blog 22

“How Safe is Myspace?” is an article that was written by a young lady named Hillary Hylton. In the article Hillary talks about two different stories pertaining to the title of the article. One of the stories is a young girl who is originally 14 years old pretends to be 18 and date a 19 year old boy. In the end of the story the 19 year old boy ended up getting arrested for having sex with a minor. Another headline in the same article How Safe is Myspace tells a story of a 16 year old honor student from Michigan flew as far as Jordan to marry a boy she had met only online on myspace. As the article says “or parents who have only a passing knowledge of MySpace, let alone the ever multiplying horde ofcompetitors like Xanga, Facebook and Bebo, it may be hard to understand why kids flock to these sites and how they can be more dangerous than old-school chat rooms. The reason: in chat rooms, predators have to engage in conversation to get to know people. But on sites like MySpace, they can access gobs of information by reading users' profiles, which tend to include photos as well as blog entries and bantering with friends. The article “ How Not to Lose Face on Facebook” was not in the articles that we were able to read for some reason but the group that explained the article some what explained it good. The person presenting the article in group four had said that its easy to “lose” your face when all you do is social networking sites. What that means is that you communicate to your friends and family members more so on the computer and through all the social networking sites rather than giving them a call, ringing their door bell saying hello of meeting up somewhere. It is easy to lose contact with people you may know when you get addicted to the computer.