Facebook

Facebook is, very simply a free social networking site. All of the users have to enter some quite personal imformation for example your country and your first and last names and one can even optionally of course upload a photo of themselves. But something that apparently protects someone fomr all of the dodgy stalkers in this world is that one can choose if they want to have it open for public access or only for use of their friends. People can also add friends and send people personel messages and update their personal profiles about themselves so that their friends can know all about their private lives. A student at 21 called Mark Zuckerberg founded this site and it is open to people aged 13 and over, meaning there are over 175000000 users around the world. It has causen a lot of controversy for example aspects of privacy. For example people put all of their pesonal details and then complain about it being on the web but in my opinion it was optional and if one chose to put it on then technically they cannot complain as it was their choice. A different point and case that I am going to use is that of one of my favoutie footballers called ALESsandro Del Piero, a famous Italian Footballer who plays for Juventus. It was apparently assumed that he was suing face book as someone had created a page of him and had associated him with Nazi Propaganda. IN my opinion these sites have advantages and disadvantages, and if one does something that they either should not have or did not realise the information that they were giving away they shouls very much have to live with the consequences that they will have to face for the rest of their lives.

My Digital Identity

Though my first name is quite a common name, when I typed in my own full name into google of course I could identify myself. However when i went on these websites i found astonishingly that it gave away the details of my friends, whic could be quite understandable concerning the website, and therefore that is the extent of my digital identity. But however in the car this morning at a traffic light, I noticed the camera at the top, and I realised that I could be known about by anyone. Also I have something like an osyster card, but even then my photo had to be taken and was sent off to god knows where, It could have ended up in anyone's hands realisticly. I also have a mobile phone which means that the police could be tracking me anywhere in the world at anytime, on something so common that we take for granted. Also it is obvious that I will be on CCTV cameras all my life but how can we trust the police and the government to keep all of this information private.

Microblogging

Microblogging is where people can use text updates which are brief and concise which are usually less than 100 words or in a micromedia file which consists of a photo or an audio clip which can be viewed by the public or by a persons friends and by this he enables himself to choose who can see what one says. Also some people can use for business purposes or for one's individual's needs. For example twitter, which was founded by three guys called Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams. It was originally a research and development project and it has 31 employees and had 5 million visitors in September 2008 like Stephen Fry.