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Re: Social Networking: Risks vs. Rewards

Tabu — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:43:04 -0000

I joined Myspace too late and by the time I was talked into joining Facebook I found out about Twitter. What is with this infantile insistence on informing everyone what you are doing at all times of the day? Maybe knowing that others know the mundane details of your life makes you feel temporarily less alone? I think this increased rate of suicide may relate to the fact that we are un-learning the ability to truly connect with other human beings on a deep, emotional level.

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Re: Social Networking: Risks vs. Rewards

Azazelle — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:21:39 -0000

To my mind society should take responsibility for the teenage suicides, and doesn't matter if it exists in real life or online. In both cases these are real people.

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Re: Social Networking: Risks vs. Rewards

Noot — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:39:47 -0000

There are pros and cons

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sinema — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:31:14 -0000

yes man, you're right.. ;)

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Brapppp x — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:56:31 -0000

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Miesha Jackson — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:59:45 -0000

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Henry — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:43:59 -0000

There are pros and cons, but mostly pros at this point. It makes it very easy to reconnect with people from your past, which can be beneficial. However, having too much information about your personal life out there can have its downsides.

Re: Social Networking: Risks vs. Rewards

Martha Mihaly — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:09:22 -0000

I have to agree with huxleyboyce. As adults, the benefits of being connected in social networks to people that you like are immediately visible. The downside can be that those people you've left behind in life are back again.
Too many users aren't educated enough to block friendship requests that can be harmful, or to block friends who become abusive. Then, there is the always the prolem with kids that the subtle bullying that has occurred at school becomes rampant online. Kids live and breathe with their peer groups - at home (nights and weekends) on the computer, during the day at school. How does someone escape from the abuse hurled from all directions? Expecting the service providers, and network developers to provide the shields as about as realistic as asking teenagers to abstain from sex....

Re: Social Networking: Risks vs. Rewards

Wayne Smallman — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:22:37 -0000

Sadly, this topic segues all too neatly with a recent article of mine: "Information as a weapon" (http://www.blahblahtech.com...

Knowledge has always been dangerous in the wrong hands. But mass communication makes such things even more dangerous on a global scale.

"The internet is a reflection of our society,.. If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society."
~ Vint Cerf

Re: Social Networking: Risks vs. Rewards

Independent — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:18:15 -0000

Put simply, I don't think people would use them if they didn't see a perceived benefit. I guess that's why I don't use Myspace/Bebo/Facebook..lol

Re: Social Networking: Risks vs. Rewards

huxleyboyce — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:48:51 -0000

YOu are sure connected more with people. the downside is you run into old high school and college classmates. Sometimethings are bettter left in the past.

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Lapp — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:45:20 -0000

Another reason we are happy we are 18+. Dealing with children is quite dangerous!

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Battlestar — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:37:16 -0000

It's more and more investigated novadays and the governments should consider about this issue...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...