MYSPACE.

It is weird to think how MySpace use to be the talk of everything, it was never and will never be as big as facebook, but as we all check our facebook's at least once a day that is just how MySpace use to be. MySpace use to be a way for me to show my individually through what layout I had and a few pictures of my self, plus of course my top 8 best friends. MySpace is now trying to keep up with facebook but isn’t doing a good job of it. MySpace is now taking their one thing they had over facebook and that's music. Music could be played on anyone's MySpace and it could be anyone. The person did not have to be famous to have his or her music on MySpace, which relates back to YouTube in a sense that anyone can do it. 

Social networking has its positive things and of course with every good thing has its negatives. The positive things are that it gives everyone a chance to express their opinion and feelings about life. On Facebook,MySpace and twitter you can express how you feel within seconds and the world would know. On the other hand, their are things that do not need to be out in public. I do believe the Internet is the fingerprint of the 21st century because it is the new way of doing everything. According to the article fingerprinting of the 21st century it gives examples of ways the cops are using it to solve crimes and jobs are using it to look at future new workers. The negative side of this that anyone can see what is posted on these social networking websites including people that you don't want to see. 

Bullying is something that has been going on for years and will continue to go on, but I do people social networking is making this issue a million times worst. The bullying that use to only take place in teenagers is now taking place in every age range of people. It is so easy to bully someone on the Internet because you can have a fake identify and also don’t have to say these things in person. Now a day, everyone has a camera on their phone and it is extremely easy to take a picture of someone doing something then posts it on their social networking site for all of their friends to see. In the news a few years ago, someone posted a video of his or her roommate having sex with a guy. This roommate did not ask permission of the other roommate if this material was okay to be on the internet and the within a few days of his friends and family seeing the video, he committed suicide because he would not live with the fact that world knew he was gay. These types of stories happen all the time, when bullying gets out of control. The good thing is there are people checking our facebook all the time to make sure inappropriate things are not on them, but it is a scary thought to realize how much our lives are revolving around social networking.