For my tweaking project, I decided to mainly tweak text, and see what all I could change. I went for a bit humor but also sarcasm and fear of what each website brings to it’s users.
Turns out you can directly edit the text of tweets, so that was something I immediately tried to do. This was originally about the Super Bowl, but Kylie dropped her baby info (finally I guess) and the internet exploded. Interesting that she did that on the day of the Super Bowl? This is about what a lot of tweets looked like, only everyone knew she was pregnant.
This was more about what I feel Facebook really wants you to do when it asks you for your status. What information will it collect from each status you input? What can it figure out about each user? Does each status let it become closer to cloning us?
This one is slightly more about humor but also how we could be watched by NSA agents, more likely if we are persons of interest. There have been jokes about how they are there to take care of us, in a way, and I chose this email request to show how they might try and push you to be more careful with your information.
Ahh Ebay. This one is pretty self explanatory, but I wanted to show that sometimes buying from random people like it’s a regular shop isn’t the greatest idea. It’s way more of a gamble than normal online shopping. If you buy something off Amazon, it may not be what you wanted, but at least you can really hold them accountable and possibly return it for a new item whereas with Ebay, probably not. Ebay doesn’t really care, in my opinion.
Wikipedia probably should have over 1,000+ different degrees in high school and college. It has saved many of our lives and I just wanted to reflect it’s gold status in our lives. “Don’t use Wikipedia as a source” they said. “I’m not going to” I say, as I source all the references at the bottom of the Wiki page. I changed the background on this one for fun, mainly thinking of Jeopardy and how we use it to solve the little trivia in our lives. I’ll take, “Baseball history” for 500 Alex.
I just wanted to show what we really wanted to see this Super Bowl; the winner of the Puppy Bowl.