In the first of our P2P research sessions Headboxer Rushda Khan (23) takes a look at the Internet and how it effects her and her friends social world. Keeping a close eye on Facebook, Rushda investigates how, if at all, social networks benefit us.
Like many young people, my Facebook friend count has hit three figures. But I am not a popular person: I have exchanged only a few sentences with most of my Facebook friends and I have never spoken to a third of them at all.
Yesterday, The Independent published an article predicting the end of ‘the place for friends’, MySpace. We asked Headbox Think Tank member Ashley Wilkinson investigates the slow demise of the social networking heavyweight and looks back on the good times that were had.
I remember when I first started using MySpace. I was chatting to a friend from Australia, we were both bored and he said I should check out this thing called MySpace. I set up a profile and filled in some simple information. After browsing through a selection of other profiles
According to a recent report by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industries, 95% of music downloads in 2008 were illegal. The report claims that more than 40 billion songs were illegally downloaded and popular music website DrownedinSound calculate that this left the music industry with £48 billion shortfall.
The music industry is apparently only making 5% of its potential and with the already dramatic decrease in legitimate physical sales due to the “digital revolution,” the age of file sharing appears to be causing irreparable damage. Whilst these figures are dubious and many will question how they could ever calculate such a figure, it highlights the degree to which illegal downloads towers over legal downloads.
To coincide with the release of our Tech Tribe report we got in touch with some of our Headboxers to give us an insight in to their lives during the recession. The first topic we approached them about was job hunting during the recession, has it been as bad as everyone makes it out to be? Or is it still a fruitful market for the young professional?
Here is what the Headboxers had to say:
“A few months ago i was trying to ignore the recession, i thought that it was still in firms best interests to hire graduates because in a year or two things hopefully will be looking a bit better and i didnt think
A few months ago the Face Wired team sat down to discuss the direction we wanted to take Headbox in. The first thing we decided was that the site needed a bit of a spruce up, just to make sure the aesthetics matched the forward thinking of co-creation. We began by throwing some ideas around; basically trying to establish exactly what Headboxers really wanted from the site. What would keep them coming back? What would keep them entertained? How can we keep thousands of people excited and engaged in what we do? Several hours of debate and deliberation (a.k.a. arguing) later we were stuck in a deadlock. We knew what we wanted but didn’t really know how to get there; it was at this point we realized where we were going wrong.
