Myspace or Yours?

Journal 1

The article is talking about social networking. The main points being here that of myspace and facebook. It mentions the first phenom being friendster which targeted the demographic of 25-35 year olds. The problem with Friendster is that it got old fast. So people moved over to Myspace and Facebook. Myspace which was created for musicians in 2003 was clearly the user friendly choice for social networking. Myspace is now pushing almost over 90 million users. Myspace might be a great are to network with others but the risk might be more than the benefits. Myspace is a free base account website that lets you upload your pictures and your profile about yourself. This might be great if you know other people on line or have other friends who are on myspace and want to share pictures and see each others site. The problem with this is the fact that anyone can have a myspace. Even though it is for 16 year old and up you can choose the age and birth date to your user. In all honesty I could be a 17 year old in high school and no one would ever know the difference I could post blogs about High school and dances and a high school girl and look at this and be amazed all time not knowing that I am actually 25. The risk is there with myspace. Facebook is a little different. With face book you have the security of actually being in school. Users who sign in with facebook need a school email to sign in which means that not any ordinary old Joe can register with facebook. Which eliminates the possibility of a 40 year old creep saying he is 18, facebook is a great social networking site, but in all honesty nothing is really 100% safe.

1.) how has myspace effect my life?

I have a myspace and facebook account and it is really fun at times I do have sincere pictures of myself and friends just having a good time. Not pictures which are incriminating or have no self respect. I use myspace as a place to see old friends and check my messages, but I have realized that some students do lie about there age and grade. Which is funny but kind of scary at times.

2.) how would I educate my students on this?

Well I guess I would have to tell them to be careful out there and be wise about these sites. That not everyone is a knight and shining armor, there are bad guys out there and sometimes they look like the good guy, so be careful.