Facebook

Learning to negotiate online social networking without feeling vulnerable is certainly a challenge. As a private person, who works in the public eye, I feel a need to hold back on just how much gets posted out there about me.
However, for college students, Facebook was a terrific idea in the beginning. It was a fantastic link for students to keep in touch when they left their home towns and spread out across the country or oceans to attend college. I liked the idea better when it was for college students only instead of open to everyone. That might have been because my daughter gave me the sense that it was really for them, and not for the older generation or for kids. I'll have to ask her how it has changed now that anyone can participate.
In the last few months I received invitations from grad school colleagues to friend them on Myspace. I now plan to go ahead and do that now, so I can find out what they are up to and to compare Myspace to Facebook as a user.