Well, the new Internet is here. Wikipedia, Myspace, Facebook, Answers, YouTube. AOL Instant Messaging Away Mesasages were not good enough, now we share our daily activities on social networking sites, and our knowledge on social information gathering sites. Is it good or bad for people? Is it great teenages and adults are all sharing their lives on a Myspace profile, or does it makes our lives much more complex?
2007-02-17 12:28:53 · 4 answers · asked by ? 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
It can make things much more complex. Try a search on the internet for your name, and see what it turns up. There have been stories where people have been not considered for a job because the person going to hire them did a search for the candidate's name and found something online they didn't like. And it is pretty much legal because everything on the Internet that doesn't require a login is public.
People should really be more careful of what they put online, but what they put online is up to them. If they want everyone in the world to know what they did last night, that is up to them. And it has also been noted, that anything online usually stays online somewhere, in archive sites, search engine caches, etc...
2007-02-17 12:36:53 · answer #1 · answered by Bryan A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate MySpace. It's full of tweens and teens who don't know what to go do with themselves when it goes down, I think we all remember that activity on Answers a few days ago.
I hate Facebook. YouTube shares videos so that's not really social networking per se... Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia which is a good thing (for the most part). I hate AIM...
Gtalk is the only IM client worth it, you can control who you want to and don't want to talk to on there better.
Answers and Wikipedia are good, YouTube is okay. MySpace and FaceBook are just complete wastes of time.
2007-02-17 20:34:16 · answer #2 · answered by conradj213 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Internet is good for the world.
Communication strikes down fear
of the unknown, and false propaganda
issued by would-be dictators.
2007-02-17 20:46:10 · answer #3 · answered by kyle.keyes 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all good. Well, mostly good.
2007-02-17 20:36:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋