Flickr

In this post, I am going to look at the website Flickr. My class had an assignment to create albums on Flickr. While doing this, I learned about some advantages and disadvantages of this site.
       I'll do the good stuff first. Now, Flickr is a great website that utilizes the Creative Commons. I think it's great that there is a specific photo-sharing website like Flickr where the pictures are available to all without the worry of copyright. Plus, if you post pictures, you won't lose all the rights to it. You can set specific guidelines according to the Creative Commons license you choose.
       Like I said, there are some things that aren't so great about Flickr. First off, the pictures are not what I would call quality, interesting photos. Also, the search engine wouldn't find me or my friend or our pictures and we have no idea why. Another thing I dislike is that I know that there is a map feature you can add to pictures, but I couldn't find it anywhere. For part of our assignment we were supposed to add that, so it made me mad that it was nowhere to be found.
       Well, now you know how I feel about Flickr. I probably won't go on it again because, like I said, I just don't like the pictures. For some reason, they're not that good. Maybe you like it. If so, maybe you'll want to leave me a comment and tell me why. Thanks for reading!

Reflection Post

There are many things I learned so far in computers class. I have learned how identity theft takes place, and how said identity theft can be prevented, and what to do if it happens to you. I've also learned a lot about cyber-bullying. Did you know that chat rooms are where most bullies and sexual predators go to find victims? This and many other facts I have learned while studying cyber-bullying. Speaking of sexual predators, we have been learning about online safety too. For instance, never give out your address, phone number, picture, or school to someone you meet online. Certainly never agree to meet them somewhere. Tying in with online safety is password safety. We've learned things like how to create a secure password. To do this, have both capital and lower letters in the password. Make your password something that is easy for you to remember, but hard for others to guess. Keep in mind that you should never share your passwords.

These facts are just a few of the many things we learned during a few weeks in Computers class. I hope you learned something, too!

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Technology Blog Post

There is a new piece of technology I found while researching on the Internet. It's called the Universal Communicator. It's mainly for people with hearing, speaking, and seeing disabilities, but those without disabilities can use it too. It's basically like a wrist phone, and a ring included. If you don't have the disabilities, the wrist bracelet and ring go on one hand. If you are suffering from disabilities, they go on different hands to sense movement. What is does is it can convert sign language into words or a vocal message. Also, if you are perfectly normal, there is a speaker on the ring and a microphone on the bracelet so you can talk on the phone. It really is a pretty nifty device, though it probably would cost a pretty penny.

http://wordlesstech.com/2011/04/03/universal-communicator/

Guarding My Personal Information

To be honest, there isn't much personal information of mine that I handle, except for my passwords to online things. I don't share my passwords with anyone. I hope you don't either. I haven't given too much thought to protecting information, but I am cautious and I use my common sense. Everyone should.
To me, the term Identity Theft means someone trying to be you to take advantage of something you have and they don't. It could be money, reputation, friends even. In my opinion, identity theft is just ridiculous because, in all this time that you're spending trying to be another person, you could be making yourself someone you want to be. It's like you're giving them all your time, having them angry at you because of it, and then there's the constant threat of jail. All that just to get some money. It's sad, really. PA-THE-TIC. I hope everyone out there who is a victim and is victimizing someone else can change the bad situation they're in.

Christmas Break

Over my Christmas break, I didn't do much. I just relaxed a lot, played Sims 3, and did sketches for my art class. We went to Christmas Eve church, and then, of course, our family, with my aunts and uncles and cousins and such, had a Christmas party and it was nice. We had an ugly sweater contest and my dad won, so that was funny. What was especially funny was that he hadn't even been trying to win, and what he won a picture of his niece's coworker's boyfriend from the 1970s. His niece had gotten it from a White Elephant party at her work. For New Year's Eve, I had two friends over and we watched The Twilight Zone for a lot of the night because it was on a marathon. I gave them gifts of candy and a picture to hang on their walls. My friend Lily got the one that had a butterfly and the word "fleur" on it and was really pretty. Kim, my other friend, go on that had sort of a life map on it and phrases like "love" and "life" and "believe in yourself". It suited her personality and the butterfly one suited Lily's. So, that was my Christmas break. If anyone actually reads my posts (and I don't know why you would), you can tell me what you did for break and maybe what you'd like me to post. Bye :)

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