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Positive uses still exist

 "Privacy is no longer a social norm" according to Facebook boss, Mark Zuckerberg


As in the real life, there are always good and bad ones. But the anonymity offered by the Internet is stronger if it's possible. So, please take care of your privacy and your security. It's not bad use TIC's because they are our present but as with many things, every user has to be careful and responsible of each online info.

Anyway, Internet brings us many good things not to miss. Also this post is here to offer you some of the most famous milestones and try to explain what they really are.

To start, we can mentioned the Peer-to-peer system (P2P) for sharing files among users without the need of a central server. This phenomenon changed the way the world was known until then. And also, the way in that Linux (free software) or Mozilla Firefox, among others, work. They do it with the help of every user to implement details of some systems, what is called "free software" and "open source", even it's argued they are different between them.


Along with these concepts, emerged another called copyleft, the opposite of copyright, that is the movement by which stipulates the designation of "free of author rights" rather than "all rights reserved". The most colloquial way to call those artistic and scientific works free of rights which was born in the '70. One example is: Wikimedia Commons. 
 
This results in licenses "Creative Commons", which means "some rights reserved" and allows authors choose their own kind of rights on their works. This is a true diffusion model created by the homonymous NGO in California and, these kind of licenses called "share-alike".


In order to continue talking about artistic works, we should mentioned the phenomenon: crowdfunding. Crowdfunding is just a kind of financing method that involves funding to project with relatively modest contributions from a large group of individuals, because the entrepreneur's project via Internet platforms has campaigned to publicize its "future" work (if finally it's well funded). Here you have a video about how this works. It is closely linked to the concept of crowdsourcing by which the community (even before the digital age) bound to develop an idea.
 


Finally, it's worth mentioned to the most popular social networks exist nowadays. As Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. Though these are no mystery for the reader, they are as an open window to the world to connect people.

To end with this post and if you want to watch a new kind of audiovisual curriculum, check the examples on the page "positives uses still exist" on this blog and you could see a new method to introduce yourself to apply for a job.


How safe users are in Internet?


Photo of FB with elements collected from a research reportage of Antena 3 channel

For a while, the computer age has given us tools that could have considered unimaginable to humans. And now, we live in the global village that McLuhan defined already in the 60s as a daily reality, its effects are evident for those who circulate through cyberspace.

It is true that the digital age opens a new window for remote human relationships, supported from the comfort that it gives from an electronic device. This means that we have a certain identity in a social network as Facebook and memory, that of us and our around create, stays forever on-line so that you can always access it.

YouTube video in which the guy expresses his opinion about the memory of Facebook

The discussion, that this post proposes, part of the idea of security in the private life and the concept of privicy of every individual people. How safe are the users in spaces and social networks? How we defend ourselves as individuals and how we make to cover our data in a private setting?

In 2012, the group called Febelin has done a sociological study to measure the strength and memory that Facebook dominates over us, and which use is derived from it. On its website, they report on how to get stronger those fences so that users are not so exposed in the globalized world that the Internet and social networks represent.

YouTube video with the experiment about Facebook by Febelin

In the next several posts, it will present some of the most famous cases of the bad use the Internet has given the users to damage the image of anothers. In this first post, it is just trying to make the reader think about the question asked: security of privacy of users. Feel free to post your comment.