News Article #3

www.CNN.com/technology

Users Protest, Defend Facebook Face-Lift

Someone hold the phone!! Facebook is changed, and people are panicking! Wow. We all are very familiar with the social network site Facebook, and we are all aware of the changes to the site. However, to find that this is the opening article on CNN's tech page is a little ridiculous, and I think that people just need to calm down a little bit. Every site needs to make changes and improvements to stay at the top of the game. Granted, it is a little frustrating to have to get used to the new format, but at the same time I don't think people will even remember the old Facebook in a month. Close to 100 million people worldwide are now networking through the site so I don't think that it is going to be disappearing anytime soon, no matter how upset people get.

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News Article #2

www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/business/21count.html?_r=technology&oref=slogin

Users Are Tossing Their Landlines Overboard

Time are changing in the ways of communication, and telephone companies are taking a hit because of it. This particular article talked about how more and more people are cutting costs by getting rid of their land line due to the increasing use of personal cell phones. Personally, I can relate to this because we just got rid of the land line at my house back home, and I can't think of one person that I know on campus that has a house phone. A friend and I were just discussing how we could remember using the old school phones. A long cord that you could wrap yourself in, to phones that you could lose in your pocket is quite a change. I personally think that our generation will not use landlines and will become more and more dependent on cell phones and the Internet to communicate. 

News Article #1

CNN.com/technology

"CIA/FBI push 'Facebook for Spies'"

I found this particular article to be very interesting for a number of reasons. For starters, much like this website, people are using the web to socially connect and post information more and more each day. The government didn't let this new trend go without consideration because as of September 22nd, 16 U.S. intelligence agencies are connected through a website called "A-Space". The purpose of this website is to allow different government officials to share information within an online community. I think that this is interesting and somewhat humorous to think about a bunch of CIA agents checking up on their wall posts everyday, but at the same time I'm sure that information is being spread much faster than ever. The internet is becoming the dominant way to communicate for our generation, and it was only a matter of time before the government jumped on board.