Monday, September 17, 2007
Myspace/ Social Networking
It seems like in today's time that everyone and their mother has a myspace. I first came across Myspace in 2005 and have been using it since than. It is said that Myspace gets more page views than Google, with Facebook. I just recently became apart of Facebook but I find that more difficult to use and never take the time to login to it. Social Networking offers a variety of ways to communicate with others through chat, messaging, email, video, voice chat, file sharing, blogging, and discussion groups. I prefer email or messaging over chat. It's an easy way to keep in touch with friends that have gone off to college or family that has moved away. Saves on postage and a long distance phone bill. I also wanted to add a personal experience I had on phishing. It happened through Myspace, and I'm not exactly how people go about making them but one day I noticed that bulletins were being posted under my name about adult sites and comments were randomly being left on peoples pages. I was told that if you login in on Myspace when there is a red bar above the login square that, that is someone copying your information to get inside your page. But in order to fix the problem I just had to go back in and change my password.
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Myspace is the most popular social network out there. It is nice for keeping in touch with friends. My biggest problem with it and the reason I don't use it any more is because of the weird things and people that were on it.
Regardless of any social network that is used there will be unwanted issues that many users will have to deal with in order to keep using that network. Reminds me of the Internet Laws assignment, maybe if there were stronger laws put in place it would help prevent some of these things from happening.
Myspace Was great when it first came out. Since then it has become a huge advertisement and a great gateway for spammers. Many create fake accounts that try and lure you onto their sites. Another issue is that some people post way to much information about themselves and are at risk by doing so. How do you feel about the way Myspace has changed over the past few years? Do you see it happening to Facebook?
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