Social Networking old school

With Myspace was once at the peak of social networking among users including ages from middle school to adults, they are now on the edge of becoming nothing. What is the most scary thing about MySpace is that theres really now way of telling who is who. 50% of users don't even know who they add when accepting a friend request. One of the glories of the site was meeting strangers and making new friends. But that is also a dangerous thing when it happens on a day-to-day basis. Pedophiles have been have a much easier job finding children. With a nice picture, information about you, and your age, older gentleman can target younger children for their dirty deeds.

On the plus side, law enforcement have been able to use this type of public exposure to bust people. They have creeped on people's profiles to find out where and when illegal activity has taken place. In the article "Social Networking Websites" criminals have often have the tendency to post online their handiwork and brag about it. Although people may feel unsafe with the police monitering the internet, their highest priority has been public safety. CBS did a show called "To Catch a Predator" with a programmer talking to older guys pretending to be a 13 year old girl ,trying to get them to come to a house which is set up with cameras and police hidden inside and out. When they come inside the house, an actor says that she'll be right back. Then the host of the show comes out and talks to him. When the predator exits the house, the local police force arrest him.

I have made fake accounts to mess around with friends. Nothing that can be considered identity fraud. So called cyber bullying has been apart of every social network. Bullying can be anything from threats to teasing. I was once a "victim" of this. What makes it something to laugh at is how anyone can be a bully, siting behind a keyboard typing mean crap. But others may take it more seriously than others.

The New Tube

Over the last decade, the internet has grown to become one of the most used pieces of your daily lives. Virtually almost every aspect of our lives has been moved to the internet; shopping, socializing, and even watching TV. FaceBook is now our way of talking to friends, seeing whats up, and whose birthday it is. But there YouTube has become a site that is now more popular than any other. Originally, it was more for home videos, funny clips, and commercials. Now most every new song has a music video which is immediately posted on YouTube. Many kids upload video clips of theirselves doing stupid things such as:


Others do insanely stupid miraculous tricks like running from the police and evading with some amazing stunt.






I personally do not upload videos for others enjoyment. I DO however watch many videos a day; on average 10 videos. Most of the videos I watch are music videos, and random remixes of songs that can't be found anywhere else.

Another thing that i like about YouTube is how the content is somewhat censored and isn't provocative. YouTube has an entire team thats dedicated to reviewing videos so that it doesn't turn into some filthy site. However some of the videos that are for older kids, require you to have an account so that you can watch a video, and agree to that you are about 18 years old.

The only thing I have began to despise is how every video, the screen gets violated with an add no one cares for. Also, before many clips begin, an advertisement for a TV show or new car comes on. Being that an average video is 3 minutes long, about 10% of it is spent in more things that few people care about. Despite hating these adds, I can't blame YouTube for displaying them, being that they are getting millions for them.

There's no doubt that YouTube continues to grow. As it said in the Future of YouTube, The YouTube reader reading in the epilogue section, YouTube has announced their Beta television. Being that the company is based on people being to upload videos, latest news, and TV/Movie trailers, YouTube is a website that will continue to expand and draw in more traffic and money.
Google buying out YouTube was a great decision.

Even though YouTube is a video website, it still doesn't have all of movies and tv shows. YouTube adheres to legal contracts with companies that have copyrighted production. Other sites, such as Hulu, show TV shows to the public for free.

In the Future of YouTUbe reading, it says that in April 2009, YouTube has officially partnered with Sony to expand their TV and music library.

As it stands, YouTube is one of the top 3 websites used in America, drawing in more ages and diverse people than any other video site.