Wiki So Far

I will admit that working on the Wiki was a little difficult for me to grasp at first but after I looked it through I tried to make helpful contributions.  I contributed to the page What is New Media and wrote the best explanation/ definition. I also edited one of the other links on spelling as I was reading through what others posted. I also contributed to the Health and Fitness page because I can related to it alot. I think my contributions may be better when I figure out how to use pictures in my posts!

P2P

 File Sharing is the exchange of cyber data between users on the internet, sometimes between 2 users or multiple users on certain content. File sharing has made the gathering of information much easier in the sense that you can share and receive almost any type of content through a network.

P2P File Sharing is sharing media between users. It stands for Peer to Peer sharing which basically means you're getting your media from other users. It gives you the cyber access to media such as books, videos, movies,music, games, websites and more. P2P software is required for exchanges of media.

Examples of P2P file Sharing are through Limewire, Frostwire, Kazaa and Napster. All of these in which were very popular when i was younger and it was the easy thing to download all of my iPod music off of. In the article Content producers should take advantage of P2P, not fear it by NMA staff; they used another P2P site called Pirate Bay to release a film. Sites such as Pirate Bay give people the opportunity to take movies and music and other types of media for themselves. Although using these sites and software are easy to do they pose large consequences of viruses and legal problems.

Advice to Baruch College

Using Media is a great way to outsource to the campus community freshman and seniors and employees alike. Some suggestions might be to create a Facebook page and an Instagram account where students can be featured and put their input on whats going on on campus. Another cool thing which I don't know if it has been done yet is create some Geo tags for Snapchat, this way there can be a feed of snap chats based and fueled by Baruch Students. A good way to get students involved is have a place on social media in which students can voice their opinions on things that they believe are important.

Privacy

In our age of new media, privacy has almost become non existent. It seems to be very hard to keep personal information to ourselves. We're now aware of hackers and identity theft, its a struggle to put information on social media without others having access to it. When we interact through social media and different networking sites, we may not realize the type of information that we are posting. Easily other users can see everything that we have put up, sometimes us as posters do not see the harm we can do to ourselves by simply sharing too much. On social networks such as Instagram, people who follow and do not follow you can see what you like and post depending on your privacy settings. Take Facebook, people can see nearly every aspect of your life! People put almost everything on Facebook: Check- Ins, Pictures, Videos, Posts and much more. It seems even though these social media outlets have privacy settings, your cyber life is not always that private.