Hi guys, I did my homework assignment this week on open source and peer production. In my opinion open source tends to create massive peer production. This is a model I came up with to explain this:

Intention to use/User   –>  Contributions  –>   Benefits  –>   User Satisfaction and then back again to intention to use.

To get a better understanding I will provide you 2 examples.

Example 1 (Mozilla Firefox):

Mozilla Firefox is an open source browser that is gaining a lot market share in a field dominated by Microsoft internet explorer. Firefox is appropriating a lot of these market shares because it plays better on some defaults and bugs.

Example 2 (PHP(Hypertext Preprocessor)):

PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development but also used as a general-purpose programming language. When asking programmers why they use PHP nowadays so often instead of other programming tools they simply answer that it is much easier to use.

To sum up open source in combination with peer production created success for these two companies. Who else can optimize a product than the one that uses that product? The consumers use the program –> adjusts it –> and then enjoy it!

Nowadays  almost everyone makes use of social media. By social media we can think of Facebook, Twitter , MySpace, YouTube, Skype etc.. When it’s said that almost everyone uses this media we may also think of workers, students and even criminals.

Workers often call in sick when they actually aren’t even sick. This is very annoying for an employer because the less workers are active on work, the less productivity can be achieved. A few years ago it was very difficult for the employer to check whether their employee was really sick or if it was just a lie. Now this controlling has become as easy as a click. Workers ( who make normal use of social media) tend to post a lot on social media platforms. They post there whereabouts, what they planned on doing and even some pictures of what they are doing. Employers usually check their social media to control whether they were really sick when they called in sick. If an employer knows that a worker called in sick on Friday and later he/she sees a picture of the employee dancing at a party which was held on Friday, he/she will will have to take some actions against the lying employer.

The same thing happens with students. They claim to be sick and leave school that day but afterwards it is seen that they were just lying about sickness to do something more exciting.

In some countries it is allowed to use social media as evidence against criminals. Criminals also post their whereabouts, pictures or even normal status updates (accidentally leaving the Geo-tagging function on). Most of the time criminals lie about what they did on a certain day. The use of  social media thus makes  it is easy to know what a criminal did on a certain day. Cody Hall,18, was accused of knocking over and killing cyclist Diana Hersevoort, 58, in California, however, one of his tweets where he boasted of speeding and including messages like ‘come on a death ride with me’, were used against him and his charges were upgraded.

So making use of social media can make your almost perfectly planned lie a flop!

Some time ago: What’s your name,what’s your phone number,  where do you live, who are your parents etc.? Do you want to go on a date?  Your going on a vacation tomorrow? Okay, I’m very sorry:(

Nowadays: What’s your name? No I don’t need more. I can get everything else from your Facebook. Let’s go on a date? No, you can’t because your to far?. No problem, turn on your Skype and let’s have an E-date:)

E dating is the best solution for the ones who are busy most of the time. You can do this through social media by using your smartphone for example. E-dates are much more fun aren’t they? We show our best body part through a Skype video chat and the other person will much likely be more interested. Imagine your left ear being more attractive than your right one, this will obviously result in you showing your left ear only and hiding your right one. Great way to deceive someone.

Research shows that online dating is successful. The percentage of marriages in which the couple met on a dating site accounted for 17% of all. The number of people engaged in romantic relationships is higher.  It is great right? What happens here is that couples create an emotional bond together. Let’s take as an example that there is a fat man trying to seduce a really well shaped woman  through an E-date. This man is likely to lie about his weight.  After several E-dates this woman may begin to like this man (because of his characteristics of course) and they set up a real date. When the woman gets to see that the man is a bit overweight she will feel a little deceived but the chances are small that she will not be willing to see him again. So in time people get attached and they don’t mind a small lie that is used on a E-date.

In my opinion E-dating is tricky but still a strategic way of getting a fiance.

What do you guys think of E-dating?