Blog # 2
An amazing communication technology called social networking became a huge online hit as I was growing up. I remember when I was growing up I had a MySpace account, and then Facebook came in and changed the game. I believe I was in middle school when Facebook was a huge thing. It was crazy to me, as well as my parents, that you could find and message people so easily. And also, you could start posting things about your life and people could be updated. To this day, my parents are still mesmerized by social networking. I do understand it though because when they were growing up technology was way less advanced than it is now. According to the lecture, social networking sites must allow users 3 things: (1) Construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system – (2) Articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection – (3) View and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. Many social networking cites nowadays include F...