I'm a creative, romantic, foodie, millennial,...but most important of all-I'm a FAAAAAAN!

Fans of all sorts are present everywhere we turn.  There are fans of television shows, fans of movies, fans of books, and of course fans of video games.  According to Wikipedia a person who is "enthusiastically devoted to something, such as a band, a sports team or entertainer."  Secretly, whether we are willing to admit it to ourselves in the light of day, or only in the shadows of night, we are all fans of something.

My poison of choice is ASIAN DRAMAS! From Secret Garden to On Call 36, I get excited and follow all of the latest Asian dramas.  I try my best to make it a weekly chore that I go onto various Asian web forums and get the latest on current Asian dramas that are playing.  I mostly watch Hong Kong dramas, and can spend hours on end during the weekends watching dramas.  I also love finding out the latest news on the celebrities of the shows.  I will be first to find out if a drama star is getting married, fired from a gig, or secretly starting an underground relationship. 

As Asian dramas are created slightly different from American dramas, they usually are aired on networks for the duration of only one season.  It is rare that a second season of a drama will be picked up a network.  A lot of times new dramas are created that are slight spin-offs of the themes of previous dramas, but they rarely continue with the plot.

The largest media network conglomerate in Hong Kong is TVB.   TVB produces and broadcast all of their original dramas on through their various stations, and their dramas are all filmed at TVB city.  A dream of mines is to visit TVB city and see the different sets that films are created at.  I wold love to see some of the old-age sets where timed dramas are filmed.  Asian dramas are my LOVE and ADDICTION.  I am a die hard fan, and cannot resist keeping up with the latest news on the dramas or the stars. 

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The WEB

The web is not today what it was yesterday, and isn't today what it will be tomorrow. Web 2.0 is very distinctly different from it's predecessor-Web 1.0.  For one thing Web 2.0 is growing at such a fast rate that it is known as Web squared.

Now that the Web 2.0 has become a sort of network that is a platform, and web applications are getting better as more people use them. There are more users and sensors online that are feeding more applications and platforms. As a result of this more opportunities are created for developers to take on real life problems.  The Web has thus grown exponentially, and Web 2.0 is known as being "squared."

People now on Web 2.0 have what is known as a information shadow.  Because applications on Web 2.0 get better as more people use them, they relay on "crowdsourcing" (the concept that a large group of individuals can create a collective work that has a value greater than any one individual participant) to build their applications.  This information that is obtained from individuals become what is known as an "information shadow."  It is the unique information that is obtained from from the information that web users post while online.  

With all this data about users out there being used and managed by various applications, one can only wonder what will happen if certain application were to be hacked and the data were to fall into the wrong hands.  The applications of Web 2.0 have so much collective intelligence data about users that do not necessarily get deleted, and are simply out there on the platform.  This data is information on people, and could very well be dangerous if dropped into the wrong hands.  We must now be aware that this possibility and risk is present.