Thursday, July 31, 2008

good images vs bad images


Nakakatawa. Nung isang beses, nagsearch ako ng images ng salitang "girls" tapos yung mga maaayos na images, hindi lumalabas. Pero yung mga masasagwa, ayon, kitang kita! Haha.

The one thing I hate most about when I’m surfing the Internet is when images do not show up. I am a visual type of person and to see images or photos that would describe a certain article is important for me to decide if I will continue to surf the website or not. I have experiences like this whenever the Internet connection is down. And there are times wherein no matter how many times I refresh the page, the images still do not show up.

As I searched random subjects in the Internet using the school’s computer, there are times when a “blocking” software, more commonly known as DANSGUARDIAN installed in the computers would appear. There is a counterpart though to the software which is the ULTRASURF that students install in their flash drives so that they can still connect to websites that have been blocked by DANSGUARDIAN. However, ULTRASURF slows down the connection. It will take more time for the website to show up than without using the ULTRASURF.

The Internet has become more and more “polluted” and impure from time to time. For instance, when I searched for images of “girls” in Google, this image showed up:


I mean, what if children would want to search for the word "girls" and this image showed up? The Internet isn’t safe and for me, that is an Internet flaw and bad trait that could possibly not be resolved unless parents would install softwares to block such images.

2 comments:

samchanso said...

I agree because I also experience the same things whenever I surf the internet. I think that it's obvious that it has become much bombarded with visuals and texts containing mature content.

No matter how safe your inputted keywords may be for the search entry, there will always be one or two photos "standing out from the bunch."

Let us compare it to an egg. You see an amazingly white egg so you decide to devour it. You hastily crack it open - it's waiting patiently for you to put its delicious contents inside your wide open mouth and ultimately down to your complaining stomach. But your hopes suddenly went down the drain when you finally see that the yolk inside your amazingly white egg is bulok. Game Over. Please try again!

side-saki said...

haha, they can't stop us. makakahanap at makakahanap tayo ng way para makapagsurf ng maayos sa school. para walang limits. walang pesteng DANSGUARDIAN. haha!