When it comes to cyberculter I do not have a clue about it. I do not get on line and go into chat rooms so I will not have a lot to write about. First I don't even have a my space account or a facebook account. The only reason I have a blogger account is for English pretty sad. When some people go into chat rooms how do you know who your really talking to? When children have my space accounts why are some parents not worried about pedifiles trying to talk to them? We have so many way's of comunicating in todays society other than the telephone or in person there is just so many things that can go wrong. In class we discussed how people get more personal online than in person. How do we know that who we are communicating with? Is that person really themselves or someone trying to be sombodyelse? anybody can go online looking for a date and give you a picture of sombodyelse and say that's them. People can tell you anything you may want to hear and you start to beleive what they are saying when in realitythey can be as I wrote before a pedifile looking for young children, drug dealers, even criminals. I don't understand how some people can say it gets more personal online or in chat rooms when we don't even know 100% that person even exsits in the real world. From what I just wrote people can see my veiws on cyberculter. I do not agree with it!!
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I totally agree that when kids get online on their myspace accounts they have no idea who they are talking to. It's sad that my little sister comes home from school and tells stories that officer friendly told her about little girls using myspace and being raped, murdered or something of that nature. The internet is a scary place sometimes.
She's right.. you NEVER know who you are talking to online or in chat rooms, and thats a perfect example of why I never go in chat rooms, because about 90% theres always going to be some kind of perverts saying inappropiate things and will say anything for you to get to talk to them. I sometimes wish the Internet was never created!
You know, for somebody who does not have a clue about cyberculture, you have contributed successfully in class discussion thus far, have created a web site, and have written two successful blogs.
I agree with you on the point that people should exercise caution in online interactions. But I would also point out that I have made some very good friends online who became my friends in RL (real life).
There have been studies done on pedophiles and social networking sites. Yes, it happens, but the overwhelming majority of young social networkers recognize trouble when they see it online. Consider the number of people on social networking sites - it's literally millions. The percentage of bad things that happen in relation to the number of people online is really very small.
I don't mean to offend you, but you can tell by your post you don't have a lot of experience in hardcore 'cyber culture'. I didn't sign up for it, it just kind of happened. I started playing a strategy game online, and another nice player who was a great teammate (saved my butt a couple times) asked if I had a myspace. I replied "Whats a myspace?" So he sent me the link, and then I saw his picture. In my other post I mentioned that I started posting to my first forum because I am a designer and need help. Its something you don't really realize your part of until after your in it.
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