Week 8 Social Media and Computing

Week 8 focused on visual social media. I learnt the different types and uses of images on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Youtube. I learnt why there are so many different services, the reason being that it is because each large media player has something different to offer. It is also due to the significant amount of different target audiences whether that be social media, original artwork hosting or professional photographers. We also went through different websites that focus mainly on visual imagery such as Instagram, Pinterest and Flickr. I also learnt about the copyright issues with Social Media. 

I watched the ted talk by Alessandro Acquisti about what will a future without secrets look like. I found this interesting as it is something likely to happen in the future due to the lack of privacy in everyday life due to social media. Social media will only evolve and grow bigger from year to year which means that privacy could almost become obsolete. It also scared me a bit as sites like Facebook are tracking your everyday activities on it and developing your news feed to make you more perceptive to buy/use their products.

This week we have no face to face lab, instead we have to complete an e-lab. The e-lab that we did was to create a Flickr account. Flickr is an online photo and video sharing website that has become very popular over the last few years. It's main function is to share videos and photos and allow people to watch and view these videos and photos. 
Here is the link to my Flickr account and the photos in the account.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/132204976@N07/sets/72157651235193557/

Here is a screenshot of my flickr account