History of Cell Phones

A cellular phone is a wireless phone that most people these days communicate with. It seemS that not to long ago that people were still using house phones.

In 1843 a man by the name of Michael Faraday studied to see if space could conduct electricity. This man lead to the cell phone development. In the year of 1865 Doctor Mahlon Loomis was the first person to communicate through wireless atmosphere. He came up with the idea of transmitting and receiving messages through atmosphere as a conductor. Loomis was awarded 50,000 for his research.

In 1973 martin copper came up with Motorola. He took the project and let the people of New York see it. In 1977 the first cell phone was made in Chicago . When it first came out 2000 people was given a free trial. Then other places started to make cell phones. When to cell phone first came out they were huge. The people did not know how to make the phone any more compact. In 1988 the big company's started to make cell phones. There were over 54 places all over the world.

Throughout the decades, there have been many technologies that existed that made mobile phones available. Most of the time, these phones were installed in vehicles due to the large battery requirements. For instance, the MTA (Mobile Telephone System A) developed by Eriksson was available in Sweden in 1950's. Unfortunately, it weighed over 80 pounds, later versions however weighed around the 20 pound range, still making it ineffective for truly portable devices that are used today.

Cellphone

The cellphone is predominantely the most important and most used technology of the new media. It entails numerous aspects that appeal to the greater numbers of humans. it has many features such as sms,mms, video calling, camera, music player as well as recorders and calender.

New media technologies have advenced radically over the centuries. They have become part of our daily lives, and to a large extent part of our lives.

Cellphones have become an important part of our everyday life. They are no longer viewed as a luxury but more as a necessity. They have changed the way people communicate forever. it is no longer a necessity to be at home or the office to talk to others.

There is a great importance for cellphones in our modern society. Cell phones have become a neccessity for many people throughout the world. They give you the ability to keep in touch with family, friends and business associates without having physical contact.

Today's technically advance cellphones are capable of not only receiving and placing phone calls and keeping in touch with friends and family anywhere in the world, it is also used for storing data, taking pictures, interacting on social networks, downloading of music, movies,videos and other media related content. Downloading is an important feature for cellphones as users can download music, videos as wellas mobile social networks such as mxit and soon to come mobile facebook.

Cellphones are the perfect way to stay connected and they provide the user with a sense of security.In the event of an emergency, having a cellphones can allow help to reach you quickly and could possibly save lives.

Mobile phone use can be an important matter of social discourtesy:phones ringing during funerals,or weddings; in toilets cinemas and theatres.

Facebook

Facebook as an example of a social network allows users to join networks with people all over the world. Users or members are able to join one or more networks, organized by city, workplace, school and region. Since it launch in 2004 Facebook has gained extensive popularity among University and College students. Facebook was named the second most popular thing among undergraduates, tied with beer and sex and only ranked lower than the iPod.

Users register with Facebook and create their personal profiles to notify their friends about themselves and their membership with Facebook. Facebook also allow users to trace their friends or colleagues from the same networks and invite them to have access to their profiles, thus the viewing of profiles by unconfirmed friends is restricted. Users can inform their friends about any changes in individual activities and new friends added on the friend’s list.

Facebook offers a variety of features including, a wall for posting messages, photo uploading and even online chatting. The chatting feature allows users to chat with their friends who may be online or offline. When both users are online they can chat in a way similar to that of mobile phones instant messaging (sms).

The other good thing about Facebook is that users can network and even seek employment through Facebook!

Social Networks: How they have changed everyday life Communication

Social network services allow communities of people to explore the lives and interest of others through various way of interaction such as emails, chatting, blogging videos and so forth. It enhances communication and information flow .This has real changed the traditional ways of communication. It has help people overcome the limits of face-to-face communication, for example groups of people that have the software that allows social networking no longer have to meet in person when they have things to discuss but do it through discussion groups’ services provided by social network software.

Social Networks also allow instant contact with other people despite the physical distance separating them. People even send invites to their friends through social networks such as Facebook. This replaces the need to write letters to different people and having to commute from one place to another to deliver a message or even to attend a meeting. Communication through social networks such as Mxit and Facebook allow users to manage the multiple, simultaneous tasks that characterize contemporary life. Individuals can be in several physical locations at the same time. This sometimes enables users or members of social network to play several different roles at once in everyday life.

Identity in Social Networks

Social Networks makes possible the construction of flexible or multiple identities, as people may detach from their physical body. A person online may choose to put on a different body or identity that is different to when their physical body is present. This means that in online communication and any other forms of new media, users are involved in some form of identity management.

In the disembodied world of the virtual community, identity is ambiguous. It is therefore hard to understand the ‘true self’ of the individual as the people are free to take on new names and even change their genders and describe themselves in any way they may wish to appear. For example John can become Joanne.

People not only use the internet more and more to interact with others, but they use it to socialize, to generate some lasting relationships and even to develop a real social virtual life.

Social Networks enable it users to avoid giving out too much information when interacting with someone they do not have any information about. For example on Facebook users are able to choose who they want and do not want to form social networks with.

Social Networks thus provide places where online users are able to create and develop group identities. For example users of Facebook have members that share some form of group identities. Thus our online identities could be said to be influenced by of those we communicate with.

The unscrupulous side of internet downloading

It goes without saying that new media technologies such as the internet have given us the pleasure of being connected to the rest of the world with just a click. A simple click on the internet allows us to effeciently and effectively organise our lives without even moving an inch. More often than not we have come to form trust bonds with services offered to us by the internet as we trust them more than our friends, for instance, to do the job for us in the most efficient and trustworthy of ways. However, for in as much as the use of these technologies mean to make our lives easier and in most cases bring the world to our living rooms, con artists have gone high-tech, using the Internet to defraud consumers in a variety of clever ways. Whether they're using the excitement of an Internet auction to entice consumers into parting with their money, applying new technology to peddle traditional business opportunity scams, using email to reach vast numbers of people with false promises about earnings through day trading, or hijacking consumers' modems and cramming hefty long-distance charges onto their phone bills, scam artists are just a click away.

Movieland, which advertises its product by using pop-up ads at other sites with access to members-only content including music, news, updated sports scores and adult movies, has been surrounded by a cloud of scandal and shame with users alleging that the service demands them to pay for products they never even subcribed to, charging at $29.95 per month to stop the pop-up cycles. Services such as these give internet services a negative identity as immoral and unprincipled. Moreover such services make the use of the Internet in our everyday lives a pain especially since these pop-ups are usually so large they make it virtually impossible for users to carry out whatever work it is that they are trying to get done. And so in this regard the internet becomes yet another avenue for people with no morale to exploit and con innocent people of their hard earned money.

History of Social Networks

A social network is a social structure made up of individuals or organizations tied by interdependency that requires them to stay in contact whether for purposes of pleasure or work. The people who form social networks could be tied by interdependencies such as values, friendship, business and so on.
Amongst the early efforts to support social networks via computer-mediated communication, are Usenet , Listserve, bulletin board services , Murray Turoff's server-based Electronic Information Exchange Service (Turoff and Hiltz, 1978, 1993). Examples of early social networking websites included classmate.com (1995), this social network helped maintain relationships among former school mates, and SixDegrees.com (1997) . These social networks allowed for user profiles to be created, messages sent to members on the “friends list” and to those with similar interest to yours in their profiles.

Social Networks are made up of Two different models of social networking that came about in 1999 and these are trust-based, developed by Epinions.com, and friendship-based, such as those developed by Jonathan Bishop. The impact of new media technologies on social networks allows not only showing who is "friends" with whom, but giving users more control over content and connectivity. Facebook is an example of a social network that has grown rapidly in size, since it launching in 2004. In 2007, Facebook began allowing externally-developed add-on applications, and some applications enabled the graphing of a user's own social network - thus linking social networks and social networking.