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Words reflect influence that tech, especially social networking, is having on our culture, says storied dictionary.
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Tech terms continue to wend their way into the dictionary.
"Hashtag," "selfie," and "tweep" are just three of the latest words recently added to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster announced on Monday. The new words have already popped up in the online edition and will join the print version as well.
Other tech terms that are now part of the club include "crowdfunding," "big data," "gamification," and "steampunk."
Merriam-Webster has also added "catfish" to the list. In addition to describing the actual fish, "catfish" refers to a "person who sets up a false personal profile on a social networking site for fraudulent or deceptive purposes." The word came into play following a documentary and MTV TV series as well as the bizarre hoax perpetrated against football player Manti Te'o involving a nonexistent online girlfriend.
"So many of these new words show the impact of online connectivity to our lives and livelihoods," Peter Sokolowski, editor-at-large for Merriam-Webster, said in a statement. "Tweep, selfie, and hashtag refer to the ways we communicate and share as individuals. Words like crowdfunding, gamification, and big data show that the Internet has changed business in profound ways."
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The Secret is out.
The anonymous social networking app that in less than four months has become the Silicon Valley sounding board for personal romances and rivalries, and one of the few unfiltered windows into the underbelly of the tech world, is launching worldwide Wednesday.
The Secret app, which allows users to post messages anonymously to friends on their social networks, and to their friends' friends, will be available everywhere users can download it, with the exception of China. It had previously been only in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
The company is also releasing Wednesday an Android version of the app, which until now had been available only for iOS. The Android app will offer users two streams of anonymous messages: one that comes only from friends and friends of friends, a network that is pulled from your contacts and Facebook profile; and a second to show messages from users who are nearby, perhaps in the same neighborhood or city, but aren't in your network.
With the global launch, Secret is trying to distance itself from its reputation as a Silicon Valley gossip machine used only by engineers to rant about their manager at Facebook or the latest romance at Google, and show that the international smartphone-using community is also eager for a bit of anonymous social networking.
"It's spread pretty quickly and to a lot of pockets in the U.S.," co-founder David Byttow said in an interview with this newspaper. "You see people in London, England, and Australia and New Zealand using the product when we go to bed. And it's funny because they post a lot of the same things that we see here in the U.S. People come on the platform and talk about their love life or their aspirations or things they are thinking and feeling."
Secret is secretive about how many users it has, but says that while Silicon Valley and New York still make up the bulk of users, the app is growing in popularity in other parts of the U.S. and Europe.
The second stream, or the "explore" stream, as the founders are calling it, is only on Android and will give users insights into news, gossip or social quirks that are trending around them. Byttow said the company plans to build layers so you can customize the feed -- not unlike creating a Twitter feed around a topic, location or news story.
"You're walking down the street, you're standing at the bus stop, you're bored and you want to see what's going on around you," Byttow said.
Both the iOS and Android apps will be upgraded with features such as fill-in-the-blanks questions -- "Last night I lied about ..." -- to answer and share with friends. The founders call them "icebreakers"; teaching new Secret users how to begin telling secrets.
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5th position holder in HSSLC (Arts) exams, Aadrita Chakravorty.
SHILLONG: With the social networking sites gaining popularity, especially among student, the toppers of the Higher Secondary school leaving certificate (HSSLC) examination feel that excessive usage of the same may hamper students.
Banmankhraw Lyngdoh, the 6th position holder from St Anthonys Higher Secondary School said, Social networking site like Facebook has both pros and cons, it helps to reduce stress but at the same time it should be avoided during exam.
Today, the social networking sites and such as Facebook, Twitter and messaging platforms like Whatsapp and BBM have become a part and parcel of everyones life especially teens. Kritika Goenka, 3rd position holder in this HSSLC from St Marys College also says that she kept herself aloof from all these social sites during her preparations.
Another topper Keith Tennyson Nongsteng from St. Anthonys Higher Secondary School believes that it all depends on the user if he or she want to make social websites productive or not.
Pupils ranked social networking sites, blogs, general websites and magazines above books and this is one of the reason for the low pass percentage as claimed by some parents and teachers.
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The terrible murder last Monday of the head of the Len Provincial Council, Isabel Carrasco, has given rise to a clear situation of abuse and excess on social networking sites. In the immediate wake of the shooting, messages were posted online that were in many cases insulting and denigrating to the victim, and in others, clearly in favor of the use of violence against politicians in particular, those of the ruling Popular Party
These excesses have led the interior minister, Jorge Fernndez Daz, to defend the need to go after those who justify crimes or incite hatred via the internet. He proposes that this be done through the use of additional legal instruments that allow for the compatibility of freedom of expression and the right to information, with a citizens right to honor and safety.
Thus far he has only issued a declaration of intentions, but it is regrettable that a minister should react to a situation that has caused legitimate unease with a proposal to toughen the law that has not been properly thought through, and comes in the heat of the moment. Legislation should never be created in the immediate wake of a scandal.
Legislation should never be created in the immediate wake of a scandal
But whats more, in this case, current laws provide sufficient instruments for the authorities to tackle behavior that is harmful to third parties or violates fundamental rights. All that is needed is for them to be applied. Spains penal code covers offenses such as slander, libel, threatening behavior, coercion, incitement to commit a crime, and justifying terrorism and violence. Whats more, these offenses carry punishments that are sufficiently dissuasive. The recent arrests of two youngsters for inciting violence via the social networking sites proves this to be true. The fact that such behavior has not, until now, been the target of the authorities, apart from on a few rare occasions, has created a perception of impunity, which, in large part, has contributed to the spiral of deterioration in which we find ourselves.
It is likely that the application of the law will have the effect of providing a warning to internet users, given that many of them are insufficiently aware that their online actions can have criminal consequences. In any case, the social networks should not be treated differently from any other form of media.
Aside from criminal proceedings, in the case that they are justified, there are other ways of fighting these excesses. In the first place, via the raising of civic awareness, in the form of moral reproaches. But there is also room for political reproaches when these excesses are carried out by those with public responsibilities. It would be welcomed if Spains political forces were to adopt a self-regulatory code aimed at ending insults and threats over the internet, with offenders forced to resign.
There is, then, no need to change the law, and an approach that leans toward criminalizing the use of the internet, or that threatens freedom of expression, should be avoided.
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