Post 9 Response. Only Connect

It's smart of Myspace and Facebook to want to apply Metclafe's law, but with as many users as they have it's almost impossible. Because they have so many users it's nearly impossible for it to ever be completely safe. People are still careless with the information they put on their personal profiles and Metclafe is aware of that. The europeans are even aware of that. They understand the dangers of online social life, while american teenagers still do not. What will it take to get them to learn? Why haven't they still? Haven't they heard the scary stories of the sex offenders?

Post 9. Only Connect.

When Myspace booted 80,000 sex offenders off network, they started lurking on Facebook instead. Any online community with 220 million users is bound to attract cyber-criminals. Some people are trying to find a way to apply Metcalfe's law which states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of devices connected to it. They want to find out how many people are actually using Facebook; an exact number. More people are becoming aware of the dangers of Myspace and Facebook. In europe they have smaller social networking sites used for a more professional reason; mostly online resumes. (LinkedIn - 38 million users and Xing - 6 million users.) These european sites are used for professional reasons. The creaters of LinkedIn have limited users to only 3,000 contacts so the dangers are limited.

Final Focus

In writing my Blog Analysis essay I found that I didn't have a lot of information that came from my original thought before I started researching. I chose this topic because I was interested in how teenagers of today are becoming more and more dependent on online social use. I wanted to learn more about that, and have more knowledge on the obsession of it all. Are teenagers really getting obsessive? If they are, is it a serious condition? Getting more information about teenagers and the online social life will make my final oral presentation that much better, because it was my original interest; it would make the presentation stronger. Instead of focusing on finding information on what I was first aiming for, though, I took my research in a whole new direction; who actually are the ones using the Internet usefully? During the research I came across a lot of good information about all sorts of different people using social networking for all kinds of different reasons. I realized in my response posts, though, I didn't post what I was thinking, but I was indeed thinking. Ideas were emerging in my head as I was writing the Blog Analysis. They weren't new ideas, because I had though them up before writing all the response posts, but I didn't post those ideas in my response.

Finding information about teenagers and their semi-obsession is what I want to focus on in my next two articles. I feel a need to give my original thoughts some attention. Doing so will make my final project of a higher quality. On another note, one major concept I want to draw my attention towards is the future. No one can for tell the future exactly, but knowing what could happen and what is expected to happen would be valuable information that will make my presentation even stronger.

With the posts I have left I am going to focus on finding why teenagers are so obsessed with social networking. What's the thrill? I am also going to research where online social networking will be headed in the next few years. Will it continue to climb higher? Will more and more people be dependent on it? Or will it begin to decline when more and more people become aware of the dangers? Finding this information will tie up all the loose ends I would have in my final presentation.