Blog vs Wiki

Blogs and Wikis are part of a new wave of new media. They are just another way for people to communicate with each other on the internet. They are also another way for people to write things on the internet for everybody to see. Blogs and wikis are similar in the sense that they are applications where people can collaborate and put information/opinions on the internet. They are different in the way it is used. Blogs are run by at most a few people per blog. The only people that write the blogs is the people who created it. The issue with this is they control what is written and sometimes it is not good things. An example of this is from the New York Times paper called "Stung by the Perfect Sting" by Maureen Dowd. The article brings up model Liskula Cohen who was cyber-bullied through an unknown blog. This blog called her names that were insensitive. The problem with blogs is that people can hide behind them while making fun of people. Wikis on the other hand, anybody can edit the info. Blogs=opinions and Wikis=Information. In the article "Wikipedia Will Limit Changes to Articles on People" by Noam Cohen it talks about limiting change on articles. Wikipedia has had history of having somewhat faulty info due to that anybody can edit the articles. Part of it is so people are protected from having the wrong this said about them. Blogs can be used for any collaboration, but there need to be limits on what is said. Any blog website should process the blog before being published to see if it is acceptable. One thing wikis can do is maybe team up with the people wikis are about to get the right information.

Social Media: Good or Bad for our Health

For my project I chose to do it on Social Media: Good or Bad for our Health. Health is such a huge topic in today's world. Heath is both physical and mental and I will be discussing both aspects while talking about the positives and negatives. I believe that a persons health should be the number 1 priority in life. Other may say it is happiness or money. In reality both things correlate with social media and your Health. This will be talked about in my project. People will use social media so it can help them with things like exercise and others will use it so they can see other people and what their lives are like. Social Media when it was originally created such as Facebook was for the simple purpose of connecting with friends and family. Today in 2019 its use has completely changed. People using for exercise can be the good and others using it for looking at other peoples lives. Health isn't just the physical, it is mental as well and the positives and negatives of this will be discussed further in this project.