Social Networking Issues

By: BoraNiel Chhay

What is Social Networking?

Online community of internet users55% of teens use social networking sitesProvides emails, instant messaging, video/file sharing, blogging all in one place

Why do people use Social Networking Sites?

Find old or new friendsRomanceSearch for jobsSocial Group findingSell merchandiseKill time

List of Social Networking Sites

FacebookMyspaceTwitterImeemFlickr

Facebook

Founded by a Harvard Student in 2004Successful on campus & became popular in Ivy League schoolsProfile can be viewed by anyone within the same networkInformation, Status, Friends, Friends in Other Networks, Photos, Notes, Groups, and The Wall

Founded in 2003 by Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe

MySpace profile typically includes a digital photo and in-depth information about personal interests

Posting multimedia can find you jobs

Metro station, Colbie Caillat, Taylor Swift & Lilly Allen

Cross between blogging and texting.

Post very short messages about what you're doing at each moment

Friends are known as ”Followers”

Famous among celebrities

Founded by Yahoo! Go 2.0 in 2005

Photo sharing site, where you upload pictures, comment, rate and interact with people

Mainly used by photographers

Help find jobs as photographer

Features the ability to create and share playlists

Listen to free musicCelebrities post their music

and promote it on imeem

Concerns about social networking

Identity theftAttract child predatorsDistractionDisconnected from realitySocial isolationBreak career

Social Media can break your career

Real Life Experiences

Micheal Guinn got expelled from a Christian university upon finding out that he was gay through facebook.

A friend made a fake hi5 page with pictures saved from facebook.

2 men were arrested after using MySpace as bait to contact youths & later raped them.

Embrace it not Ban it

“But it is tough. “We have a Facebook page,” said one official of the Department of Homeland Security. “But we don’t allow people to look at Facebook in the office. So we have to go home to use it. I find this bizarre.”

It is not as dangerous as we think it isJust post necessary informationBe careful what you post onlinePost appropriate photos

Thank You

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