Help! That blogger is touching me!

Another grotesque and morbid danger that users, particularly children, are unaware of is the threat of potential online predators. Yes, pedophiles not only exist in the physical world, but many of these individuals will slither their way into the chat room with an unsuspecting fourteen year old. "The anonymity of social networking sites make it easy for unscrupulous people to target young teens and engage them in harmful conversations"(L123).
As such, if a predator were to obtain certain information that is pertinent to their unruly search, then that unruly person could be on the hunt for that same oblivious teen from that chat room, meanwhile, that teen would be completely unaware that they were being followed. Privacy controls help to alleviate this issue, but it is no guarantee that a user is going to be safe from danger.
 

Cyber Bullying: The new school beat down

Cyber-bullying is a terrible and unfortunate phenomenon that is linked to not only Social Networking media, but other forms of communication as well. It s interesting to note, however, that most of these attacks should be regarded as passive-aggressive and nothing life threatening, and when that does happen, it is a rare occasion that usually will take long to reconcile. Albeit physical contact is rare, the psychological problems linked to those users are still present and may take for some time to heal. such attacks include but not limited to publicizing personal information to other users, threatening messages, posting embarrassing content that a user may have, and rumor spreading. These prickly and downright inhumane acts are not only effective, but the consequences that can follow may be very dire. Yes, just when you thought that the techniques of the archaic schoolyard bullying were just that, bullies have crafted yet another diabolical method for harming other users.

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What a bummer, lol. I guess I'll tweet about losing control of my life

Yes, your boss found out about that twitter, and well, your life is in the hoops because of that tweet of yours. oh well, just hope that other potential employers need not find this information. As it turns out, The key concern to using social networking services is that your personal information is no longer private. Sure, it may seem private to other users, but the information is completely exploited by the site owner who has complete control over their site. yup, another loss for social network users. The world is cold and desolate because your employer found your personal information, and based on that information, gave you the boot. Well, that tweeting of yours could have been alleviated had it been for self control of what information you post. But alas, it can not be helped at this point. The sensible thing to do would be to patch things up with your employer and see what can happen to your work position.  

The Antisocial Network

Ah, yes. The old social networking site. The workhorse of the social internet that keeps people of different cultures and backgrounds connected to one another. The very thing that keeps a person from getting up out of that computer chair and actually meeting that same person in real life. Maybe that sounds insane, but that is just what is happening, people who use social networking regularly will find it more convenient to just use a computer  and chat with someone online instead of actually meeting that person face to face. I know, I know, this is all just absurdity to most, but in reality, less social contact with people is quite harmful to that person who constantly utilize the services of social networking sites. for example, let's say that you decided to be humorous one day and you posted something that was potentially disparaging to you, but you thought of it as hilarious. Well, remember that tweet where you said that, well, you know. Yeah, well it turns out that your boss found that while using his twitter account and, well, he found that post to be offensive.

The Blog By Soldiers, for Soldiers

Greetings fellow interweb readers! If you scurried your way into this blog, then you were either bored with Facebook temporarily, or just had better things to do, but were just not bothered to do those things and instead decided to find an AWESOME blog. My name is Private Miguel Benavides and I am a soldier for the US Army National Guard. It is best just to read a lot of this blog and absorb as much information as you can absorb into those massive brains of yours.

My topic is going to be about how enamored with online gaming and social networking. It seems like it is a pile of fun and games, but there are sinister forces at work here, mostly making computer users fat and lazy, but I digress. This will be the first of several posts that will entail burying me in all of the internet information that all of you Facebook and XBOX Live users are too lazy to delve into. So let us have at it!