Thursday, February 11, 2010

Review of Social networking, youth and privacy.....

Summary:

The EDUCASE article," Youth privacy, and social networking technologies" discusses, the types of, and the laws that are around the uses around social networking. The actual definition of a social network, is a social structure made of individuals or organizations called "nodes," which are tied connected by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, financial exchange, dislike, sexual relationships, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige (Wikpedia dictionary). Social networking is getting dissected by the federal government each day because of the types of materials and sources that are available to its users. Earlier forms of technology such as matching services, bulletin boards etc... acted in the same precedent as today's social networking sites do.. Social networking is the new way people socialize instead of getting out on the weekends. Myspace, facebook and other personal blogs are more technological advanced ways to communicate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdLIgHf-RI4

Reflection:

Over the past decade social networking has launched into galaxies unimaginable. As a society living with the overwhelming advances in technology we must learn to manage it with responsibility and in a reasonable way. Yes the government is daily trying to make laws that ban this network or that network. I feel that we should monitor this as we do other things.. Put restrictions on youth sites. Encourage parents to manage their teens usage. Teens are going to use the social networks regardless. It is similar to the use of alcohol and drug use among this age. They are going to find a way to use. On the other hand, I find it in some cases to be beneficial for some teens. It allows them to communicate in a way that they would not if they had to communicate face to face with a person/people.

Question: What limitations should we put on teen usage of social networking? Should we weigh the pros and cons and let the results make the decision?

1 comment:

  1. Privacy is an issue that we all will be dealing with throughout our lifetime. There is no magic button or pill to resolve this issue. You can't really trust anyone these days with your private information. When we pass our data over to the banktellers, and various companies, there is a chance that someone is dishonest. The internet is more dangerous than ever, and the best route to take, is to not log on. On the other hand, I'm happy that someone is at least trying to figure this thing out.

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