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Currently, people use Intelligent Personal Assistants and Smart Speakers
to perform many tasks like ordering stuff online and turning music on. In the future, people might not need to use keyboards and laptops instead everything will be voice controlled. Also, it is possible that people will control smart home with smart speakers. The security system will also be advanced as everything is controlled by voice. Therefore, some features of social media platforms will be changed with smart technology.

P2P

File sharing is the process of transmitting files from one computer to another by using Internet or a network.

P2P file sharing is also called peep-to-peer file sharing, is the distribution and sharing files using P2P networking technology.

 One example of P2P file sharing is Bittorrent software that allows users to download music and videos to their computer (Thompson, The Bittorent Effect). Other examples are eMule, LimeWire, or iMule.

Privacy

            People are anxious about privacy and confidential issues while they rely significantly on new media. Privacy and social media platforms are interconnected each other as people expose about personal information to the public. Today, people reveal about their birthdays, phone numbers, and other background information on social media unnecessarily. Those exposures may lead to identity theft, and other forms of attacks that invade their privacy. Recently, Facebook is targeted with privacy and confidential concerns as companies can collect private information for marketing purposes. Therefore, individuals should aware of privacy issues and should manage their social networking sites secured as there are options to keep the privacy safe. 

Creativity and New Media

        Even though I am not talented in art and design, new media technologies like mobile applications help me in some creations. For this blog, I created an avatar by using an app called Bitmoji as there are many Avatar styles I can choose and it is easy to be used. Here are the photos of me and my avatar.

Creativity

         New media has brought best out of people's creative skills. According to the CNN's article 1+1+1=1 by Frere-Jones, the new digital media has led people like Vidler, Kerr, and Brown to create hit music mash ups. Their creativity persuade people to love and embrace different types of music. Obviously, the accessibility of new digital is not only for the musicians but also for everyone, who wants to be creative and who are creative. Technologies like mobile applications and software foster people to be more creative and skillful.

Modeling Reality with Virtual Worlds

          I learned about some purposes of the Virtual reality for the first time, when I was a student ambassador for a Technology launch in Pennsylvania. Moreover, there was a survey about 3D virutal glass in my Business class so that all the people in the class were able to try on that eyewear, which functions as a display device. I was able to see many different projected environment like space, desert, and etc., and felt like I was actually there. Virtual worlds can be used in many different ways and can be beneficial for many purposes. Like Knafo describes in the article "In room 100, It's Side and Nancy All over Again", 3D virtual world called Second Life was able to recreate the famous Chelsea Hotel with old photographs even though the hotel was renovated in recent years. Also, Tutton mentions about the creating a tool that allows virtual meetings and effective collaboration in businesses (CNN).

         The pros would be VR's ability to break down the boundaries imposed on us. People now can explore more about the things that they were not able to see or learn before with the help of virtual worlds. It is not just on science movies like before. The cons would be the security issues for the people and society as everyone can see or learn things that they were able to see before. Future world would rely on technology even more than today. With advanced virtual worlds, I think there will not be any barriers and boundaries for the differences. 

Social New Working Site

         I have been using Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, and Snapchat for many purposes. Facebook has been the main source for recent news and connecting with family and friends. Facebook is the best medium for connecting people from friends from different countries. It allows to post not only pictures and videos but also posts about personal feelings so that people can share about their opinions and feelings easily on Facebook.
          For me, I usually use Youtube for accessing MTV, talk shows, and any other types of videos. For example, if you are learning how to play guitar, you can just find a video easily on Youtube. Basically, I can just find the videos that I want to watch and leave a comment if I want to share about my opinion on the video. I would say Instagram is neat and enjoyable even for a break while working. It does not have a long opinionated passage posts like on Facebook. Moreover, people often post their professional like photos, which are really cool and you can see fashion trends when you go through the posts on Instagram.
         I started using Snapchat when I came to the U.S. as many of American friends use it. What impressive about Snapchat is that people just post a temporary story on it and share it to their friends. They use to share every enjoyable or fun moment of their time to each friend.