Thursday, January 20, 2011

Debate Opening Statement: Facebook

I believe that Online Social networks are not harmful to society.Geography is one of the largest differences between people, beside appearances. Facebook allows us to connect with people. The Pro to this topic would be "but you can get stalked on Facebook" or "Facebook can be hacked and all your personal information can be revealed".

My response then change your password every month, or don't put your f****** personal information on there just the basics.

I don't think that people realize that we use stupid differences to divide ourselves as a people, I think that I've found out the similarities between others and I on Facebook, then on a regular day to day basis at my own school. And through Facebook I've realized that it is a very very small world, I love Facebook.

The founders of Facebook, do realize that there are risks to being on facebook; but they have come up with ways to secure facebook. For example:"every couple moths every user has to go through a facebook check, and create new password and information" (to block hacking). I think Facebook if used by the right people for the right people can be very beneficial.

The new feature, announced Thursday, makes Facebook a bit more like an online banking site. Users can identify certain "approved" computers and mobile phones that are allowed to access their Facebook accounts. If an unauthorized device tries to log in, the user will be notified of that activity by e-mail or text message, allowing them, in theory, to shut down an attack before any information is stolen.

I remember when I was in the seventh grade and I had some friends who I couldn't get in contact with (New Phone Number, and didn't check old email). but when I found them on Facebook by typing in there name(simple). I got to reconnect with them, I've connected with 3rd cousins that I haven't seen in forever. Yes to some Facebook might be addicting, but because some people don't know how to properly use Facebook we should shut down the whole site. NO.

Right now were writing about Peace and how to obtain this, my thesis is when you let go of little differences that divide us and start to bond, then we can obtain peace.  Facebook has to do something like this, when we can globally or districtly come together as a community we can help better ourselves. Think about it; No War.

Friday, August 27, 2010

Bullying at ASTI

I decided to quote Jessica Chen

There are a myriad of reason of why people would want to bully others. An example may be that someone is hurt and they felt mad so they want to bully someone to let out their madness. The last reason may be that the bully had been bullied before so they want to become a bully and protect them. An example may be that a boy was very smart and was bullied because of his smartness and one day he got mad and sick of getting bullied so he decided to bully others. In conclusion, there are many reasons why people would bully each other and I had also experienced getting bullied. This is something that would be in people’s everyday lives.
I agree with everything Jennifer said. She made alot of points that were great. She gives many examples, that prove her point, and my point that bullying is caused for many diffrent reasons. ASTI is a very small school and becuase its a very small school there shouldn't be any bullying going on. I think that ASTI's constitution was made becuase the students didn't want o feel, put down, or bulllied. So they wrote a very strict constitution to protect themselves and there classmates. I noticed when I was reading the constitution it was really only talkin about making sure bullies dont hurt people.

This constituion makes me think that there has been a lot bullying and disctrimantion at ASTI. I agree that everything Jessica said is true. The bullying that was at ASTI should not continue. The bullying mmust have been really bad if the students created a whole comstitution about it. Bullying is really wrong and it shouldn't be done, whether your doing it or your just participationg in it its still wrong. But alot of times people don't realize that there bullying another person, so alot of times they can't stop what they're doing if they dont know it.

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