Facebook is using you

the article " Facebook is using you" by Lori Andrew talks about how the internet and social networking or even emails has ways to track down your personal information and send you ads about something you recently searched. It also talks about how jobs can search your history online, and what you've done can deter you from getting the job you want. If you think about it, it's kind of crazy how you think you have privacy on websites like Facebook, but you really don't. For example if on your facebook profile there is something about you liking a certain t.v show or a number of T.v shows then there will be ads about watching shows like that or ads for that show. I never knew that Facebook, Twitter, Emails, and websites like that were a franchising website. It's kind of weird that something that you type in your browser, can be sent to these companies who advertise, and without you even knowing it, they give you ads trying to persuade you to but these things. Most people don't click on them but obviously some people are since they are making so much money and the people that created facebook, twitter, and emails are rich.some thing amazed me in this article is the statement that was made about what you do in your life can be easily used against you, whether you can get a job, get credit, or even get insurance, can be based on your online profile, and they will never inform you why you were denied something.

Whitney Houston death

Whitney Houston death was something that stunned alot of her fans. It also shocked alot of people. When it cam out that she had passes away it left the world feeling incomplete. She was a icon, she was someone who alot of people looked up to. Everybody knew about the mistakes she made in her life but also everybody also knew about how she changed and how committed she was. The most shocking thing about the whole situation was that she died the day before the a major event, that she was supposed to attend. Then on top of that she was in the making of a new movie.Her funeral was something that everybody took time to sit down and watch. It was on cnn, so i know all the people who didn't have cable or internet to access it online, were upset because they did not get a chance to see her funeral. It was a very nice service, alot of famous people who loved her spoke on her behalf. They talked about how much they were going to miss hearing her voice and seeing how she always was smiling.Her funeral was full of people singing, people talking about her, speeches, and prayer. One thing I found really nice about her service was the fact that at the end they took her casket out while playing her song "I will always love you", i also liked the fact that her security guards carried her out on their shoulders, and I know that it could not have been the lightest thing to carry.

im a criminal so are you

The main idea  of this article says "in this country, we force millions of people who are largely black and brown into a permanent second class status, simply because they once committed a crime." i agree with this statement because that's what us Americans do, we think that if someone has been convicted of a crime that, that person should be watched all the time or treated a little different. Something that i don't agree with is that every criminal should have the same rights as us. It should be depending on the crime that was committed. Say if someone got arrested for smoking pot at the age of 17 and got arrested or caught, then when they get out and they are around the age 30 or 40 they still are getting the consequences of making that one mistake when they were a teenager, I don't agree with that. I think if the crime is something serious like someone being a rapist they still should have an opportunity to get a job but maybe not a job around kids, but they still have the right to be alive, and have a life because they did and served their time in prison for the crime they committed. I believe that the people in this society do look down to criminals just because they have a record, but people need to keep it real because no matter if they know it or not, everyone one time in their life has committed a crime, no matter how big or small it is, but that doesn't give anyone the right to look at someone like they as less of a person, just think that crime you committed is still a crime, you just didn't get caught for it.

Photoshopped or Not? A Tool to Tell

Dr. Farid and Eric Kee, a Ph.D. student in computer science at Darmouth, are proposing a software tool for measuring how much fashion and beauty photos have been altered, a -to-5 scale that distinguishes the very lottle from fantastic. says the article called Photoshopped or not? A tool to tell. In this article it talks about places and companies taking pictures of imperfect people and fixing their blemishes and their weight. I think that if you take a picture it should not be photo shopped and also if you take a picture it should just be natural. Maybe you could just change the color, or the tone, don't change the texture of someone's face or if they have a pimple keep it there, because that's just who they are, and once you remove that, its not that person exactly. Its false advertising someone features, and once you see that person in person you will be shocked because they are not as perfect as they are in the picture. In real life when you become a model when you take pictures, the editor or the photographer will edit something about you, or something on you. Or even when you are a singer when you take pictures and choose the picture on your album it is not the same picture when you first took it. I think that editing my picture without my consent would make me mad, I would feel as though there was something wrong with me and it would be giving audiences false advertisements. I also think that when people get their pictures photo shopped deep down inside it makes them kind of mad too.

In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an ipad

"In China, Human Costs Are Built into an ipad" the apple company pays workers to  polish thousands of ipad cases a day. They make low incomes. They work very hard in China to make the money off of the product everyone is buying in America, but they are barely making a living from the paychecks they receive. They make about $22 a day, and in chin or even everywhere $22  is not enough to live anywhere or do anything. In this article they give little anecdotes bout the lives of some of the workers. They describe how one man makes a small income and lives in a small bedroom big enough for just one bed and  desk wit a computer on it, that he play's his favorite game on. It talks about the dangers that most of the workers at this company can go through and the course of a day. This article makes me thankful that we get paid more here in America and have more safety rules to follow to prevent us from dangerous jobs. I feel bad for the people that work at these types of company's because they work very hard and really don't make a lot of money. I can infer that from this article workers really don't have enough education to work at a lot of different places, so they just settle for what they can get at this point. What i would like to know is why the apple company makes so much money but pays their workers so little.I would also like to know why apple is being so cheap.