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Is Myspace and Social Networks really aiding to a generation that doesn't think twice about privacy? I think the articles tend to say that this is in fact what is happening. I would disagree that they are devoid of the notion of privacy, but they just seem to be more open about their privacy then past generations. I think the reason is because the generation we live in has grown up on computers and the internet, so unlike past generations, it doesn't seem alien to put ourselves out there. More than that, I think that its a matter of the internet allows people an easier way to get attention. Doing something like showing yourself in public seems like a much different thing in practice, but in reality you're doing the same thing. This goes back to the popular notion that the internet is somehow private, where these people are creating little groups of friends online through these sites. The big difference is that if it isn't set up to be private, everyone can see what is going on in these groups.

I just signed up for Facebook during this class, but it wasn't like I was unaware of SNS. I think that is something that is impossible to escape from, like the articles suggest that it is becoming apart of your resume. You are putting yourself out there, so what you put out there should be thought about. To come back to an issue the class has been struggling over, does your personal profile online truly represent the person you are in meatspace? Are those things you list under your interests really something you like or do you list them to create a preconceived notion of yourself? I think above all, do people need to put everything about themselves online? I remember using instant messenger, and there would be friends on my list that would never actually talk on there, instead they would just have away messages that told other people what they were doing, even though they were probably just sitting at their computer. It seems strangely similar to SNS where people seem to think people want to know every little thing they are doing. Maybe people do, maybe it has become so much fun to be an internet voyeur and lurk people's profiles for fun. People who make SNS profiles may want to be surveyed by other people and have a sense of attention online that they may not get in real life. This sort of thing just seems like a waste of time to me and frankly, a little creepy.