Thursday, October 17, 2013

Crowdsourcing

Well it is a little difficult to think how crowdsourcing relate to my topic of people being overly public with their user content, but after thinking about it and taking different point of views I believe that there is most definitely crowdsourcing going on. Now crowdsourcing is asking people to give their content to a corporation and then they receive a little cut from the content they produce. Now in my example not everyone gets a cut but lets think about a Facebook or Instagram or and other social media cite, now celebrities and companies are all over those cites and it seems like almost daily there is another competition that they are hosting and one person gets a prize and when you see some of the pictures or videos or poems or blogs posted to these competitions there is quite a bit of TMI in them. People will do anything to win and the people throwing the contest are getting free advertisement every time a person chooses to enter a contest. As far as whether or not is has added any challenges to my topic I believe it does because other people will see it and since it is endorsed by a celebrity or a popular company other people see it and think that that celebrity or company agrees with them causing others to post things similar to it or more out there than the first one. I think what can be done to help out this problem is to filter results privately and not letting people post them and have everyone see the entries.

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