Our Class Wiki - So Far

Well I haven't been able to work on the our class wiki page. However, I am interested on Religion categories and how it is affecting the religion such as Buddhist monks. From the research I came to learn that monk should be allowed to use the cell phones; not only the cell phone but they are not allowed to use any of the technological gadgets which may create negative effects on their mind and excite envy. Also, in the technology categories, I didn't see any updates on the Nokia smartphone. So I would like to add some of the features from Nokia which influence the social media. Other than that I enjoy wiki page more and learn many things that not could be possible.

P2P

File sharing simply means sharing computer data and information through some network. File sharing allows the people to use the same file to read or view it, write it or modify it, copy it or print it. P2P file sharing is the process of sharing files such books, notes, movies, games, etc. in a safe way so that third party will not be able to see or access to the files.It is basically in most of social applications such as Skype, Viber, WhatsApp, Napster, Dropbox, etc. P2P is such an architecture the shared filed will remain only between the sender and recipient. Facebook uses Pipe for the P2P connection where neither Facebook nor Pipe will be able to access on the contest of the file. If the recipient is offline then the file which was sent will be stored for 5 days before being removed from the system. 

As for its safe and secure ability, there are more use of P2P connections. Lending Club and Prosper are two loan companies who uses P2P connections and helping the communities providing lower interest rate loans. According to the reading, in 2012, Lending club facilitated about $800 millions in loan and about $2 billions in 2013. There are many criteria while filing for the loan in the bank. However, Lending Club have less criteria and the process is faster than banks. Lending Club investors put up their money to fund the loans and they are ranked according to the risk and rate of return also depends on the risk.

In conclusion, we all share files in a way with each other. However, we wanted it to be safe and secure. This is really helped by the P2P file sharing connection. Not only it helped in sharing files but also in helping the community. Due to this connections it helped the peers to find the easier way to borrow loans with lower interest rate and mostly, it is helping the small investors to make some profit out of their money.

Privacy & Confidentiality

Privacy and confidentiality is the major concern of every users who are in social media. In terms of being social users tend to share their personal information to their friends and family. There are security features and policy in the social media applications because sharing information have many positive and negative impacts of social media. Especially, concentrating on the negative aspect of social media. Everyone should be aware of the privacy settings and options that are available for the users in order to manage their profile so that it can remain exclusively between friends and the people who the users want to share their information. There are other features as well such as blocking others from views any information on the users page. Learning these features and option could help users to maintain their privacy and confidentiality.

However, Internet plays a vital role for the success of social media. Another thing about the internet is that once it is in the web, it cannot be delete permanently. The information is always there stored somewhere.We all may have notice that the thing that we have searched on google may have been following us as an advertisement. Also, you may see the advertisement on Facebook. Not only on Facebook but you may see it in other web applications too. It is actually keeping you information where companies have a contract of ad exchange. This is a simple example that social media is not really safe place for privacy and confidentiality.

Advice to Baruch College

Every end of the semester, students are asked to fill out the survey for their respected professor which tells the college something about the classes, Likes and Dislikes,  was class exciting and dynamic— or boring? This is a very nice thing to let the professors know what the students think about his/her teaching and class personality. With this survey, professors can uncover what they're doing right, and what they're doing wrong and with this information, they can even make next semester's classes more exciting.

However, I think Baruch College should let students know the result of the survey as well. Most of the students before registering the classes visits the web "ratemyprofessor.com." I also visit it to check about the classes and the professor. I think Baruch College should come up with some social application where they can store these testing and evaluation information so that it can be access to the students as well who are going to take the course in next semester. So, that they can even evaluate better with the referencing the older evaluations done by the students.