An issue that used to be important to my friends and I, although it doesn’t affect me much anymore, is the regulation and prohibition of online networking sites like MySpace. As we all know, many parents prohibit their teens from using these sites, or try to control how they use them. Boyd writes at length about this these regulations, and they become a significant dispute for many families. At the risk of sounding like a teenager who wants to complain about his or her family rules (they’re like the most unfair ever!), I want to champion a more relaxed method of oversight.

in this weeks readings boyd and lange both talk about internet networking sites and the amount of privacy we have on them. sure the internet has its basic privacy settings and what not but do we as users actually have all of the privacy that we actually think we have.

After last weeks class discussion over the three essays we read i found myself at last very frustrated. This frustration stems from the annoyance at the common known fact that Americans are always over reacting- suing each other at the very least bit of disturbance. More specifically my example for this matter would be the Facebook and MySpace privacy policy. It really urges me when people complain about having no privacy when they are the ones putting their information out there on the internet. I mean dah! people are going to have your information if you give it to them! No shit!