How Facebook Helps People with Disabilities

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Social networking sites have been not only an aid but also an unadorned way on how people can communicate with their colleagues, meet new people and socialize with them through networking sites—taking Facebook as a popular example. It is an advantage for those people who has disabilities to do things that normal person can! The online medium can allow friendships to blossom in an environment where limitations are downplayed and there’s less opportunity for stigma. Meanwhile communicating via the Web can offer a self-esteem boost for a population that often falls victim to isolation.

 

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Instagram changes terms!!

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Instagrams new changes:

  • Nothing has changed about your photos’ ownership or who can see them.
  • Our updated privacy policy helps Instagram function more easily as part of Facebook by being able to share info between the two groups. This means we can do things like fight spam more effectively, detect system and reliability problems more quickly, and build better features for everyone by understanding how Instagram is used.
  • Our updated terms of service help protect you, and prevent spam and abuse as we grow

Many users are scared to continue using instagram with the new changes they are making. I find it scary that they can sell or share any of your photos without your consent. Many people felt the same way I did because instagram decided to change its terms back to its original terms.

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To circumcise or not

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Of course most people feel circumcision is a personal preference some do it for religion, health, and because its whats always been known to be best. Routine circumcision is usually performed during the first 10 days (often within the first 48 hours), either in the hospital or, for some religious ritual circumcisions, at home.  But is it really best?  Lets lay out some pros and cons that most people are not aware of. 

Pros:

Circumcision may result in a lower incidence of sexually transmitted diseases and may reduce HIV transmission.

May lower the risk for cancer of the cervix in sexual partners.

Decreases the risk of urinary tract infection.

Prevents chlamydia infections and subsequent pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy and infertility.

Circumcision improves sexual function and creativity.

Cons:

Most of the time, circumcision is not medically necessary.

Loss of sensation

The tissue of the foreskin is richly supplied with blood vessels and contains a lot of nerves.

Studies have shown that infants feed less often after being circumcized, which in turn can lead to failure to breastfeed.

The pain that newborn infants experience is similar or greater than that experienced by adult subjects.

I hope this list of pros and cons of circumcision has been informative and I believe that you should now have all the elements necessary to make an informed decision. When making the ultimate decision “to cut or not to cut”, I believe that the rights of the child should be taken into account. A person should have a say so in what is done to their body however since legally it is the parents choice you choose what you think is best for your child!

Addicted To Technology

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Technology is a huge addiction to many people. Truth is some of these addictions can be just like drug addiction. Some people claim to have severe withdraws like itching. With technology doing nothing but advancing its kind of hard not to become dependent on it. You need a smart phone and computer for many jobs and schooling.

Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest are a easy to keep up with friends, family, and co workers without having to contact them directly.  Addiction to technology will do nothing but increase because so many things do rely on technology that its almost impossible to not get addicted.

 

 

Because people have became so reliant on technology people can even become depressed if they have no technology for more than 24 hours.  To think back in the day no one had cell phones, computers, etc and now its a daily even hourly thing to use technology. For most people technology is part of who they are.

Technology and how it effects children.

Many people think that technology actually helps children however, this is not always the case. Although technology can be good for learning purposes it is overused. A study as ages 12 through 17 — send 50 or more text messages a day and that one third send more than 100 a day. Even though younger children are very good with the tech skills, they lack the face-to-face human contact skills. Some children use the Internet to expand their knowledge of other kinds of people and places, and others use the Internet to really bore down and make their world smaller and smaller. Lose of communication is the biggest issue.

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What Can Parents Do?

Take television out of their room, monitoring time spent on electronics, parental control but most importantly making sure its isnt becoming an addiction or effecting their health or communication skills. “Parental control technology” describes a wide variety of software and hardware solutions that parents and caregivers can use to restrict the content their children can access and the people they can communicate with. It’s impossible to say how many pedophiles there are lurking on the internet so you should talk to your kids often about safety on the internet like never giving personal information or talking to someone they have never met. Many children come up missing because of this so its VERY important to stress this and monitor what they do online.

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