Week 7 - Thing 16

Social Networking....social networking...social networking....first we started with friendster then we evolved into all these "dating" sites now we are left with the epitamy of them all Myspace. Now, thats not to say its a horrible site, wait, I am. Let me rephrase that...That's not say that I do not have one, because I do.

Do I use it?

Not so much.

Why have one?

I jumped on the bandwagon when it was popular, thank you to Ryan and I tend to get free tickets from Funny bone via the bullitens.

Now yes, as a social networking site, I do have many of my highschool classmates as my friends, and I do pry into some of my closer friends' lives. But hey, isn't social networking all in a way stalking now-a-days? For example:

But hey, lets not get on a rant....wait. Lets.

People making myspace accounts that are going to be used, then they are going to corrupt the sites by adding unneeded pictures. Or they want to look saavy by having all these neat little pictures and graphics, but in the end only start giving their friends viruses and trojans because of their inability to understand the coding that they are copying and pasting into their editors.

Myspace is Mycrap. But its not so much about the security thing. Parents allow their children to hop on the net and when they aren't even knowledgeable about what is out there. Course, their children probably know about 100-fold what they know. So of course when it comes to security and actual stalkers, they jump on the bandwagon of freaking out. I have to say though, that any child, teen, adult that places personal information on a public site, no matter if they have it protected to be only seen by "friends" is still a mother f****n idiot.

Let me get off my rant. What do I like about social networking? I like the fact that no matter how I cannot get in touch with some friends via phone or person, I know they will get my message if I send it to them on Myspace/Facebook. What I also like is the bullitens....well some of them. Take a look:

Take a look at the second one down! LOOK AT IT!

Oh and then I always like to keep track of my shows and some of my other friends.

Another one of the social networking sites I use is Facebook. Facebook used to be a bit more protective, then they sold out. It started out as a college social site. That was cool, then it went to a School (highschool and college) networking site. Then it went public. Granted you have to be a friend to see anyone's profiles its still a bit over rated now-a-days. Facebook though is a bit annoying now, more than myspace, merely because of the damn applications.

Now, myspace/facebook/friendster/etc is not the only networking site. Any of the forum sites that are used are networking social site. Some that I use are: Helios RO and Gaiaonline.

But this week merely asked for Mycrap right? Well I went though myspace. Will it be helpful for libraries? No. I doubt it. I think it will bring in more trouble than its worth and with the controversies that it starts now-a-days....yeah, lets step away from that idea.

Will I be giving anyone here my Myspace account? No. Granted if you knew how, you could find me anywhere. Thats my secret, shhh.