Daniel Tam New Media: Online Dating vs. Offline Dating

Throughout the past few weeks, I edited grammars and formatted pictures on content other people contributed. I have also contributed by adding a few paragraphs and some pictures to existing new media topics. The topics I added content to includes New Media in Love, Fashion, MMORPGs, and Twitch.tv. I created another section for Finding Love through the use of Mobile Apps which is section 5.11 for the dating app Tantan. Tantan is a Chinese dating app that is mainly use by Asians and is extremely similar to Tinder which causes it to be known as the Chinese version of Tinder. Under section 5.11 I added a paragraph explaining what Tantan is like, comparing it, and explaining how to use it. I also added another paragraph to section 5.13 of the same topic known as the Dangers of Online Love Finding. Here I inputted a case that happened a few years ago where an online dating app user got murdered by the online date she was meeting up with. For Social Media and Fashion I created a new sec

File sharing is what it sounds like, sharing files or transmitting files via networks or Internet. P2P file sharing is peer-to-peer file sharing through a sharing file software that is connected to other networks. P2P has a lot of benefits including saving lots of money by downloading files that you otherwise have to pay for yourself. People should take advantage of P2P file sharing as mentioned in "Take Advantage of P2P - not fear it" by King. I agree people should take advantage of P2P file sharing, but should definitely be careful when doing so. This is because all files are shared by other users and have a chance of having viruses and other issues. I have used P2P file sharing in the past and have had bad experiences. I was an inexperienced user back in elementary school and I was introduced by a friend to use LimeWire to download music, as a result it was indeed very convenient but I found out later to have a lot of viruses on my computer. It was later found out to be

With the rise of social media and network platforms, there is practically no privacy and confidentiality. Everyone today especially the innocent naive users post everything they do online thinking only their friends and families could see it. Little did they know anyone that is slightly better with computers can find out what they posted at ease if they wanted to. People post things like pictures, comments, identity information (I do not know why people would ever do that). They are the prey to the cyber attackers out in the Internet world and can actually harm them in real life, such has stalkers. Not only is there hackers and other criminals out there going through people's information. There is also the government that spies on everyone to see if people are up to no good. This is indeed supposed to be in good intention, but it does not stop the fact that they are invading people's privacy. There are also big corporations and other jobs opportunities that look at people&#

There are many ways new media can be used to improve college experience for professor's and students. One way would be professors making a YouTube video of their lecture slides and voice recording as materials for online/hybrid courses. This can really help because just reading lecture slides might be confusing, so adding a voice recording of explanation would definitely help and people generally learn better with both visual and listening. Another way is for every student and professor to have a Facebook account for college use only. Every student will then be invited to a group by each of their professors so that the group is organized into every class/section. All materials, announcements, and grades would be posted to the group and things not related to the class won't be there. People can also share information in case anyone missed anything during class. This is definitely better than Blackboard because people tend to check social media more than Blackboard. Social medi

In this 2D world there are many creativity possibilities. I made a "me" avatar as you can see standing on a floating rock. The highlight for me in this world is when I do quest/missions, especially party quests with other individuals in this world because I like the accomplishment of completing them. Just like it sound "party quest" is creating a group with up to 6 people to figure out how to complete the quest within a given amount of time. Everyone is required to think out of the box, show coordination, and help each other out. But of course this is not the only thing I did in this world. I also like to start my own mini business in which I sell rare items I acquire from quest or from hunting monsters. Oh, I forgot to mention the cute orange mushrooms in this screenshot are actually "wild monsters" as you can tell by that "danger" sign I am facing. Another fun thing is building my avatar's looks and attributes. I tend

New media have always fostered creativity in one way or another. YouTube have always allowed it's users to post videos or music that can be unique to themselves that also gives other ideas. A lot of viewers on YouTube share and generate ideas through others; it's like a community. For example, the way a YouTuber vlogs is something they created that might result as a trend that others follow. In article, "1+1+1=1" they talk about mashing up different music into one song. It is the creativity of taking certain parts of each song that will fit well together and harmonizing it. A good example would be "Debra" a song by Beck and "Frontin" a collaboration by Jay-Z and Pharrell Williams. The two songs mashed up together is later known as "Frontin on Debra". Without new media everything will be a lot more isolated from one another. Not saying that there can't be creativity without new media, but with new media it definitely helps and complime