Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Another site for social networks

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7668788/

I found one extra site that I felt was more reliable that others I Googled, such as the wikipedia one and some blogs. This article was made as a reaction to one mother's horrifying realization that her daughter, along with many other teenagers (“about 6 million”), is exposing personal information and pictures of themselves to strangers and possible predators worldwide. Author Bob Sullivan explains how this is being done through social networks such as myspace and personal blogs. He illustrates the dangers of this practice through facts and statistics as well as through the eyes of a mother who once was saying: “Who can hurt them when you are guarding the front door?", and now claims: "(the Internet) is a bigger opening than the front door."

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