Facebook - the cause for increasing jealousy?

Recently I read an interesting article about how Facebook influences jealousy between relationship partners. It was published on Vizita.si .

It says that Amy Muise from university in Canada discovered several changes in relationships due to Facebook. She thinks that:

- Facebook creates addiction, once you start using it you keep coming back.

- More time you spent on Facebook, more jealous and suspicious you get.

- The same goes for your partner, especially, if you have ex girlfriends/boyfriends among Facebook friends. Amy Muise advices you to stop using Facebook in order to minimise your jealousy.

- She thinks catching a cheating partner can be way easier with Facebook, because you can spy on your partner's profile without his awareness.

I have to say I am somewhat sceptical about these statements. Does anyone feel more jealous because his relationship partner has a Facebook account? Or is this only an excuse for people who are over possessive anyway?

Using Evernote

One of my desires and expectations about the New media and society class, was to get familiar with new programs, applications and other tools which make our life easier (e.g. help with writing, editing, communicating, collaborating, finding new information, etc.).

Today, I would like to introduce my experience with trying out an application called Evernote (www.evernote.com). Firstly, It is important to stress out that Evernote is not an application for academic writing. However, it has some advantages and disadvantages I am going to describe in this post.

I found Evernote easy to register, it is free and very simple to use. Design is plain and pleasant. Functions as font types, font size, alignment and other basic tools are visible and easily accessible. However, they are very basic. There are only 7 font types available and font size is not numbered, but it is described as small, medium, large and it is really hard to know which description matches which font size. No spell check is possible, as well as word count, and it has no undo button.

Its main advantages are: a document is accessible from anywhere (from any computer that has the Internet), and the documents are really easy to find (keywords).

New media - a technological or a socio-cultural evolution?

I one of the first articles I have read on new media in society, authors were questioning themselves whether the new media are a social phenomenon or a technological change? Where is the boundary? Is there even one, or is it all interdependent? Do we have a revolution or is it just an evolution?

It is interesting that the articles I have read were written in 1999 by well-know authors Roger Silverstone and Sonia Livingston. Both authors recognized the interdependence between society and technology. With my background in economics, especially in marketing, I connected their perspective with my opinion. I believe most organizations in the market, especially successful ones, are market oriented. Therefore organizations seek to satisfy unfulfilled needs in the market. Taking this even further, from this concept it is clear that a change is driven mostly by the society. I do agree that change is interdependent. There is nothing without innovation. Organizations have to develop their technology all the time, in a way that they can offer a superior product or service for satisfying unserved needs in the market. Overall, the change is driven by both, the society and organizations (technology).

Do we have a revolution? I don't think so. Socio-cultural trends are one of the slowest changing macro trends in the market. If most organizations are market-oriented, that means that we have an evolution and not a revolution.

Introduction

Welcome to my blog, established for the New media and society class. At this point I would like to give you some information about my background and my interests.

I graduated in 2009 from the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana and from Queen’s University (Queen’s School of Business, Canada), where I spent one year on exchange. Since 2005 I have been working as an entrepreneur in show business industry, in the last year mostly focusing on consulting. With this course, I am hoping to get a better insight into how to use online tools for finding valuable information (digital libraries, literature resources) and to understand opportunities and technology for online communications.

In the era of globalization, the Internet offers many options for retrieving information, connecting with interesting people, and I would like to be aware of those options. So far I have experience with online tools such as: social networking sites (LinkedIn, Facebook), peer-to-peer communication (Moodle, Google groups), and some online literature resources. There are more and more tools available and it is hard to explore all of them. I am hoping to get an idea of what tolls are available and which of them are the most useful for my needs.

I am looking forward sharing my thoughts with you!