Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Social Network Reflective Essay

              Most of the people now in days try to figure out how to escape their own world. They would try to escape their own world because of problems that they might of have in live. We make virtual worlds where we know we will be there without having to be worrying about anything. It so awesome to be able to have a place to escape at times. Places like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and so on. Their are many sites now that we could go to and be their without being able to remember our problems. Hey I have my own Facebook! I sometimes do not pay much attention to what I post up and now that I have read the article I think I am going to be cautious from now on. I would not like to be haunted by a site like how I read in the article. Now I know I have to be cautious of what I post and what I say. I am kinda a gamer and I use to have an avatar from this one site called IMVU thats what I think its called. Well actually I do play a game called Runescape at times. Like the article Virtual Self said that one of the gamers was a girl and people would question her about her knowledge or skills.
              I not only have a Facebook but I have a Myspace, Twitter, Imvu and Formspringme which I do not really use. I have a Runescape and use it at times thats a place where you are a avitar and get to play with people you do not know and get to meet them. There My name is another name I would have liked to have or been named because it is unique. But on other sites such as facebook I have my nickname there. There are stalkers that get information there by the posts that others make when they dont think and relize that others may be able to get their information.
             I learned many new things about Facebook. I never new that Facebook was launched in a Harvard University only site. It slowly expanded to welcome people first threw out varieties of different universities. Then high school students were welcomed to this site but they say it was not easy to get a Facebook because you would have to be invited first. Collage students would think Facebook was the cool thing so they started to use it. After then when Facebook opened to everyone it was easier for high school student to join. They said that danger began when young students would start to talk to others who were older or the opposite which would be when older students would talk to younger teens which caused harm for everyone. I learned thall of this in my English class with Ms. Enzsar and with my fellow classmates.

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