she say what? » Current News http://shesaywhat.com Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:01:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 What are we going to do with(out) social media? http://shesaywhat.com/180/without-social-media/ http://shesaywhat.com/180/without-social-media/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:07:04 +0000 Anna G. http://shesaywhat.com/?p=180 Fail Whale!Yesterday’s large scale DDoS attacks were certainly annoying. Between Twitter, LiveJournal and Facebook being down, it was hard to go through my day with any real normalcy. Like everyone else, I was left incommunicado. After my initial annoyance, I got to thinking: What happens when we only have the internet to turn to for our news?

As more and more people turn to social media for instant news, it makes it easier for malicious people to not only infect the stream with falsehoods, as we saw/still see with the Iran Election, but to completely block people from getting to the information in the first place. I don’t have any good solutions to this problem, but it is obviously something we should all be talking about a lot more.

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