Class Discussion Thursday 8/30

Reference: Time Magazine http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1655722,00.html


Summary: Lev Grossman discusses how Facebook.com is what the internet was originally hoped to be when it first became widely used. How you could be yourself on-line and not have to come up with some fake personality to impress other people.

Reactions: In the article Grossman says that Facebook is a network with the net, where people can know everything about others who are also on it. I personally am uneasy about the amount of information that is so readily available in Facebook. The News Feed is the biggest problem I believe. Not only does it basically track every one of your friends moves but it also tells you exactly what they did. If a friend posted on someone's wall it tells you what the post was, word for word. Yeah it's ok for your friends to see things like that but if there's someone you don't know seeing all that information then it could be bad for you. For instance when in class my teacher said that employers where now logging on and checking applicant's Facebook pages, that can be a big problem especially if one of your friends posts a picture of you doing something that wouldn't reflect well on yourself and you did not know about it. The reason why this is a problem is because there's a link in Facebook that shows all pictures with your "tagged" in them. I personally don't use Facebook all that often. I just use it to check any messeges my friends who use it frequently may have sent me.

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