Social websites

Hello readers!

As you know, nowadays everybody uses the social websites, such as twitter, facebook, tuenti, whatsapp... Our society, is surrounded with computers and mobile phones. We can spend hours in any of these websites without bored. This post is for all of you, for teenagers or for children that use any type of websites and for parents, if they don't know very well how it is all this world and if they want to learn more. I'm going to advise you how to use properly these pages, because they have already got a very big importance in young people's life.

These virtual pages are fantastic places to chat with your friends, to share your pictures and videos, to see people's pictures if you know too, to send them a message, to see the events that you have, also we have a possibility to play many games and other things. However, all this is fantastic if you use it correctly, and we are not conscious about the consequences that they could have. We always think that something bad or strange couldn't happen to us, but it can happen easily if you don't know how to control the privacy. So, to repair this, you must customise the settings. Remember that all the information that they require isn't obligatory, you can leave them in white, questions like; where do you live, your mobile phone number, your school... I recommend you to give as less information as possible, because it is going to be more difficult for someone that you don't know to localise you. Other advise that I give you is to change the password at least once a year, and don't tell it to anyone.

Another point we must have in mind is that when we say a friend in Tuenti or Facebook, we are not speaking about traditional friend that she/he is going to help us every time we need it. It's just someone that only we know by sight. Then, we have to be careful, because when you less expect it that person can be evil.

From my point of view, the social websites are very useful to speak with far away friends or family members. But always taking in account all I have said and the risks that it can have. I hope that you are going to follow my advice and be careful!

You can watch this video that explains how to customise the settings in Facebook.

Hello everybody! We have just learned how to create an avatar! I hope that you will like it!

Different cultures around the world

Hello to everyone!

Today, I have decided to write an article about the different cultures, and I have chosen this topic because I think that it's curious to know how live people in other places.  Have you ever thought about how many different cultures there are around the world? Are you interested in them? If the answer is yes you can study something more about the peoples live. Let's start!

Firstly, we have to know that there are more than 50.000 cultures. It seems impossible! But, what is the meaning of the culture? It is the way of life, is seen in people's writing, religion, music, clothes, cooking, and in what they do.

I will start explaining  the Arabian culture. In the Arab society, the family is one of the most important aspect. Always they have one person, normally is the father, like the head of the family. This person have to work and earn money to carry the family on. However, the women work at home, cooking, cleaning, taking care of children... It is said, that Arab culture teaches that the needs of the group are more important than the needs of one person.

The black stone

 It's curious to know that the Arabians adored a black stone, that it is located in  the Mecca. It's the place where Muslims pray and their god is Ala and all people must go there at least once in their life to give three laps to the sacred stone.

In the second place, I'm going to focus in the Chinese culture. It's one of the oldest cultures in the world. As you know their typical drink is tea, and the ceremony of the tea is one of Chinese major contributions to the world culture.

Chinese rice

Regarding Chinese food, instead of eating with forks and knives, they eat with chopsticks and with a little spoon made of wood. It's good to know as a curiosity that the fish is prepare stew and is served entire. This way of serving the fish guarantees that it is as fresh as possible. 

Concerning celebrations, the largest festival marks the beginning of the lunar new year. During the 15-day celebration, children receive money in red envelopes for good luck and people thorough clean their homes to signify a fresh beginning.

Finally, I'm going to explain the third society, the Indian culture. In their way of life, they do many strange things comparing with our culture. Such us, Indians find toilet paper repellent and consider it cleaner to splash water with the left hand in the appropriate direction. Consequently, the left hand is considered unclean and is never used for eating. Also, in this culture to stay widow is considered bad luck, otherwise, her husband wouldn't have died. And it is traditional to wear white, not black, to a funeral in India. If you want to know more  curiosities click here.
You can watch this video to know more about Indian culture:

So as you can see all the cultures are different, but all are interesting. I hope you've liked it! Bye:)

Here you have some of the websites where I have taken the information:

Chinese culture

Arabian culture

Indian culture

Hello friends!
I'm Irati Estarbe and welcome to my first blog! I'm in DBH 4 and I'm in ICT's class.
If you like my blog, you can visit it more often to read all the work that I'm going to do along the year.
I hope that you are going to enjoy!
I will be waiting for you! :)