is said that Facebook payed $1 billion to Instagram's Chief Executive and co-founder (Mike Kreiger) to purchase this two-year-old -program on 9 April 2012.

Mark Zukerberg the founder of Facebook said that "Facebook was committed to building and growing instagram independently". He believes that this program will be of a good course for facebook, the reason for this is because most people uses Facebook to share photos. Thus instagram will be a much more interesting way of photo-sharing amongst people.

"Other sources suspects that Mark Zuckerberg has a fear of Facebook losing it's place, youngsters will get their social networking fix from other services". Kashmir Hill lists 8 Reasons Why Facebook Bought Instagram: (http://www.forbes.com)

1. Because it could.
2. Because it didn’t want a competitor to snap it up first.
3. Because Facebook’s mobile app sucks. Instagram’s doesn’t.
4. Because most people are on Facebook to look at other people’s photos, and Facebook wants to keep it that way.
5. More data.
6. Because it wanted to buy soul.
7. Because it’s cheaper than inventing a time machine.
8. Because it wanted to buy soul.

Instagrams foundersMike Krieger and Kevin Sytrom
(http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/09/facebook-to-acquire-instagram-for-1-billion/)

 "It’s important to be clear that Instagram is not going away. We’ll be working with Facebook to evolve Instagram and build the network. We’ll continue to add new features to the product and find new ways to create a better mobile photos experience". Mike Kreiger wrote on his blog post. This means Facebook was willing to pay such a huge amount of money for a program that is independently owned. A photo-sharing program that has been around for two years that will not belong to them. As we can see it might be possible that Facebook wanted to increase its followers, that people will be more interested on Facebook than ever before. 



Duplicated Facebook Accounts



Facebook founder: Mark Zuckerberg



Over millions of people have Facebook accounts and there is still a huge growth; this really proves the popularity of this social network. Facebook members grew to 955 million at the end of the second quarter, but some 8.7 percent(83 million) may be dodgy, the company said in its quarterly filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Obviously people may be wondering what the reasons for these fake facebook accounts may be.  The Facebook company said "there may be people who maintain more than one Facebook account, a violation of its terms of service. Parents also sign up for their children.It estimates that duplicate accounts represent about 4.8% of its 955 million monthly active users as of June 30, which amounts to about 45.84 million accounts."
The company also says it bans at least 20,000 accounts daily and estimates about 600,000 accounts per day are compromised.

These fake accounts can cause a number of following  problems:

• Facebook users will be in danger
• Revenuesfrom advertisers could ba harmed.
• Facebook would lose accounts from people.

By solving this isssue Facebook company decided to remove the number of all the fake accounts. This means Facebook has los it's members due to these duplicated accounts. There more duplicated accounts they find, the more Facebook is going to lose people. Will this make Facebook not to be the most used social network in the world?