Telechronics (Ademar Days of opinion): internet, 4G networks and social networks on the agenda.
Is decreasing the number of people who claim that the internet has a positive effect.
Ademar Days
Journalist
Radio Horizonte Algarve / Tavira
The latest report from Pew Research shows that only 70% of the adults surveyed believe that the internet has a positive effect, unless 76% who had given the same answer in 2014. The trend also manifests itself in older adults, with 64% the answer that the net was positive when in 2014 the percentage was in 78%.
The certainty we have is that the way the Internet is viewed has changed over the past few years, being that of instant communication and information capabilities are still valued by most.
What about ao 4G? As we are in Portugal? We pay more or less than the rest of the world?
Data from a study of Rewheel, on prices for access to the internet on mobile devices in a wide range of countries, placing Portugal among the countries of EU and OECD where mobile access to the internet prices are higher.
The study focuses on the amount of gigabytes on 4G network that can buy for between the 5 and 80 euros in the countries that comprise the European Union and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
And what was found? While in Estonia, Denmark, Holland, Finland or Bulgaria if you can get unlimited access to 4G data for 30 euros, Portugal is in the tail of the OECD countries with the offer of 3GB for the same amount. Behind, only Canada, Hungary and South Korea with 2GB, and Greece and Malta have not bid for the respective value.
Assessing the graphics of the study, Portugal presents itself as one of the countries to pursue higher prices. To this must be the fact that there are only three telecom operators, compared to other markets with four, like France, that makes prices fall.
Instagram is the worse social network for your mental health.
The warning comes by Vikky Ryall, director of the National Foundation for Mental Health Youth, in Australia, specifying that the “incessant proliferation of images in many 'perfect' cases mainly affects younger, who are most vulnerable and predisposed to want to achieve ideals of perfection that are false”.
More… the British Royal Society for Public Health conducted a new study #StatusofMind (#EstadodaMente), reiterates that these and other concerns. Researchers interviewed 1500 young, the aged 14 and 23 year old, on Instagram, on snapchat, o Twitter, Facebook and YouTube impact on their mental health.
The ascertained results revealed that Instagram is in fact the most damaging social network, especially for younger women. The famous digital application stood out for its ability to filter out any imperfections, which can in turn make its users feel anxious, depressed, alone and frustrated.
Move to another brand that is regularly in this space, or YouTube.
Susan Wojcicki, CEO do YouTube, It revealed that the platform has 1.8 billion subscribers monthly viewers.
This number refers only to users who have a YouTube account, so it is expetável that the real number of viewers is even greater.
Wojcicki said that's promised new tools and building infrastructure to help make the most secure platform.
"It's incredibly important for me and for all on YouTube that grow responsibly. There is a guide to how open platforms like ours should work ... What I think about it is we have to be on the right side of history ", afirmou Susan Wojcicki, says Engadget.
Now a curiosity… the disk can be a universal symbol but two-thirds of the young participants in a survey do not know what a floppy disk.
The disk may be a universal symbol software to store information but, according to the survey from YouGov, two-thirds of 2.011 young people between 6 and 18 year-old not to know.
The study aimed to verify the familiarity of the younger with older technology, revealing be other devices and technologies at risk of 'extinction'.
That 12 tecnologias/gadgets, were OHP (often used in schools), teletext and 'pager' the least known among respondents, and the phone, the rotary phone and the camera remain the most popular.
We finished with usual suggestion film and present a dysfunctional comedy with a horror touch.
The film "Beware of Mom and Dad" (“Mom and Dad†no tÃtulo original) It includes conducting Brian Taylor and has actors like Nicolas Cage, Selma Blair and Anne Winters main highlights of the cast.
The film deals with an unknown source epidemic that causes parents from around the world violently attack their own children. Suddenly, no reason to justify, They begin to happen gruesome murders of children, youth and adults at the hands of parents. In panic, but committed to protect each other from the fury of their parents, the children will be filled with courage and resist the worst 24 hours of their lives ...
Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVO8SyRHxa8
