Friday, December 14, 2007

Thing 16 - To Myspace or not to Myspace...

I have chosen not to make a presence on Myspace. To be honest I'm having difficulty keeping up with all the other presences I have online, so I'm not going to make another.

I have visited the world of Myspace through my child, and seen what people choose to put online, it looks easy and there's no accountability about what goes in. Adults can represent themselves as children and children can represent themselves as adults, resulting in some potentially dangerous situations.

I believe this is a type of generational reaction, to put things online that shock and gross people out, to impress peers, etc. I have visited sites of kids that I know, and have seen flights of fancy that make me a little nervous. So let the young folks have this site, I'll stick with other methods to "make my presence known".

1 comment:

Cindy Hart said...

Nice post! You don't have to be on MySpace to check it out and see both the potential pitfalls and advantage of this social networking web site.