5. I left MySpace because:
1. My parents made me
2. Facebook became prominant
3.It did not deliver what it promised for music
4.I didn’t leave MySpace: never there
5. I didn’t leave MySpace: still there
8. TheParentsEdgecom. Giving parents the edge in a tech
savvy teen world! How to delete a Myspace account.
Weiki how: how to get a
myspace without your parents
finding out
11. MySpace’s biggest problem?
NewsCorps didn’t know, didn’t care what they were doing
Lack of focus, didn’t deliver entertainment values and purposes
Loss of general audience to FB
Lack of control over creeps
Bad publicity
16. What should be done about subReddits and subRedditors who practice sexual and othe
I want authorities to police the creeps and remove them.
I’m a First Amendment purist. Let the communities take care of themselves.
Live and let live. To each his/her own.
17. Read for Thurday class activity:
http://gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the-biggest-troll-on-the-w
Read article as well as comments
Thursday’s class will focus on this case and cover several social media concepts
18. Assignment for Sunday:
Learn about Stumbleupon
Is it a blog? Search engine? What? How did it become a significant social
network?
What are some of its best features? Worst? What function does it serve in the
world of SM?
How does it measure up against some other social networks you can name?
What are some typical or special examples of StumbleUpon results, either those
you can find or from stories on the Internet.
File 200-word s stand-alone reflection post on FB. I’ll be looking to see you
engage others’ posts to construct conversations and friendly debate.
Editor's Notes
He wrote 1,000 lines of Javascript designed to compare MySpace profile names and reported zip codes with the names and zip codes listed in the U.S. Department of Justice online sex-offender database. He set up the program to search the lists for 46 U.S. states and ran the code on the MySpace database servers housing member profiles. What he came up with was disheartening: Of the 1 million profiles scanned, he found more than 700 registered sex offenders, almost 500 of whom had committed crimes against children. And at the time of his reporting the results, he had only analyzed one-third of the data generated by his program.
One of the sex offenders Poulsen uncovered had been actively compiling a list of young friends and sending the underage boys sexually explicit, private messages. He has since been arrested, although police were only able to charge him with attempted child endangerment since he never successfully made physical contact with any of the young boys he was communicating with. According to Poulsen, there were several alarming communications found on the pages of other registered sex offenders, but for every one who appeared to be indulging their predilections, eight seemed to be doing just what pretty much every other MySpace member is doing: talking about their lives, posting funny photos, reporting wedding and job promotions and blogging about their interests.
Thousands Of MySpace Sex Offender Refugees Found On Facebook
ERICK SCHONFELDTuesday, February 3rd, 2009 Comments
MySpace is in the spotlight today because it revealed that 90,000 registered sex offenders have been kicked off its site in the past two years. But where did all of those sex offenders go? Some evidence suggests that a portion of them are now on Facebook.
Arctic monkeys 2007, site created by fans, claimed didn’t know what MS was
