Internet or alcohol ? Consume with moderation !

More and more people used Internet a lot. It’s like video games or television. Teenagers spend a lot of time using new technologies. It exists different levels of addiction.
A psychologist can help you to know if you are cyber addicted by answering to some questions.
If you are all day long connected on Internet, if you speak a lot of time with internet users, if you consume a lot on stores websites, maybe you have an addiction.

- Being a "no-life" person
In current language, cyber addicted can be called « no life ». It’s the case of people who are connected a lot on Internet but disconnected of real world.
We can understand that it’s a means of escaping from a hard reality in our life. It’s also a means to struggle against loneliness. Some psychologits say that it's a means of accepting a new hard reality. In other words, the Internet can be a tool used to accept a hard transition in your life. But finally, you are more alone in this case. It's paradoxical. It’s really a witness of a psychologic problem.

A survey explained that cyber addicted spent 35 hours a week on Internet, maybe more.
Cyber addiction provokes nervous breakdowns.

Being the heroe or the victim of "happy slapping"

It can be amazing to speak about « violence » on Internet. Indeed, the word violence can have a physical dimension.

- "Happy slapping" : a kind a violence on Internet
In fact, we also speak about violence on Internet. We can take the example of « happy slapping». This is a new phenomenom which exists because of new technologies. It means that some people (in general teenagers) film violence they do on people in real life. After they have created the film with their mobile phones, they broadcast the images on Internet, on their blog for instance. Some psychologues analyze this phenomenon saying that thanks to the camera, people don’t hace really the impression to do something illegal. But I think there is a part of « sight » in this case. It means that people want to exhib what they are able to do.

- Being someone else
This is not the only one example. As a matter of fact, it exists other example. If we want to meet people thanks to chatrooms, we can have bad experiences. I talked about « identity theft ». In fact, some people use other identities in order to meet boys and girls and they have violence on them. In 2007, a young boy met a man which was about 50. He thought it was 25 years old. This man rape the young boy, in his house.

Be careful…an author said « Internet is like a street ». You can meet unbalanced people.

Are you sure it's really you ?

There is another danger on Internet : Identity theft.
This is a phenomenon which appearead on Internet above all on stores websites. It’s also called « hackers ».

It means that some internet users take an identity of antoher person. In general, they take the name, the number account, keywords…
This is illegal.

In 2006, a woman was sentenced because she used the internet account of one of her friend, on Meetic, the Internet meeting website. She was accused to be « violent » that’s why, they had to pay for this « crime », about 10 000 euros. In fact, shed used her identity, but she broadcated a wrong image of her collegue on Internet, saying that she was a
« bitch ».

I talked about stores websites. Some people have the possibility to use our identity and bank account when we buy something on Internet. But, these kind of websites have changed their process. As a matter of fact, when we buy something on Internet with our credit card, we have to give the proof that we are the persons who did purchases. In fact, we have to send a letter with our credit car number, a photocopy of our identity card. This is used to struggle against frauds.

Protect your computer !

Internet represents a real benefit in our professionnal and private lives. Yet, this virtual world can have a lot of dangers, like in real life.
More and more cybercrimes are listed on the Web.

First we have to define the word of « cybercrime ». Cybercrime is a kind of criminal activity done using computers and the Internet. For example, it’s downloading illegal music files to stealing millions of dollars from online bank accounts. Cybercrime also includes non-monetary offenses, as for example, creating and distributing viruses on computers or posting confidential information on the Internet. This concept was invented in 1990.

We can quote many examples of cybercriminalité. Some days ago, a guy was on the bank account of Nicolas Sarkozy on the Internet. This is a great example.
For the moment, the problem is that it exists any legislation to punish cybercrimnality. You can find more explanations about this phenomenon on this website :
http://www.interieur.gouv.fr/sections/a_votre_service/votre_securite/internet/cybercriminalite/view

It's now or never : put your gloss on your lips !

In our lives we practice some common acts but sometimes we don't know how to do something. For example, when we fall in love of someone, we have to kiss. In fact, we have to be comfortable doing it.
Some people are really bad at kissing. So, it's now or never to improve your technics.

This is an an instructable on how to kiss. We can dinstiguished five steps.
Firstly, the "pre-kiss". It's the most difficult part. You have to know if your partner is ready to kiss you. It's really difficult but you can know by watching his eyes. It's a question of feelings, expressions.
! BE CAREFUL TO YOUR BREATH OF COURSE !

The second step is the one of the "kiss practice". It means you can have some trainings face to a mirror. You can kiss yourself. Don"'t be afraid, it's not a kind of narcissism. It's a means of getting out your nervousness.

Then, you enter really in the target of your objective : "the kiss". After having some trainings, you have to remember them to reach you goal : beeing a "superkisser".

Contrary to what you think, after this part it's not finished. In fact don't forget the "post kiss" step ! If you enjoyed the kiss, you have to show to your partner that you liked it by smiling for example. In other words, keep contact with your partner.

Don't forget the "Couet methode" : you have to repeat you that you are a winner and it will works !

"Me as many persons" - My "EDWIGE" movie

! ADULTS TO 70 YEARS FORBIDDEN TO WATCH !*
*risk of heart attack

This is a portrait of me. I just wanted to create a movie about my personnality and my goals, my life. I know that this movie cannot be considered as really serious, but I just wanted to have fun. Yet, it is me, with my different faces.
A kind of joke...But what's the price of this joke ?
I just want to say that now, my name is "EDWIGE" in Celsa school :)

Financial crisis, an analysis

This is a debate between Nadia and I about new media and financial crisis.
Just a message : ! WARNING ! another communication school has just used this video. With Nadia, we claim our rights. You have to pay us :) Sorry, this is the price of having "being famous for 15 minutes"...

When Google rings

Recently, Google has launched an application to compete with the I-phone. I have a new 3G phone, but I think I’ll don’t download it. In fact, I only use my phone to call and to send SMS messages, not to my active members like Obama, but to my friends.

Moreover, I don’t know really why I bought a 3G phone because I don’t use any other application! I think it’s just a means to gather to a community of phones, to say “I am a geek, I really know new technologies”.

“Google Phone” is a big innovation. It will be send in October 22nd 2008 in USA. This application permits having word or excel on our phone. We could have access to MP3 AMAZON songs.

Free softwares

Firefox is a big innovation on the web. What is Firefox ? Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla application. Firefox had 19.46% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of September 2008, making it the second-most popular browser in current use worldwide, after Internet Explorer.

Bip ! You have a new message

New technologies are more and more used in presidential campaigns. It was the case in France in 2007 campaign. And, it is the case in USA. We can take the example of Obama Campaign.

First, we have to remember the facts. Obama has been using the internet extensively in his campaign. Recently he has used SMS messages to make announcements. His goal was to send SMS to his active members. In theses SMS messages, he told them his choice about his vice-president. The problem was that newspapers had broadcast the news before he sent these messages. www.cellular-news.com/story/24462.php

Indeed, the first critic I can do is that in this case it was a failure because the news was broadcast before his messages. If we analyze more the situation, we can notice that using new technologies in presidential campaign is a big communication strategy. As a matter of fact, it’s a means to create proximity with active members and electors. Remember: “proximity” was really the reference word in French campaign in 2007. “Be near you electors” was a kind of ideology, a means to think about electors worries.

Moreover, it’s also the case with Internet. It’s a means to be near electors. First it permits creating forums. It gives the illusion that people can be active in the campaign thanks to participation. It is what we call “transparency strategy”. It means we use new technologies to give the impression that we are near known-people, to give the impression that we can be active, to give the impression that all is simple, all is true…

Finally, I think that using new technologies are really a good means to create relationships with electors. It’s a good strategy because we can really give the impression that we are near people’s worries. It’s the symbol of “participative democracy”. It’s a new ideology in our societies.
Yet, even if we can consider that as an illusion, we cannot imagine a presidential campaign without internet websites. It’s a means to be credible.

My private life become public life

Internet can be used for our professional life, private life. This is two different means to have an access to e-culture. In the private life “sphere” we have the possibility to speak about our experiences. This is what I’ll do in this post.

I have no really experiences with e-culture in my little professional life contrary to my personal life. Above all, I use Internet to get in touch with people. I think it’s a kind of social e-culture. In fact, I spend a lot of time on different “tchats” to speak with people in order to create debates or only to meet them. Sometimes, we talk about current topics, or about our private lives.

These social networks have advantages. The most important it’s than we can exchange a lot of things. I mean, when you get in touch with another person is that e-culture have no limits. In other words, we can exchange all what we find on Internet with each other (videos, texts, pictures, opinions…)

Nevertheless, I use Internet to meet people even if I exchange a lot of things with them. My goal is to improve my relationships. For example, I meet boys and girls. It was the case last week-end. After a lot of meetings, I realized that relations with people are completely redefined. In really life, not on internet, when we meet people, we can know them. With Internet, the problem is that even if we speak on MSN with the person, when we meet him, we realize that we don’t really know him.