Facebook Campaign Results

       

  I started this Facebook page with confidence. My first post was encouraging involvement with advice, arguments, comments, etc. I also started with a poll, that wasn't very successful. 

I feel like a reason this poll wasn't successful, was because of the poll app, it required a click and most people are uncomfortable leaving Facebook to participate. 

Next, I started sharing articles, news updates, and facts/stats of players and games. I wanted people to get involved, but have had a hard time catching attention and posting updates that were relevant to every person's fantasy football team. In order to catch more viewer's attention, I would have to constantly post new updates, hourly (if not more) to keep up with all the news and make it so people would become active with the page.

With 42 total Facebook likes, we only accumulated a few likes on each post, but often reached more people than our total page likes. Although, I did have a few people ask for advice on who to start or sit a certain week, and who they should draft.

My initial idea was to reach out to everyone I knew who had an interest in Fantasy football, and to get those people involved, and then hopefully share the page to get their Fantasy football opponents involved with the page. Like I stated earlier, the problem with the page was the frequency of posts. I feel like this is what doomed the page to be unsuccessful. 

I was very hopeful for the turnout of this page because Fantasy Football is extremely popular and it reaches a big audience. Sadly, the page was not successful due to the lack of constant posts and audience involvement.

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The Power Of Fake Media

     

       Just about everyday we come across a fake article online that has some catchy headline with an appealing story that just sucks us in. We don't immediately assume the story is fake because, who would do that?

       This On The Media article stood out to me because there have been an abundant amount of fake articles that have diseased Facebook. Fake articles spread like wildfire, especially on Facebook. Since more than half of Americans get their news from Facebook, it's very easy to believe the article our friends share and also take part of spreading 'the news.' Reading and believing fake articles alter our opinions on certain subjects especially current hot topics such as the election. 

             An article I grabbed from On The Media website simply states; "In truth, a Trump presidency is – in part – a reflection of the status and evolution of the media and tech industries in 2016." This proves to be extremely true. I think both candidates, Clinton and Trump used the power of social media to their advantage by 'exposing' each other of their faults. There were countless fake stories about one another that were later debunked. As stretched as each candidates accusations were, their followers and mainstream media just believed what they wanted to believe. There can be horrifying outcomes of false stories if it were to strike the wrong person. The false story of Clinton's "pizzagate" caught attention of a man who went to do his own investigation and although no one was hurt, he opened fire inside the restaurant, scaring many. This terrifies me because anyone- especially on Facebook, can falsify a "news article" or conspiracy theory about a business or even a person and it can anger someone to participating in a deadly act. 

       It frustrates me that Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook does not take more responsibility of Facebook's publishing policies. He did admit that the company could take more part in what gets shared on the news feed. Maybe hire actual people to fact check shared articles. Even though to some, a fake news article can be very obvious. But there are more who are completely oblivious to fabrication and that is what scares me most. 

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Syria and Immigration

             There is a very interesting article talking about how many states welcome Syrian refugees. I was surprised by how many opposing states there were. Some reasonings being that they are afraid of terrorists invading their state and America itself. After the attack in Paris, they were to believe the terrorists were refugees who were accepted. Many just don't want to take the chance. I am hopeful though, that the other accepting states see that these refugees are fleeing from the very terror that we are afraid of. Ultimately the decision is up to the President, forcing a lot of states to do anything they can to keep the refugees out themselves.

              Before this class I knew very little about Syria and their trouble with immigration. When I thought of Syria, the word 'terrorist' came to mind. Now, I do not believe that they are all terrorists, but, the media usually portrays them negatively. I appreciate documentaries for showing us the truth and to get different and important perspectives. I whole heartedly understand that fear is the factor of holding the states back from acceptance of refugees. It's a scary thought that we could potentially be letting in a terrorist with a plan. But I think of it this way, there are a lot of awful Americans who have contributed to acts of terror. Sometimes we just don't know who is going to do what. There is a thorough process that refugees have to go through just to be accepted, what else do they have to do just to be accepted into a place where they no longer are living in fear just like the luxury we receive? They are human, just like us who just want to make a life.

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Radicalization & Religion

                I have always thought that there were some shape or form of extremism laced with religion. When I think of radicalization and religion, I think of the Muslim religion. I have read many times about "peaceful Muslims." This never sat well with me because if every Muslim chose to go by their most sacred text, the Quran, this most definitely is not a peaceful religion. Of course, not all Muslims go by the Quran and just choose to believe bits and pieces of the texts, but saying as a whole, that this religion is peaceful.. just is not true.

                   I understand not to categorize people by acts of others. For example, claiming that all Muslims are ISIS, or capable of critical threats is unjust. There are many religions who don't take particular parts in sacred texts literal, but why wouldn't you if it's the religion you choose to believe and follow? Yes, for moral reasons but when hate for non Muslims is so unexplainably extreme, it's just a little hard to believe that they entirely practice peace. 

                    Now, I am not negatively speaking toward all Muslims, there are enormous amounts of Muslims who do not practice or choose to believe the verses. I just simply do not understand how someone chooses not to connect ISIS with the Muslim religion but just as "an extremist group." The most terrifying part of this to me, is the fact that what ISIS is doing is not radical to them. What they're doing and their beliefs is EXACTLY what the Quran states. The Quran acts as a 'guide' for Muslims. I chose to read more thoroughly through some of the verses and the insane hatred and violent acts are just disgusting. 

             In my opinion, this also goes for all religions. There's some sort of extremism within them, but anyone on the outside are the only ones who see it.

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    WI: Security and Privacy

             This topic was a big eye opener for me. I have always heard talk that the "NSA was watching our every move." It was never clear to me how serious this was. I have a strong feeling of an invasion of privacy with everything I do now. I have always thought we just had to be careful what we say/google/post etc on the internet but after reading these articles and videos, I never knew how important this really is.

              After watching the United States of Secrets video on frontline, it left me feeling uneasy that the government is doing things we really don't know about. In a way, I felt as though it's the right idea to have this type of heavy surveillance on citizens for the intent to watch for terrorist or wrongful activity. But, to an extent. Once they have enough information that a citizen is not a threat, the surveillance shouldn't continue on those citizens. This is a tough subject but my opinion is that having "The Program" is safer than no type of surveillance at all. I found it surprising that so many major companies such as AT&T, Facebook, etc were helping the government collect information on individuals. It was also interesting to read that the government wasn't lawfully allowed to seek through emails but, certain companies could for advertising purposes. Like Obama states, "We cannot have 100% security with 100% privacy."

               Catherine Crump on Ted Talk talked about how the police have cameras taking pictures of our license plates and cars to see where we go about during our daily lives. I feel so violated learning this information. This now makes me feel uneasy even leaving my house. If there were a crooked cop with bad intentions of stalking someone, it could be really deadly. 

                Even with the possibility of consequences, I think the use of technology to prevent criminals/terrorists around us could be a useful thing.