My word of the day is: Atavism

Atavism means; a recurrence of or reversion to a past style, manner, outlook, approach, or activity. 

I find this word fitting for this blog post because I realize that I have to start posting in this blog again or my media teacher will have it in for me. So I am going to reverse back into the habit of making ridiculous blog posts a regular occurrence again :/  Lucky you.

But no, the real reason for this blog post is to answer these questions;

What is my idea?
What form does it take? 
What conventions will it use? 
How will it target my audience? 
How will my campaign be launched? 
What do I need to plan for? 

Truth is I have no idea dudes. I just go with the flow to be honest and hope whatever I do just 'happens' and it 'happens' right the first time, but hey I'll give it ago.

My idea is to create a campaign that brings awareness to social network users, primarily teenagers, and communicates that what they post is their responsibility. It will take the form of a print based campaign and will also include a webpage relating to this message. The conventions that will be included is having the message we are trying to communicate in each print-based advertisement and it will target my audience because it will make the message memorable. I NEED to plan for planning (because I am terrible at that) and will also plan how my campaign will be launched.

Reflective post

So far from my research I have learn the background on social networking and what I need to include in my campaign. Firstly I need to create initial ideas for designing my campaign and pick the best one out of my designs with my partner, and then follow the steps of schedule on my brief (that I have posted beforehand.) - staying safe online and the dangers of Internet safety. 

Homework thingymabob thing

We had to analyse adverts that were centred around internet safety and social networking which was really interesting..... (insert sarcasim) I had LOTS of fun. 

Lol jk, I did actually enjoy it the adverts were hilarious. The first advert I watched was an advert called 'think before you post'.

In the video, there are people who are walking through the school corridor and see this photo of a girl she posted of herself on the board.  People start to take the photo and pass it around the school discussing it; the girl is unaware of who is taking the pictures and when she attempts to take the photo down off the board she cannot because they just don’t stop multiplying. It was like the photos became Gremlins and someone had thrown some water on ‘em or something. Then some really weird dude, the school janitor (so typical, I mean he is the school janitor for a reason right?) takes one of the photo gremlin things that won’t ever come down and smiles really creepily. Then the message of the advertisement appears.

Audience

The main targeted audience I think was teenage girls as the girl portrayed was a young teenage female in what I think is a high school, a time when people use the internet and social networking most often.

Message and purpose

The purpose of this advert was to make the targeted audience aware of what material they put online and that anyone can see it even people you don’t know thus the massage of the advert was ’’think before you post online’’. This advert was effective at communicating it to the audience because people tend to post things without thinking because they cannot see the immediate threat of doing so (out of sight out of mind as they say) but by putting it in a way that they can actually visually see other people taking there pictures or posts, talking about them and adjusting them, they realise that social networking and the internet is just like a post it board where there is no protection or limitation as to who can see it.

Social networking mistakes;

1.       People don’t Google there own names to see what everyone else see’s to protect their privacy. This is what came up when I put my name in (not me)

2.       People forget to check out Facebook privacy settings. Then...

 

3.       People post without thinking leading to embarrassing stuff. Example;

          
 

4.       People ‘like’ things without knowing the full details of what it is or whether it will save your information.

 

                                               

 

5.       People post intimate details of themselves online without thinking who could be looking at it (ie; Boss and get themselves fired) example would be;

         
          

 

6.       People add other people that they don’t even know. I mean there’s no way anyone knows 4,736 personally.

 

 

7.       People post their location or address on their social networking. You could be robbed.

I am not this dude

I conducted an internet search about myself to see what came up and to see if I was really 'safe'. Turns out I am! Because I could not actually find anything about myself on; Google search, Yahoo search or Bing search. Instead this is what came up.

When I searched images;

Search image Results

 

This guy also came up on my web search of myself. Maybe because I share my name with a famous WWE wrestler I couldn't find myself on the net. I think its a good thing that I do because it keeps me moderately safe from prying eyes I suppose. 

Some questions about On line life.

Why do we blame social networking for everything wrong with the world, when it is us that creates the negatives/positives?

Will we fully understand on-line behaviour and life? Or is it just too advanced that we never can?

Is on-line living the new reality of life? Does that mean the 'real life' isn't real?

Does someone really die when social networking is involved?

Is social networking man's way to achieve the long term human dreams of immortality, equality and peace?

Is there a limit to social networking? If not now, will there ever be?

Does social networking promote freedom or restrict it?

Glossary of words related to social networking

Aggregator

• A website that collects news from other websites

Anonymizer

• A website that allows someone to use the Internet without leaving any sign of who they are

Brochure site

• A simple website, often consisting of just one page, that advertises a company’s products and gives general information about the company

 Content provider

• A website that contains mostly news or information, or a business that provides the information for that website

Discussion list

• A website where people can discuss a particular subject

 

Electronic mall

• A website that sells the products and services of different companies

 

E-network

• A website where people can exchange ideas about business and other subjects, especially one that you have to pay to use

 

Forum

• A website, newspaper, television programme etc where people can express their ideas and opinions

 

Ghost site

• An old website that you can still look at

 

Listening post

• A website on the Internet where you can listen to music

 

 Mashup

• A website or piece of software making use of information from more than one website, for example using photographs from one website and text from another

 

Mirror site

• An exact copy of a busy website that is created to reduce the number of people visiting the main website

 Moblog

• A weblog (a website that frequently has new personal information added to it) that contains mainly photographs from mobile phones or pdas

 

Portal

• An Internet site (place) that has links (connections) to other places

 

Rogue site

• A website that people go to because it has a name that is similar to that of a popular website

 

Search directory

• A website that contains links to other websites, organized according to subject and in alphabetical order

 

Social networking site

• A website such as Facebook or MySpace that allows you to communicate with friends and make new friends

SoNet site

• A social networking website

Splog

• A website that copies the style of a weblog as a joke

Storefront

• A website that is similar to a shop because it provides product information and you can buy goods from it

Vlog

• A weblog (=a personal website that frequently has new information added to it) that contains mainly video

Walled garden

• A website that you need a username and password to use or that limits what you can look at