Bad Influences

Facebook's great, dont get me wrong, but lately i have been hating it just a teeny bit.

Two main reasons really;

1) It dominates my life, its been said by everyone and although i said i would changed, surprise

 surprise, i haven't. Addicted.

2) The news recently "Facebook killer sentenced to life in prison". A man names Wayne

Forrester was sentenced to life in prison at the old Bailey on the 18th October, due to the fact that he felt devestated and humiliated when his wife changed her profile to "single" on the networking site only four days after he moved out of their marital home. Emma Forrester was stabbed to death in a violent attack with a meat cleaver and a kitchen knife in the early hours of February 18th. After the couple decided about their split, Emma left their marital home and left. Four days later she posted messages on Facebook telling everyone that she had left her husband and was looking to meet other men. Understandably, this is true, she rightly changed her relationship status, no harm in doing that...she thought.

He felt devestated about how quickly she had changed her status and was humiliated about what she had done to him.

The day before the murder took place, Forrester rang Emma's parents to complain about her Facebook entry which, he said made her "look like a fool". Later, Emma rang her parents telling them she was going to bed, and bolting the front door.

He beat her, tore out her hair, and repeatedly stabbed her in the head and neck.

Neighbours were woken up by her screams. They found him sitting outside the house covered in blood, then called the police.

Not only is this story shocking beyond belief, but extremely worrying. 

If Facebook did not exist, this poor woman would still be alive. The man who could do this must care, so much about what happens on Facebook, that he can now read into every detail. When all it was was simply an innocent relationship status change, that turned into a jealous death. I have posted previous blogs about how bad Facebook is getting, but i think this proves that Facebook is no longer a social networking site, but a vicious, and upsetting reason for distress and harm. 

Media diary, 2nd October - 7th October

Don't worry Mr V.S, i have been keeping track!

2/10/08

Well, had a really boring day today media wise, nothing but the good old T.V, was practically forced to watch it when babysitting, as there is simply nothing interesting to do! Nothing particularly interesting was on, except Dana - the 8 year old annorexic. We were told to watch this for Sociology, and i really enjoyed it. I couldnt help but ask myself why was this 8 year old girl obsessed with being skinny? Was it to do with the media and the stereotypical "skinny" image that we are being faced with everyday on TV and magazines?

3/10/08

Watched a powerpoint presentation in Business Studies today (im amazed at how many minutes of the lessons teachers choose to teach us via the media!)

Watched Sex and the City in the evening, listened to some music after school with Susie, while she did a bit of dancing. Picture to prove it! 

3/10/08

Had to watch my brother play football for an hour and a half, whilst standing in the cold! Luckily i had my iPod with me, kept me from going insane! Good songs at the moment include: Sex on fire - Kings of Leon

Cookie Jar - Gym Class Heros

Breathe Me - Sia 

4/10/08

House music practice..didn't get very far! House song: Shine - Take That

I used to like the song...until i heard us singing it! 

Rest of the day spent doing homework, which included Facebook and Msn.

iTunes was playing constantly, new good song: Paper Planes - M.I.A, purely due to C.K's dancing in Media Studies.

5/10/08

Had to make our own movies in Media Studies, didnt go as well as hoped!

It is actually surprisingly tricky to take just a simple shot!

Didnt get much work after school, just as well seeing as i babysat in the evening, not much on T.V, the people i babysat for only had channels 1-5! Hell when you're used to having the thousands of channels available on Sky! :(

6/10/08

The usual really, listened to iPod when walking from boys school to shootersway, made the walk go a lot quicker!

Facebook, MySpace (less and less now, Facebook is becoming more popular!), Msn, iTunes.

7/10/08

English - Othello

7pm - 11 pm Media Diary, Media Homework, Facebook and Msn

Sony

Sony has approximately 95 companies, including;

Sony Broadband Entertainment Inc.

*     Sony Electronics

*     Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications

*     Sony Pictures Inc

 

Sony was originally called Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Company); Sony’s roots go back over half a centaury to 1946 when Masru Ibuka and Akio Morita founded it. Ibuka and Morita were global thinkers, they realised the need for a global brand, which crossed cultural, and language borders in order to expand the business in the US and later in Europe. Although the name of the company was not officially changed to Sony Corporation until 1958, the first Sony branded product was the TR-55 transistor radio, which went on sale in 1955.

Sony’s UK history began in 1968 when Sony UK was founded in London. Six years later Sony became the first major Japanese company to open a factory in the UK.

Sony was awarded the prestigious Queen’s Award for Export on four occasions throughout the 80’s and 90’s.

 

Sony has many companies, and I have chosen two to talk about.

My first one is Sony Ericsson.

Everyone’s heard of them, its impossible not to. They’re everywhere. People on the streets, for example according to statistics, 1 in 4 phones are a Sony Ericsson. No wonder they have adverts everywhere. They’re catchy and colourful, directed at youths, mainly. Sony Ericsson was founded in 2001. The name officially came from the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation, and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to make mobile phones, put the two together and you get Sony Ericsson. They decided to reach out onto this level because they believed it could be a new market niche, and combined the two expertises to create a successful mobile phones company. The main rivals for Sony Ericsson are mainly Motorola, however when LG brought out the LG Viewety, Sony Ericsson’s market share dropped from 9.4% to 7.9%. One of the reasons Sony Ericsson has been so popular, is probably because it knows what their customers want. They don’t want to be walking along holding a iPod in one hand and a phone in the other, Sony Ericsson was quick to spot this and created a Walkman phone in 2005.

Sony Playstation

 

The Playstation was first introduced in 1995, and was Sony’s first half a billion dollar video game industry. In 1998, the Playstation was named the best selling product in Sony’s entire corporation. Everyone has heard of the Playstation, again, its so hard not too. 2 in 5 14-17year-old boy has a Playstation. These are pretty high statistics. Since launching, Sony Playstation has only grown in numbers, and products. They have done from Playstation, Playstation 2, Slimeline Playstation 2, Playstation Portable then finally Playstation.

Facebook Anonymous

I knew it was about time to write a new post. 

And i tried to think of something REALLY interesting to write...

Eventually i came up with "whats WRONG with the media"

There are plenty of reasons for good things about the media, spreading news etc..

But the media can also have bad and un-desired effects too.

We can never say no to a good TV programme, whatever it may be. But when do we know when to say 'enough'?

Reading through fellow classmates Media Diaries, i was amazed to see the hours that they spend using the media. Is this time necessary, or are we discarding other things for the media?

Facebook, starts of with a simple exploration of your friends on the site and suddenly you're logging in every half an hour to see if any of your friends have made updates, changed relationship status, or posted new videos, without even realising it. and soon a simple social networking account slowly turns into a media addiction.

Sure, Facebook is great, its cheaper than sending a text, quicker and more fun. But i often find myself sitting on Facebook, bored. Getting off Facebook doesn't seem to enter my mind. I just wait for it to get interesting again. 

Recently ive found myself realising that Facebook, is actually controlling me. 

Depressing, yes?

Why am i so obsessed with sitting there, until something happens, when i could be downstairs, talking to my Mum, Dad, Sister or Brother. Who, would actually be more interesting!

I am still trying to work out why it is so obsessive, is it the news feeds? The down right annoying facebook chat? The nosiness of it all? Or simply that its something to do?

I'm sure many of my class may have tweeked their media diaries, to make themselves look less of a Facebook addict. But they know what i'm talking about.