Internet

I searched "social networking sites" and counted 184 sites (you wrote "social working sites" on the yellow sheet and I assume you meant "networking"). Of these I've heard of Classmates, Crunchyroll, Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, Last.fm, LinkedIn, MySpace, Xanga, and Yelp, Inc. I've never heard of deviantART.com and apparently it's a site where users can upload artwork, much like a Youtube video, where others can write comments below it. Instead of videos you post pictures - most of which were done by computer animation, and a slideshow is available to page through a batch of someone's pictures. It looks like an interesting site that I might thinking about browsing through myself.

Personally I used to use MySpace, but those days are over. I have a Flickr profile but I never use it, though I use the website to search for pictures. I stopped using myspace because I got bored of it and saw the narcissistic nature of it all, and in fact I haven't logged into my profile in about three years. I don't have a Facebook page and never intend to. I'm conscious of the fact these sites can be used to quickly categorize people. For instance if I were to apply for a job, I know the employer would punch my name in, read my page, and make a virdict on what they saw. Most people don't read the entire page and I know people just throw someone into a category by either their pictures or their their numbers, such as their age, height, income, etc. I think people should get to know each other through more genuine means.

Once instance where I got in trouble or was helped out by a social networking site... I can't really think of one but I remember using MySpace years ago and my older sister noticed me and got excited and said "You have a MySpace Page?!". From then on she added me and sent comments, which made me feel a little uncomfortable because I was posting information that I wouldn't normally disclose in real life, and I knew she was probably reading all of it.