Thursday, January 24, 2008
Facebook/Myspace
With our recent assignment of creating a facebook or myspace profile, I already had this accomplished during my freshman year in college. I realize from 3 years ago to now the way that I would make a profile has changed drastically, over the years the privacy of these networking pages has increased greatly. I continually was changing my account settings to make my information more private because I was getting emails from people I didn't even know. For someone who is in middle school or even high school this could lead to false ideas of people and information. When I first opened my accounts I guess you could say I was naive and thought everyone was wanting to be friends and being nice. After learning that some of these people wanting to be my "friend" were 40+ year old men I changed my opinion quickly! Between the two accounts that I currently have I would definitely say that I like myspace better because it is not as easy to become "friends" with someone if you don't know some information about them, such as last name or email address. More security options are now in place and that makes me feel more comfortable, versus facebook you can make some information private but random people still request friends that they don't know. Also within the last year facebook aka stalkerbook gives overwhelming information about everyone that you are friends with. You are receiving every little bit of information about your friends and their facebook profiles which is a little over the top for me. Overall I like these networks/companies who have come up with ways to reinstate friendships with people you haven't seen in years, and I am glad that they are keeping up with the requests of the chatters to have different levels of privacy and security.
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I find it interesting that you and I have had the opposite experience with MySpace and Facebook. I have all but abandoned MySpace as every other message is some porngirl/bot trying to get me to add her and then go to her website. Even while private, the other messages I get tend to be random hellos from local women looking to meet someone, or band trying to sell me something. Facebook still remains mainly OSU though... the odd message from a friend of a friend or class mate, but rarely any spam. much less on the creep factor.
Then again, instead of a blond girl, I am a fairly unremarkable guy, so neither page is actually a draw.
But I think you hit the mail on the head over time, the initial creation and exposition of elf becomes more and more restrictive based on experience. So, that begs the questions: playing it to the end, does the inevitable conclusion of these social networking sites and our interaction with them mean we are destined to abandon them and close then down?
Does the requirement of security and privacy eventually lead users to give up their use?
Well my opinion has changed because I can’t just have my page open I have to really be secure about my page and I just watch who I put as my friends and watch pretty much every conversation that I have with people that I no but not as familiar with as like my close friends. You just never no anymore and that’s the scariest part. I was really nervous when I had a stalker because I had never had one before and to know that someone was stalking me was crazy. But I was happy that I blocked them and haven’t heard from them since. Have you ever had a stalker before on MySpace or Facebook?
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