DANGER OF FACEBOOK

1. NAME: ADAMU MOHAMMAD BULANGU
REG: DP/IT/13/017A
DEPARTMENT: COMPUTER SCIENCE
COURSE: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

2. WHAT IS FACEBOOK
• Facebook is an online social networking service. Its
name comes from a colloquialism for the directory given
to students at some American universities. Facebook
was founded on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg
with his college roommates and fellow Harvard
University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum,
Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.The founders had
initially limited the website's membership to Harvard
students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston
area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It
gradually added support for students at various other
universities before it opened to high-school students,
and eventually to anyone aged 13 and over. Facebook
now allows anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old
to become a registered user of the website.

3. DANGERS OF FACEBOOK
• Posting on Facebook and other social networks is a favorite pastime for
teens and 20somethings. It's a great way for families to keep in touch - but
recent headlines have yielded some caveats that have nothing to do with
the usual “predators lurk everywhere” issues. Here are five Facebook
dangers your college kid or young adult may never have thought about.
• Facebook and college admissions: It's a bad idea to post dicey photos or
racy prose on social networking sites, no matter how private teens may
think they are. According to a 2012 study by Kaplan, 27% of college
admissions officers routinely do Google searches on applicants and 26%
check Facebook - and 35% found posts and pictures that reflected poorly
on those prospective students. Those are startling numbers. When Kaplan
first started doing this study in 2008, just 10% of college admissions
officers even bothered to look. Now they're not only looking to see what
kind of person an applicant is, they're keeping their eyes peeled for
inappropriate behavior - provocative poses, hard partying photos and
illegal behavior, yes, but also cheating, plagiarism, vulgarity and what
many officials described as things that made them "wonder."

4. DANGER CONT.
• Grad school and careers: Business and medical school
admissions officers surf social networking sites in even greater
numbers than their undergrad brethren. So do prospective
employers, none of whom are impressed by posts that holler
“Par-tay! Woo hoo!”
• Fellow students: It’s not just admissions officers doing the
surfing. Some upper classmen at the University of Redlands
were so incensed by partying comments made by several
incoming freshmen on the Redlands Facebook group site, they
showed the posts to college officials. College administrators
said they called the teens’ parents a few weeks before school
began to have a little talk.

5. DANGER CONT.
• Child pornography charges: Posting or sending photos of
oneself or friends in scanty clothing or sexually suggestive
poses may be a popular pastime among the younger set,
but if any of the people posing are under 18, the practice
may result in child pornography charges. There have been
several such cases, including an Ohio 15-year-old who was
charged with child pornography after sending nude cell
phone images of herself to friends. At the time, officials in
Licking County considered charging recipients of those
images as well. It's one thing to be charged with sending or
receiving child pornography as a minor, but those charges
in adult court may carry not only prison time, but a lifetime
of registering as a sex offender.
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