Dangers of Facebook

1. According to a 2008 Kaplan study, one in 10 college admissions officers routinely check out college applicants’ Facebook and MySpace pages. And some 38% of them found posts and pictures that reflected poorly on those prospective students. It wasn’t even necessarily that they’d posted provocative or hard partying photos. In some cases, students had simply written disparagingly about the campuses they toured.

2. Facebook claims it has 400 million users. But are not well-protected from prying eyes, scammers and unwanted marketers according to Joan Goodchild, senior editor of CSO (Chief Security Officer) online.

3. Some Facebook users found their private chats accessible to everyone on their contact list - a major security breach that's left a lot of people wondering just how secure the site is.

4. Security holes are being found on a regular basis. It is not as inherently secure as people think it is when they log on every day

Cyber Wellness Tips

1.  Although Singaporean teens spend an average of 17.2 hours on the Internet each week, most of them don't know much about cyber-wellness, defined as being responsible, respectful and rational, as well as being alert to scams and how to protect themselves.

2.   it refers to positive well-being of Internet users and a healthy cyber culture for the internet community.
 3.   it involves an understanding of the risks of harmful online behaviour, an awareness of how to product oneself and others from such behaviour.

4.  it is a recognition of the power of internet to affect oneself and the community-at-large

interesting facts of Facebook

1. There are over 250 million registered users on Facebook of which 125 million login for atleast once almost daily. And on an average each of these 125 million users spend atleast 4 minutes on Facebook everyday (per user).

2.  Facebook one of the busiest websites in the world.

3.  Over 1 billion photos and 10 million videos are uploaded to Facebook each month. Images alone consume hard disk storage space as much as 25TB of storage space every week. This entire thing became so humongous that Facebook redesign their image storage system.

4.  More than 15 million pieces of varied content such as web links, news stories and blog posts are shared everyday.

 

case study (local/overseas)

The focus of The Internet, Social Intelligence & Labor is the impact of the Internet on human resources and the balance of power between labor and management. The Internet has contributed to the organization and mobilization of workers facing multinational corporations; it has permitted instantaneous contact across borders; it also facilitates communication among managers and permits the coordination of dispersed workplaces. Managers may more easily control an international network of production sites on-line. The Internet provides opportunities for managers and workers to pursue their overlapping and conflicting goals.

inspirational use of Facebook

1.  Although the World Wide Web is often referred to as the Internet, the two are not the same thing. The Internet is a huge network of networks that links computers together all over the world using a range of wires and wireless technologies. The World Wide Web is the collection of linked pages that are accessed using the Internet and a web browser.

2.  English physicist Sir Tim Berners-Lee is regarded as having invented the World Wide Web in 1989. Since then he has continued the development of web standards and other web related projects.

3.  One of the best and most common ways of finding information on the web is through the use of search engines such as Google, Live and Yahoo. Google is currently the most popular search engine, receiving hundreds of millions of search queries every day.

4.  As well as the World Wide Web, the Internet is used for such application as email, file sharing, online chat, phone and video calls, online gaming and more.