Social Networking

Social networking is a used of a website to communicate or share their life with other member of the website. A lot of people use social networking sites today. Even businesses are more and more into the trend. They usually advertise their product or service. I myself use social networking sites every single day. I use it to contact my friend, to keep updated with their life and keeping contact with friends in another country. I also constantly update my status on Facebook. Every time I open Facebook, It asks me "What are you doing?" So seeing that every time I open the website, I update what was I doing at the time. In the article "Being There: The subtle art of the Facebook update", by Virginia Heffernan it says "Status updates are part of a Twitter-like feature that induces­ members to publish their answers to the question “What are you doing right now?” Responses, which are confined to 160 characters" what makes Facebook great is that Facebook does not limit how many characters you can type in one single status update. That's why I love about Facebook. One thing that is bad about social networking sites is that people upload "sexy" pictures of themselves. That can create a lot of problem like stalking or rape. Mostly that upload this kind of pictures are young girls. On the article "Teens getting savvier about MySpace, especially girls" by Alex Zaharov-Reutt. " it says "A new national survey of teenagers conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project says that more than half (55%) of all online American youths ages 12-17 use online social networking sites." I feel like young kids ages from 12-15 need parental control over their access to online social networking sites. Parents does not really know who are they friends with, who are they talking to, or what are they going through from that website.