Comments on: Cyberculture http://carola.umwblogs.org/2008/01/23/cyberculture/ New blog for New Media class Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:41:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: ajohn1wh http://carola.umwblogs.org/2008/01/23/cyberculture/#comment-4 ajohn1wh Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:18:28 +0000 http://carola.umwblogs.org/2008/01/23/cyberculture/#comment-4 Wow. When you add this to the story of the thirteen-year-old girl we talked about in class, it truly does demand discussion of these social networking sites. Do they really do more good than harm? I honestly don't know, but after all the articles you see on the "dangers of Facebook and MySpace," one really does have to wonder. And, really, when it all boils down, if these sights didn't exist, would the activities/bullying/etc that take place on them really stop or just continue in a different forum? Face-to-face, perhaps? Which is worse? I don't really have any answers to those questions, but articles like this raise them. Wow. When you add this to the story of the thirteen-year-old girl we talked about in class, it truly does demand discussion of these social networking sites. Do they really do more good than harm?

I honestly don’t know, but after all the articles you see on the “dangers of Facebook and MySpace,” one really does have to wonder. And, really, when it all boils down, if these sights didn’t exist, would the activities/bullying/etc that take place on them really stop or just continue in a different forum? Face-to-face, perhaps? Which is worse?

I don’t really have any answers to those questions, but articles like this raise them.

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