Friday, May 14, 2010

Google

Google picasa works well for me. It is simple and convenient. I am able to upload many photos at once and sharing photos with people is as easy as entering their email adddy and clicking share.

I find it is an excellent alternative to sharing photos on FB as you are able to share them with a limited number of people.

Facebook

Points for FB:
  • helps you stay in touch
  • easy photo sharing
  • fun/funny

Points agains FB:

  • you can easily waste tons of time on it
  • it can (if you let it) become a replacement for meaningful social connections
  • if you do not moniter your privacy settings carefully, it is easy to release too much information about yourself

Wikipedia

It was not hard to find an article that needed editing. I chose the article on oral storytelling. To be frank, I could have spent hours editing it. It needs references and expansion. Due to time constraints, I limited my editing to a grammar correction. I was surprised to find that editing is an easy as it is. I had always assumed you would need an account to make changes to wikipedia articles.