This article is about how 38% of children on Facebook are younger than 12 years old. I found this to be really shocking! Even though there are privacy settings for Facebook, you still have to be careful with the people you talk to. Another thing i found surprising was that 74% of parents are worried about their children's safety, yet they still let their children on Facebook. There are many things that parents have to look out for when their children are on Facebook. Including sexual predators and cyber bullying. Even though parents say they are concerned it doesn't show in the stats when there are 6 year olds on Facebook.  

This article is about how Amazon is now letting you trade in your CD's in exchange for Amazon gift cards. you can purchase any thing on Amazon using your gift cards. However you wont know how much you'll receive on your gift card. This depends on how much the CD is worth. I found this to be interesting because now most of society's music is coming from online and CD's are losing their popularity. This is a perfect example. There are other things that you can trade to Amazon such as movies and video games. These two objects are also being replaced by the internet.  

This article is about Etsy sending 20 of their female engineers to a hacker school in New York City to learn more about coding. Etsy finds it very important that they send women because in the engineering field women are a minority. Etsy's VP, Marc Hedlund believes that we need to start introducing engineering to women sooner, like in elementary school. I found this very interesting because I think it would be great if the school systems started introducing engineering earlier. As well I found it interesting how so few women were in the engineering field. 

This article is about how Samsung is not coming out with a 3D smartphone any time soon. Samsung told Engadget that they have no immediate plans to include displays featuring 3D technology in their upcoming smartphones. I found this interesting because I wonder how many people would enjoy a 3D phone. I think that for movies and games on your phone it would look really good. I also found this interesting because I wonder why Samsung is not coming out with smartphones that have 3D features. 

This article is about how youtube will be offering a 3D option for their videos. Viewers can choose whether or not they want to watch the videos in 3D. I think that its really cool what youtube is doing, and I think many people will watch their videos in 3D. However the picture quality and the 3D aspect of the video may not be very good and people will not use the 3D option. I personally am not a fan of 3D, but I think the rest of society like it and will be really excited to have 3D youtube videos.  

This article is about how a teen in China had sold his own kidney to get the money to pay for an ipad and iphone. Now this teen is going through renal failure, meaning his body can't filter out toxins so he is going to need a kidney transplant. The doctor, surgeon and medical staff involved in this case have been charged. I found this article to be really eye opening. I couldn't believe that someone would go through so much trouble to get an ipad and iphone. It shows how much society cares about having the latest thing. Its a bit sad now that the teen has to have a kidney transplant because of this. 

This article is about how Best Buy will close 50 box stores and open 100 mobile shops. I found this really interesting how our society has changed so much. Now our most used devices are being replaced with newer, better, faster and smaller devices. It is interesting to see how times change. Best Buy will now change its merchandise to better suit the market. I cant imagine Best Buy without TV's.  

This article is about how you can pay to tweet on your toilet paper. The service called "Shitter" allows you to take your feeds from twitter and put it on toilet paper. I found this really funny that people would actually pay for your tweets on your toilet paper. And the paper is actually really expensive if you think about it. Each sheet is about 8.5 cents. 

This article is about whether or not you could last 2 weeks without social media. In our society today social media has become a major part of our lives. I think that many people would have trouble going 2 weeks without their favorite sites. Now mashable has a challenge for anyone who wants to join to see if they can last 2 weeks without social media. 

This article is about how you can protect your personal information that is on your computer/phone. There are a few ways that you can increase your security and privacy settings so that no one else can see your information. For instance you can manage which apps can access your data on that service. Or you could turn off your location tracking on your phone so that no one knows where you are. This is a very useful article because many of us forget how important it is to keep our information to ourselves. Whenever you put something online, you never know who can see it. 

This skateboard is all controlled by your brain waves. When you picture where you want to go, the skateboard moves in that direction. This isn't very safe, but i'm sure many people would buy it if it were for sale. The head set that you have to wear measures your brain waves and sends it to the tablet that is connected to the skate board. I don't know about you but I would rather drive this than a car. 

My life is made easier! This new USB hub lets you insert the USB from both sides.  I would definitely use this. I always put the USB the wrong way and always have to flip it over. I think many people would find this useful, and would willingly spend $23 dollars for it. And it comes is four stylish colours! 

This article talks about how people are not comfortable giving their credit card information to social networks. I agree with these people. Something as valuable and important as your credit card info should be protected. There are many hackers online and once you put something online you can never get it back. I found it interesting to discover that men ages 45-54 use their mobile devices to access social networks more than 18-44 year old people. 

This article is really useful if you are tired of the usual sites such as google. It really opened my eyes to new sites. I always use google, but now I think I will try some new sites.  I still like using google but I found it interesting when looking up some of google's alternatives. I think that many people will find these alternatives useful. As well as always having plan B when you are having trouble finding something or are tired of using the same resources. 

In this article we learn about a new site where it will destruct your email once the recipient has read it. This is used for safety purposes. However I would not use this. I find it isn't very useful when you have to refer back to the email for information. This is a good idea for people who are concerned about others reading their private emails and might not have enough space in their inboxes.  

This is what my dad wants me to build for him. This guy uses two computer programs to launch the beer. The first program is in the remote, and it waits for the button to be pushed. Once it is pushed its sends a signal over the air ways to the second program in the fridge telling it to load the beer. When the beer is loaded, the computer program tells it to launch. This relates to our class because the guy uses computer programs to do a task. Later in the course we will learn how to program.