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  Do the “computer generation” use this word in another way then their parents or older siblings do? The author of the article : Facebook dumbing friendships down? Says that he feels the need to introduce his friends as really good or very close friends because the word friend can be used on almost anyone. To call somebody your friend today you just need to be superficially familiar with the person. According to the writer of this article, this is all because of the application on Facebook where you are suppose to have all your friends listed. Users do not only have their friend on Facebook but also people that you might not call your friend in real life. But is that wrong? I understand this thinking but I also think that with the growth of Facebook, the persons who use it grows with the new language and the new meaning of words. Meaning that if I introduce somebody as my friend, the person we talk to will know that this could be a close friend to me even if I don’t specificity point that out.

The article: Time’s person of the year: You, tells the reader that the World Wide Web actually is you. The web is you and me, because we are the persons who take of our spare time to make movies or texts to post on our blogs or on YouTube. We use the internet to keep contact with people that we might not would have known today if there were no internet or website where you collect your friends. To be a part of the World Wide Web is like growing with the development of the new sites and also with the new meaning of words, like the word friend. Everybody that is there, on the Internet, knows what we mean when we say that somebody is our friend. Sure, the meaning of the word might have changed, but the users have changed with it.

The conclusion of all this is that the word friend may have a different meaning among young people today then it had before, but it is a bad thing? I don’t think so, because the people who use the changed word changed with the word and understand it’s new meaning. The change is because of internet, but understanding is thanks to internet.

The topic for this blog post is copyright. Copyright is a law for protecting a specific persons or a specific companies exclusive work. As Staffan Teste, the proffer who had the lecture about copyright said, is the exclusive work protected by the law from the day it’s created till seventy years after the creator is dead. If there is more than one creator, will the law of copyright protect the work until seventy years after the death of the last creator. The rules are pretty simple, but even so they seem to be very hard to obey. Why is that?

I can only relate when discussing file sharing but I think that is a good topic for the question about copyright. In our generation it is not a foreign act to share files on the internet. As they said in the movie, Good copy bad copy, there have been discussions about introducing a new law where you pay maybe 500 Swedish crowns a year for free downloading of the internet. I can not imagine that this would be a compulsory law that makes everybody, even the people who doesn’t download anything, pay that amount of money every year.

I think the idea is good in theory but what would keep track on who is downloading from which computer? Let us say that you pay to be able to download from just your computer, or with your user name on any computer. Who can control that it is not ten different persons who is splitting the money so that all of them can download from one computer or with the same user name?

I think that something needs to be done, but if there were a good solution to all this I am sure that it would have been presented by now. For example, Spotify is great but it is nor enough. I have heard something about a program that works like Spotify but instead of music there are movies. I don’t think it exists and I don’t know if it ever will but isn’t that a good idea? I know I think so.

I think that copyright is a good law but it is a bit unclear. In the movie they showed a guy who makes remixes of already existing music. How much of old songs can he take and mix and then call it his own? I think that is a bit unfair to the first owners.

Triumph of the nerds, is a movie about the development of one of the most common thing to own today, the computer. Believe it or not but it all started about 40 years ago, in a garage whit some friends just playing with technology. One thing led to another and one of the boys, Bill Gates, who today is one of the wealthiest people in the world, dropped out of school to join the growing development. It’s fascinating to see the young people so committed to their interest in technology. After their first big hit on the market both of the young boys earned enough money to never have to work for a living again. But their big interest kept them working to build new parts and programs. I loved to watch all this and to learn how Bill Gates, at age of 24 got so rich and successful is very interesting to me.

To see the development of computers that we today use every day makes me think of where we would be today if Bill Gates never where born. Would somebody else invent everything he did or would we be without all those thing?

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