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Google + Just Another Choice

Sunday, July 24th, 2011

So, I have joined that ten million plus bandwagon and I have a Google+ account and I love it.  I love the way that it controls privacy.  I love the hangout feature.  I love everything about it.  Will I give up my Facebook account, not anytime soon.  Why you may ask.  If I love Google+ so much, and it’s supposed to be a “Facebook killer,” and it shares so many features with Facebook, why would I have both.  The answer is simple, Google+ is a great tool to communicate with people you already know and care about, Facebook is to communicate a message with the rest of the world.  Mark Zuckerberg sees information as something that should be shared, and that is the way that Facebook is designed, and the rest of the world has agreed.  When the New York Times has a “Like” button, that is when you know that Facebook has been integrated into your daily life and your daily existence.  Once more people I know, as opposed to computer engineers from New York, are on Google+ this tool will be great in communicating a message to a small group of people.  When I want to tell everyone I know something, that is when I go to Facebook.  I do believe that the world and the internet are big enough for Google Plus and Facebook.

 

Italian Google Executives Convictied for Privacy Violations

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

What is Google’s responsibility for what is uploaded on to the internet?  What are internet service provider‘s responsibilities for what other people do?  An Italian Court has ruled four executives, including the former head of Google Italy liable for privacy infractions for allowing a video of a child with down syndrome being bullied while students watched to be uploaded on the internet and for the video to stay up on the internet.  The executives were given six month suspended sentences, pay fines, and publish the decision in the Italian press.  Here is an example of a government trying to play a role in protecting those who are on the internet videos, but where is the line.  Where is the line when millions of videos are published on the internet, will all internet service providers be sued, is the new frontier of the internet closing.  These are questions we will all be watching.