I am Pinning!!! Or is it winning? Or am I really missing?

We all copyrighting is illegal and wrongful, I mean we see it every time we watch a movie, the FBI warning pops up and we read it in a mocking voice or at least I do in my head. However, people still illegally download or try to find loop holes to post videos of what they want where they want. I know for a fact I have not read terms of use for anything I use; I usually scroll done to the bottom mark that I understand and move on. I mean I feel as though you can use common sense when it comes to using technology so why bother reading all the fine print!

I was looking at some of the terms of use and I came to Pinterest because I love Pinterest!

Pinterest it is a great new social medium a lot of people are using. What was interesting about their terms of use is the fact they have these huge paragraphs with a lot of wording, but on the side they have these box called “More simply put.” In these boxes Pinterest gives the quick and dirty version of what the lengthy paragraphs say. This is just another way to allow people to barely read the terms and get the main point, but would they be missing anything?

I also, know that nothing in life is free and I wonder what I am giving up by using these social mediums. I know that MySpace took pictures in my account and put them online. I could not do anything about it because it is the Internet and once it is on there it is hard to get down.  So I know I give up rights and I am not sure why I do not think about it more. I guess it is because I want to be on the social mediums and do not really care about what it means I am giving up.

This relates to what Burgess says about “new networks of cultural production” because we are giving up our rights to be a part of an online cultural. If you do not have a Facebook or a Twitter or a Pinterest people look at you like you are an outsider. I remember someone I worked with did not have a Facebook because he believed it was a waste of time. When he announced this to my other co-workers they were shocked because this was how they planned on communicating. Even though they ended up using Facebook to communicate the one member was left out of all the inside jokes and funny posting because we had a new network and had creating a culture online. To this day I wonder if he had joined or if we had included him in another way somehow if he would have been closer to us.

Everything we do in a social medium has an effect on our cultural. However, like Burgess also said “the content and value of Web 2.0 is still not well understood.” I think we are finally realizing what the Web 2.0 means for the future and some are questioning its intent, but there needs to be more.