I really appreciated Dana Boyd's article on social websites such as Myspace.com. Myspace according to Boyd is fascinating but it also has potential risks and it is not good to underestimate them. Personally, from experience many of my friends use sites like Myspace and Facebook, and often almost all of their "friends" are not their real life friends. It is an online social site so, they feel that by having many friends then they could be popular by having a bunch of friends. Often these people are referred to as, Myspace whores because of the amount of friends that they have on their page.
But, it seems as if teens are unaware of problems on Myspace such as, sexual predators, mental stress problems from the site. Today alot of predators try to get their victims in anyway possible and if they could get them through Myspace then that is their attack.
Through Myspace, there is no protection of identity anymore although. People could see all pictures and often they will comment on one another and eventually hope for a comment back. Overall, these types of things occur everyday, and now it is not through Myspace so much, rather Facebook. Privacy sometimes seems like a word that could be forgotten soon beacuse we are starting to see everything with no boundaries on online sites like Facebook, Myspace, Google, Youtube and many others.
After reviewing some of the article written by Boyd, I wanted to also look at anothers feelings on Facebook and this is what I found. The blogger includes alot of detail.
http://blog.compete.com/2009/03/05/facebook-terms-of-use/
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