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What is Facebook?
Facebook is a social networking website
that allows users to create and customize
their own profiles with photos, videos,
and information about themselves.
Friends can browse the profiles of other
friends and write messages on their
pages (Tech Terms, 2008)
Addicting
Facebook Chat Allows you to talk to your friends
who are currently online
Games Farmville Café World
Games
Farmville Process of
creating your own Farm and managing it.
Café World Creating your
own café and serving your customers
http://vator.tv/images/attachments/020909121934gameBig_farmville.jpg
http://www.insidesocialgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/cafe-world-1.png
Risky Information
Social networking sites, such as Facebook, allow users to post unnecessary information such as the user's home address, telephone numbers, course schedule, as well as pictures. These should be considered private information. This takes advantage of your privacy and it lets the guard down for stalking and also sexual predators (Whittaker A., 2009).
Personal Profile
Contains a picture of you You chose which one and may update it
School Achievements What type of degree you have
Locating information Home town Current location
Age and Sex
Online Predators
13 years and older Facebook does have an age limit of 13
years but all it is a button
Uncontrollable It is impossible to control what others
post about you which makes it risky
Controlling your Information You can only control yourself
Stay away from online bullying
Posting statuses No one cares what you do every second
Writing on walls Keep it aproppriate
Inappropriate posts
Pictures Nude Pictures
Drinking Pictures
Other illegal acts shown through pictures Statuses
Teenagers make them insulting
Useless information
Who cares?
“Jaime” is ‘Still very sick… Maybe it’s a
stomach virus… I hate these late nights
by the toilet!’
“Bryan” has a credit score of 890.
As for “Mary,” she’s got “cramps” like
you wouldn’t believe. And they’re sharing that news with all their
“friends” on Facebook.
Sexual Harassment
There is a mother in southern California who is fighting for her fourteen year old child’s rights. Some of his classmates at his school created an account in his name and posted inappropriate items. They posted obscure pictures, racist comments, and many more unsuitable posts. (William L., 2009).
Technology
Facebook can now be accessed on cell phones Very distracting
Becoming more addicting
Sexting
References
Lee W. (2009, September 25). Facebook smears spur mom to sue. Chicago
Tribune,p. 1.11. Retrieved January 21, 2010, from Chicago Tribune. (Document
ID: 1865997231).
Whittaker, A. (2009). Social networking sites are the future. Points of View,
Retrieved from
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76-318f30516888%40sessionmgr4&bdata=JnNpdGU9cG92LWxpdmU%3d#db=p
wh&AN=28675321
Gustafson, K. (2009). Innapropriate facebook statuses. Retrieved from
http://blog.timesunion.com/kristi/files/2009/04/facebookstatus1.jpg&imgrefurl=ht
tp://blog.timesunion.com/kristi/10626/inappropriate-facebook-status-update/