They say the first step to recovery is admitting you have an addiction, I - and as far as I see it, everybody else on the planet has an addiction to Facebook. You could be fooled into thinking that the class I am in is actually Facebook addict’s anonymous. Currently I can see 7 people logged into some sort of social networking website, 3 of which are on mobile phones, and all are engaged in some sort of endless conversation with those around them. I sadly enough am doing all 3 of these. But out of a class of 16, 10 of which could easily stand up and say "I have an addiction" this leaves 6 people that don’t have some sort of ADD. That’s 3 quarters of the population addicted to social networking, worse than any form of narcotics.
http://socialnetworkingrehab.blogspot.com/ a site that deals with recovering twitter addicts…
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Even I sometimes have an addiction to myspace but as many excuses I could make up for it there is still the fact I’m on there in the first place, let alone facebook, or vampire freaks, or friends or enemies, or another thousand names that would give me equal reason to believe that web 2.0 is the reason for social networks and social networks are just another reason for that percentage of the population are wasting their time and just another tool for that percentage of the population to ruin their lives with. People date, people commit suicide, people become famous for ridiculously stupid reasons, it’s hard to even think or believe that good comes from this sense of the web in its conception of version 2.0, I’m sure that some people would much rather spend their time doing lines of coke and ruining lives constructively than destroying it under the terms of web 2.0.
here is the layouts dude first ones blog and second ones comment
Queensland University of Technology – Creative Industries
KCB 201 – Virtual Cultures (Assignment 2)
Social Blogging Portfolio
Jason Paparoulas
FULL NAME: JASON A. PAPAROULAS
STUDENT ID: N5723892
BLOGSPOT USERNAME: JPAPAROULAS
BLOGSPOT WEB ADDRESS: HTTP://JPAPAROULAS.BLOGSPOT.COM
TUTORIAL DAY/TIME: THURSDAY 1:00pm - 3:00pm KCB201 LAB, KG-Z2-101
TUTOR NAME: THOMAS PETZOLD
A Cause to Web 2.0: A Cause to Web 2.0: Projection of media and identity in a world of web 2.0.
http://jpaparoulas.blogspot.com/2008/04/case-to-web-20.html
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Posted by j.paparoulas at 8:53 PM
This post represents a personal reflection on the outcomes and effects on physical forms of life through the digital platform or product of web 2.0. This physical form of life was represented by my bands myspace and the individual effects are reflected upon through page views, song plays, friend counts, friend comments and so much more…
A Cause to Web 2.0: Projection of media and identity in a world of web 2.0.
As a member of a band from the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane (see. A Cause to Unites Myspace) we could be a lame singled out band going nowhere practicing weekly dedicating our lives to something that could very well never become anything. Sure everything could be done in the sense of analogue, in a garage or a practice space where we play our instruments we write and produce songs that hopefully someone will here when we record and release something (a full length or an extended play and the finite demo) and buy at a shop or a show that we would be on the bill for.
To me it would be nothing without the help of the web, specifically web 2.0, with the inapt sense of social networks, and online networks that really instead of just using we enlist the help of.
• In a world of today where as a band I believe its not only the player that makes the musician but the instruments and the sound behind the player also, and being a student as well as a musician the sense is we as individuals are poor or lacking wealth thereof; is the truth. So we enlist the likes eBay (the first reason to web 2.0) where you can look like a rock star for way cheaper than Billy Hyde or Ellaways suggest, without this sense of web 2.0 we’d be paying $6499.00 if we payed retail for our amplifier heads, $4995.00 if we went to a retailer suggesting a good price, and $2995.00 if we used eBay to find the same amplifier. That’s just a sense of how web 2.0 generally affects day-to-day reality as a band and a musician.
see. www.ebay.com.au
see. www.bmusic.com.au
• The second is social identity how else are we as a band to promote ourselves for other people to see and hear outside of the physical word of noise in a room while people rave around to the loud thing we call a band. This could include anything, myspace, facebook, purevolume, iTunes and so on the list is endless. The web 2.0 generally gave birth to these sites (see. The Art of Building Virtual Communities), and with them came the birth of an entire generation of self-artist representation. This meant an unlimited number of members of these sites could now listen, and learn about your band and the music that accompanies it; I believe that we have 30,000 more people listening to us than we would have had without this form of virtual societal representation. Individuals can view our images, listen to us, and base their own opinion or strengthen others opinions through page views, friends lists, songs plays, and friends comments etc… Cd’s can be sold downloaded, and re-downloaded, merchandise can be bought and sold, flyers can now be sent through bulletins blogs and take their stakes on main pages, shows can be booked, and bands can be managed by individuals without the name of an A & R representative without the use of degree’s and without the use of spending copious amounts of money (see. Blog, social network buzz correlates to better album sales; Does Chatter Matter? The Impact of User-Generated Content on Music Sales).
References:
A Cause To Unite. (2008). A CAUSE TO UNITE! RIP Mitch Warner – Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, AU – Hardcore/Big Beat/2-step. http://www.myspace.com/acausetounite (Accessed April 16, 2008).
eBay. (2008). NEW! HUGHES AND KETTNER TRIAMP MKII ALEX LIFESON AMP. http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-HUGHES-AND-KETTNER-TRIAMP-MKII-ALEX-LIFESON-AMP_W0QQitemZ280218465609QQihZ018QQcategoryZ10171QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem (Accessed April 16, 2008).
bMusic. (2008). Hughes & Kettner Triamp MKII. http://www.bmusic.com.au/prod4308.htm (Accessed April 16, 2008).
21st Century Learning. (2007). The Art of Building Virtual Communities. http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com/blog/2007/08/the-art-of-buil.html (accessed April 10, 2008)
Cheng, J. (2008). Blog, social network buzz correlates to better album sales. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080209-blog-social-network-buzz-correlates-to-better-album-sales.html (Accessed April 16, 2008).
Chang, E & Dhar, V. (2007). Does Chatter Matter? The Impact of User-Generated Content on Music Sales. https://archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/23783 (Accessed April 16, 2008).
BLOGSPOT USERNAME: HANSUA
BLOGSPOT WEB ADDRESS: http://hansua.blogspot.com/
BLOGSPOT COMMENT ADDRESS: https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5518945829886015871&postID=3060972226700335190&isPopup=true
In the same way that my Band represents themselves through Web 2.0 I found that this representation of a physical concept of semi-permanent to further back-up the idea of web 2.0 representations of the physical and the impact of such representations on the physical outcomes.
It’s funny that your not particularly using this for KCB201 I found it a direct relation to what was referring to within my a cause to web 2.0, in the way that you promoted semi-permanent through the extension of web 2.0 application Facebook in the same way that through myspace my band has created social identity to promote ourselves for other people to see and hear outside of the physical word of noise in a room while people rave around to the loud thing we call a band (in the same way you’ve extended the physical realm of promotion to digital). The same way you’ve included Facebook in this activity, this could include anything, myspace, purevolume, iTunes and so on the list is endless. The web 2.0 generally gave birth to these sites and with them came the birth of an entire generation of self-artist representation. This meant an unlimited number of members of these sites could now listen, and learn about your band and the music that accompanies it; I believe that we have 30,000 more people listening to us than we would have had without this form of virtual societal representation, in the same way that you yourself believed you did for semi-permanent in its physical form through the digital web 2.0 representation of your semi-permanent Facebook event profile/group. Individuals can view our images, listen to us, and base their own opinion or strengthen others opinions through page views, friends lists, songs plays, and friends comments etc… Cd’s can be sold downloaded, and re-downloaded, merchandise can be bought and sold, flyers can now be sent through bulletins blogs and take their stakes on main pages, shows can be booked, and bands can be managed by individuals without the name of an A & R representative without the use of degree’s and without the use of spending copious amounts of money, in the same way that tickets are bought sold, information discussed, hype is generated, excitement is generated and so forth and so on.
A Cause To Unite. (2008). A CAUSE TO UNITE! RIP Mitch Warner – Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, AU – Hardcore/Big Beat/2-step. http://www.myspace.com/acausetounite (Accessed April 16, 2008).
Cheng, J. (2008). Blog, social network buzz correlates to better album sales. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080209-blog-social-network-buzz-correlates-to-better-album-sales.html (Accessed April 16, 2008).
Chang, E & Dhar, V. (2007). Does Chatter Matter? The Impact of User-Generated Content on Music Sales. https://archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/23783 (Accessed April 16, 2008).
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