Digg News Source

In research for the question of, how is face book affecting the people using, I used the news source, Digg.com to research some news and findings.

The Digg website is unique in the way that it has many different kinds of news such as buisness, entertainment, life style, politics, science, sports, technology and world news. 

the website is nice because of the way it presents its's news, it has no commentators or anchors or biased people announcing it. It is based off of popular and significant news, that is more presented based on views by the people on the site.  

The site breaks it down on the main site as, top overall news, then top news for all topics and then "hot" stories on Digg.com   

Large numbers of people view the Digg news stories, and one thing about the kind of media that it reports is that instead of a head anchor or writer bias, the overall opinion and meaning of the article presented  and be commented on by many different people. Along with comments that can be rated, to give the user and idea of whose comments sum up and give the best idea of the article.

For my research on face book, I simply searched "face book" in the search tool, and Digg gives me every article it's given on it, whether relevant to my research or not, it filters it out.

In my research I found many different commentaries and news sources on different effects that face book has on security, personalization and businesses. One nice piece of info that I learned about face book from a video lecture from author David Kirkpatrick is that it gives every user a 'broadcast platform" that being friends with someone subscribes information to a "significantly large number of friends" based on activity with one another.

Another interesting find that I found from research on Digg from a news article is about a man named Phil Wong, in which he emphasizes that "face book records every clock you make".  knowing this it turns out that face book knows you're information and friends just as well if not better than you know it you're self.

from an actual face book employee, he states himself that with recording personal information about how face book knows who you're friends are that "No, it’s more than just that. It’s also messages, file posts, photos you’re tagged in with them, as well as your viewing of their profile and all of that. Essentially, we judge how good of a friend they are to you.

Overall I will continue researching this kind of research and the kinds off effects that people have on face book, and facebook have on people.Digg.com is a good news and information source, but I will need to find more to conclude and have logical data.