domingo, 9 de septiembre de 2012



and achieve the dreams?

there is hardly a person who does not have dreams. I can assure you all that we have and at some stage of our lives we get or achieve. But the hardest thing is to know and follow them if you're not really motivated to pursue them. all must be clear about what we want and what we are about to pursue. the saddest thing is when a dream dies, and do nothing to follow motivating to reach it. if we are here to pursue our dreams and to be happy, I think we should all focus to follow at any cost, we should not matter what people think about them because they do not feel what we, if we love that dream we must follow no matter what.
relate many university courses or work like a dream, and good, but if at some point in our lives we can not study what you want or dream fails, we should not torture us with this failure, we must take more strength to go on, and take that failure as a new learning :)
no matter what, you should follow your dreams and be completely happy with them; D
not expect new year to have purposes, surround them every day. just keep holding on :)

miércoles, 5 de septiembre de 2012

Did you know?




  • For teenagers, many can agree that music is incredibly important in their lives.. 60 per cent of 16 to 24 years old would rather go without sex than music for a week.Music has been affecting teenagers greatly, in terms of behavior and cognition.
  • A point with teens and music, is the issue of how they obtain it. When ten years ago, teenagers would be found  at a local record store, now, many sit in front of a computer screen. On average, 43 per cent of music owned by ages 15 to 24 years old has not been paid for. 70 per cent of 15 to 24 years old do not feel guilty for illegally downloading music  on the internet. However, 42 per cent of the age group would want respect for their music and creative freedom above everything else if they qere a big celebrity. Some common download sites where teenagers get their music for free are: Lime Wire, Frost Wire, BearShare, online forums and message boards.


  • The most commonly used device  to listen tomusic is the iPod or mp3 players. 

  •   An issue affecting teens with these players and music is the volume factor, especially with the tiny earbuds that come cheaply. Loud Music can potentially damage hair cells in the inner ear that convert vibrationsinto electrical signals that the brain interprets as sound. Now, with loner battery lives, mp3 players and iPods encourage users to listen for longer periods of time then older portable devices.
  • Music includes many things that teenagers can relateto, as well as understand.On the other hand, music can be linked with negative effects, such as drugs and violence. Overall, music is very influential upon teenagers.


Pop!

Pop music (a term that originally derives from an abbreviation of "popular" is a genre of popular music which originated in its modern form in the 1950s, deriving from rock and roll. The terms popular music and pop music are often used interchangeably, even though the former is a description of music which is popular (and can include any style), whilst the latter is a specific genre containing qualities of mass appeal.




As a genre, pop music is very eclectic, often borrowing elements from other styles including urban, dance, rock, latin and country; nonetheless, there are core elements wich define pop. Such include generally short-to-medium length songs, written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), as well as the common employment of repeated choruses, melodic tunes and catchy hooks.




So called "pure pop" music, such as power pop, features all these elements, utilising electric guitars, drums and bass for  instrumentation; in the case of such music, the main goal is ususally that being pleasurable to listen to, rather than having much artistic depth. Pop music is generally thought of as a genre which is commercially recorded and desires to have a mass audience appeal.





   
  

lunes, 3 de septiembre de 2012

YOUTUBE

What is youtube?

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos.
Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, the BBC, VEVO, Hulu, and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program. Unregistered users can watch videos, while registered users can upload an unlimited number of videos. Videos considered to contain potentially offensive content are available only to registered users at least 18 years old. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion, and now operates as a subsidiary of Google.

TWITTER

What is twitter?


Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets".

Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, with additional servers and offices in New York City, Boston, and San Antonio.
Twitter has been cited as an important factor in the Arab Spring and other political protests

It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million active users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. Since its launch, Twitter has become one of the top 10 most visited websites on the Internet, and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet. Unregistered users can read tweets, while registered users can post tweets through the website interface, SMS, or a range of apps for mobile devices.


FACEBOOK

What is facebook?

Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook, Inc.[As of June 2012, Facebook has over 955 million active users, more than half of them using Facebook on a mobile device. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as "People From Work" or "Close Friends". The name of the service stems from the colloquial name for the book given to students at the start of the academic year by some university administrations in the United States to help students get to know each other. Facebook allows any users who declare themselves to be at least 13 years old to become registered users of the site.
Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities before opening to high school students, and eventually to anyone aged 13 and over. However, according to a May 2011 Consumer Reports survey, there are 7.5 million children under 13 with accounts and 5 million under 10, violating the site's terms of service.

A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social networking service by worldwide monthly active users. Entertainment Weeklyincluded the site on its end-of-the-decade "best-of" list, saying, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook? Critics, such as Facebook Detox, state that Facebook has turned into a national obsession in the United States, resulting in vast amounts of time lost and encouraging narcissism. Quantcast estimates Facebook has 138.9 million monthly unique U.S. visitors in May 2011. According to Social Media Today, in April 2010 an estimated 41.6% of the U.S. population had a Facebook account. Nevertheless, Facebook's market growth started to stall in some regions, with the site losing 7 million active users in the United States and Canada in May 2011.

SOCIAL NETWORKS


A social network is a social structure made up of a set of actors (such as individuals or organizations) and the dyadic ties between these actors. The social network perspective provides a clear way of analyzing the structure of whole social entities. The study of these structures uses social network analysis to identify local and global patterns, locate influential entities, and examine network dynamics.
Social networks and the analysis of them is an inherently interdisciplinary academic field which emerged from social psychology, sociology, statistics, and graph theory.Georg Simmel authored early structural theories in sociology emphasizing the dynamics of triads and "web of group affiliations. Jacob Moreno is credited with developing the first sociograms in the 1930s to study interpersonal relationships. These approaches were mathematically formalized in the 1950s and theories and methods of social networks became pervasive in the social and behavioral sciences by the 1980s. Social network analysis is now one of the major paradigms in contemporary sociology, and is also employed in a number of other social and formal sciences. Together with other complex networks, it forms part of the nascent field of network science.