1. How the E-book will change the way we read and write: Agree, disagree, thoughts?
2. Facebook Stalker Button: Is this the final step in on-line voyeurism? While this may seem somewhat over-the-top, if you had this magic button, would you be enticed to follow a friend .... all the time?
Share your thoughts, ideas, and feedback.
5 comments:
"Facebook Stalker Button": Implementing a button to follow every single action and update of your friend on facebook takes it to a whole different level. In my opinion, Facebook is mostly about stalking people, looking at people's photos, and other assortments of activities. I am not saying that everyone that uses facebook is a stalker, but really, when you are on facebook do you just sit and wait for someone to post on your wall, or do you look around what other people are doing. Personally, I would not use the stalker button since it is really creepy to know every action that someone makes on facebook. In conclusion, the Facebook Stalker Button just makes it easier for stalkers to stalk their prey more efficiently
"How the E-book will change the way we read and write": It accurately describes my problems with e-book readers, and introduces several new ones. I agree that nothing will ever be able to compete with feeling of sitting down in an armchair on a windy, rainy, afternoon with a good book and reading until dinner. The author does present an interesting opinion of the creation an iTunes-type store for individual book chapters.
"Facebook Stalker Button": I think this concept of following a friend at all times and getting updates 24-7 is an easy way for people to become subject to serious stalkers. Yes, you do have to be friends with them on facebook to "subscribe" to a friend, but it is still too much. There is already a button on some iphones and ipods that allows you to know where your friends are on a map. If you press this specific button, you are letting all of your friends know (sometimes over 1,000 people- most of whom you probably don't speak to) where you are at all times. This can be a dangerous tool subject to people who will abuse the privilege. Also, if someone on your friends list "subscribes" to you, you should have the right to be notified or at least allow this to happen. If not, this button could get out of hand.
E-Book:
As a previous anti-E-Book girl, I switched this summer when I tried out my Dad's Kindle. I think people underestimate the "power"of E-Books-it's very similar to reading an actual book, except lighter, somewhat cheaper, and more eco-friendly. This article raised some points I never thought of before-like in the future being able to buy a chapter for 99 cents, and the idea that in the future you won't be as immersed in a book as people have been in the past. However, the whole idea of "judging a book by it's cover" will no longer exist, and that's how I usually find my books-although I probably shouldn't! All in all, this article made me think about the future of book-reading.
"How the E-book will change the way we read and write": I have never used an E-book before but I have read a book on the kindle. Personally I am opposed to both of them. I like the feeling of a book in your hand and the crinkle of the pages when you turn them etc. I think portable digital reading devices are over-rated. Of course they may make finding books a little easier but if you are a true reader enthusiast I think you should stay with the old fashioned way of reading.
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