Social Networking

In the two readings that we were assigned it talked about how social networking is taking major steps in technology, specifically the Internet. The first reading was about how a school district had made their own version of YouTube mixed with Myspace. I think this was an excellent idea because it lets all of their students get used to using technology and the Internet so it becomes more comfortable hence making it easier for them in the future. They also made it so that only their students, parents, and teachers can access this site and all publications must be approved by a teacher. This is a good and bad thing because it may restrict kids to have the freedom to express themselves due to it being approved by a teacher so if  a teacher feels as though something you might feel strongly about and express yourself strongly about may not be posted due to a few inappropriate remarks. The school system made easy access so that anybody in the district that has access to a computer with the Internet has access to the website regardless of its make, year, and model it may be.

The second reading was about how Second Life and World of Warcraft are taking big strides in the business field and may become apart of peoples everyday jobs. People believe that these social networking games are great because of it having realistic sites and environments in which people interact. They also spoke of it taking strides in the scientific field also, well at least second life. The spoke of even trying to make the currency in the game translate to currency in the real world and vise versa…I personally see a problem with that because I really couldn’t see how that would work out without having any problems because computer hackers could easily steal peoples currency just as they steal peoples identities. But overall I believe that these things will have an impact on our lives eventually when all the kinks finally get ironed out on some of these problems that may arise.

~ by jcurry on January 29, 2008.