Facebook is using you By: Lori Andrew's

    The main point of this article is to inform people on how online websites are using the information that you put online to effect what happens throughout the rest of your life. Like what jobs you can get or what other people will think about you even before they meet you in person. The writer of they article (Lori Andrew's ) has studied and researched the problem and she thinks that people should know what other people know about them.
    I to think that you should know what others know about you because why should people be able to get all the information they want on you but its not just that easy to look up a name on a website and you know their whole back round. Thats not fair that you can get judged on what you write on the pictures you post online.
    Yes, now that I have read this article I am a little more concerned about the stuff i write online because sometimes I might write things like "I can't take school anymore" and people might take that as a sign that i don't want to finish going to school or I don't want to go to college. Now I have to watch what I write /say  on Facebook because it will change other peoples views about me before they even get a chance to meet me.

I'm a criminal and so are you By: Michelle Alexander

    This article is about a women who considers herself and everyone else in this world as a criminal. So she ask other people to see if they feel the same.
    Michelle Alexander thinks that every one is a criminal , in some form of way they have committed a crime. When she asked people questions "Haven't you ever committed a crime?" she gets responses like "Well, yeah, but I'm not a criminal." Many people are criminals, because if you drink or smoke when your underage then that is considered a crime. Even if you do not get court doing it, it's still against the law.
    I agree with Michelle Alexander, that every one is a criminal, because every one has committed a crime wether it was big or small. I believe this is an important topic because it is many people who agree and disagree with this topic, and you can get many good responses. Before i read this article i thought it was going to be about people who are in jail, but after i read it, I got a whole different view of the article.
    This article made me think very deep about the topic that "every one is a criminal" because not saying that every single person in the world is a criminal but the topic makes you think and makes you say to yourself the famous quote that "No one is perfect."

Photoshopped or Not? A Tool to Tell , By Steve Lohr

     This article is about the digital online photo editing software that people are using to make famous people look like princesses or barbies. As said in the article "Dr. Farid and Eric Kee, a Ph.D a student in computer science at Dartmouth, are proposing a software tool for measuring how much fashion and beauty have been altered," and "Their work is extended as a technological step to address concerns about the common use of highly idealized and digitally edited images in advertising and fashion magazines."
     I think that online photo editing is okay sometimes if you are just adding some minor details to a photo of yourself or just adding decorations to a family picture,  but when people do things to make them self look like everything about them is perfect or like something they are not it is just too much. I also think the people who use photoshop are not to pleased with all of their features and they just want to look like a model and because photoshop lets you do these things it makes them look how they want to.
    I have used Photoshop before but not because I don't like the way I look, it was just for fun.
When I see others that use this online digital photo editing process they try to improve every aspect of their body. The conclusion on this whole thing is that photoshop is good for doing pictures but it can not change you overall appearance and thats what people need to understand.

In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad , By Charles Duhigg and David Barboza

This article is mainly about the iPad and how people make these expensive electronic devices. In the beginning of the article it talks about the explosion that happened last May and how two people died from the explosion and many others got hurt. Getting it talks about how hard these people that make these iPads have to work. In the article it say's "Some workers' swelled so much they waddled." Also as said in the article "Banners on the walls warned the 120,000 employees: work hard on the job today or work hard to find a job tomorrow." The end of the article just raps it up by saying if the costumers don't ask for better conditions in those factories the workers will continue to be treated badly.
 The question I have is , "Is it fair that the workers at the Foxconn factory work so hard to make these iPads but don't get paid a lot?"
 I do not think it is fair that these workers work all day and don't get paid a lot of money. The main reason why I don't think its fair is because all the workers are bringing the company so much money, they work 12 hours a day, sweat , get no breaks , while the owners just sit back and take all the credit. they should at least make the workers comfortable while they work, instead of just making them stand all day.