magazine/newspaper resource

http://www.nytimes.com

Credited source through the nytimes shows new source of police through the internet,  having a so called "virtual" police force that is supported by facebook to help secure and track down stalkers and other teenagers that signs of discriminationg actions.  

The info on this is limited and the outcome of positives is just as equal as the negitive out comes for having the police to secure social networking,  police already trying to keep society safe and have order now with the internet having being watch by the police the outcome could either have negitive affects just as positive ones towards the facebook users.  Will the security be worth the lack of privacy.

new thesis statement

Theme:  Myspace and Facebook are used by many with life threating issues that involve young teens today that need to be resolved to limit future lives being threatened from mental and sexual abuse (stalkers) by increasing age verification security.

Newspaper resource

MySpace mom cleared of felony charges; 'Compromise'; Woman guilty of misdemeanor in teen's suicide

Dan Whitcomb, Alex Dobuzinskis. National Post. Don Mills, Ont.: Nov 27, 2008. pg. A.2

This newspaper article shows valid points on how security on myspace is inefficent to keep people using myspace as an actual tool to kill.  Shows a simple prank turn sinister, this shows that myspace should keep closer watch on messages and patterns of messages.

research questions

The security made to protect the young users from being abused are being abused by the users themselves.

- Group of girls in middle school played a prank on one other girl who was an outcast

- people using facebook to manipultate themselves as a person who they would like (as in a relationship)

- have some requried information setting that each individual can setup for their own protection or comfort when meeting random unknown people.

Wiki entry on social networking

Wiki Definition on social networking:

A well developed and indepth response/effort to the term "social networking" but a broad and vague one, defining the term "social networking" isn't easy without giving an explicit example of what social networking really is.  Many would understand the definition Wikipedia gives on social networking but only because people have used or atleast expierence or have been exposed to social networking programs such as Facebook or myspace.  The people of the senior generation today who might not use computers and know the many capabilities technology has today would only have a relitive idea on what social networking really is and how it is used today.  Simply stating that knowing what social networking is based solely on Wiki definition of the word would only give a partial understanding of the term.

Thesis statement on Facebook and myspace

Thesis statement: Myspace and Facebook's security specifically goes to great lengths to protect its user's privacy from other, but not realizing that the security itself violates the privacy of the users.

http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/security_insider/2007/12/privacy_problems_with_social_n.php

Retrieved: April 9th, 2009

http://oraclelibrarian.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/further-facebook-privacy-problems/

Retrieved: April 9th, 2009

Assessment on Youtube

note details about the entire site & describe breifly

Youtube like Myspace, Twitter, LinkedIn etc. is used for communication around the world, but mainly for visual and video expressions of opinion on many topics.  It includes many services same as Myspace and Twitter of having blogs as videos and uses responses to those blogs with more videos and with written responses if too short of a response for a video.

assess how it is used

Youtube runs the same way as a typical Facebook, Myspace would work you have your own page of favorites, friends, playlists and can keep track to whoever you communicated with and vise versa.  Youtube is compadable with myspace and Twitter for blogs if a video is so desired.  Which makes every thing an easy access to responses that are similar to one article or oppositions to the other. 

asses if its useful or not

 With so many that watch and uses Youtube for communicating many use Youtube as a source to post valid information for everyone to see, many claim that youtube is a not reliable when it comes to supporting ones arguement, but with so many users on the Youtube its more of an incentive to post valid information on such a widely used service.

access if private information about the user is apparent

The only flaw in Youtube is the private information isn't easily notice or controled through other accounts, such as Myspace or Facebook.  Despite it is possible to make information private its not a clear as say Myspace.