Week 6: Myspace

Impact of Identity on Myspace

Most agree that using social networking websites such as Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter can impact ones identity greatly, but I totally disagree with that. Instead of these websites impacting our identity, I think people alter their own identity to how they want to be perceived as online for example some people may be pedophiles and they represent themselves as someone young, super attractive, as someone that a younger person can turn to in order to trap them. Or some people just have altar egos that they themselves get absorbed in and let leak out to their personal offline lives. Ultimately, I do not believe that sites like Myspace impact our identities at all because it is in fact just a website created for you to come and communicate with others a device cannot impact someones identity, people just alter themselves and change their on identity.

Real World Results of Using Myspace

From the required reading, I have learned  that not only does websites help users to make friends and communicate with their peers, but that through us putting our lives all out for the world to see that it has also resulted in other ways such as helping the police. It is absolutely bazarr how people set their on selves up unknowingly just as the gang that is talked about in the reading who were ignorant enough to talk about a "snitch" on Twitter putting out all their business and showing the police that they will be after the snitch williingly snitching on themselves. Myspace has been used in the real world as a way to catch sexual predators online basically resulting as a free and easy tool to help investigators without having to put in as much work as in the past to find creeps like that. 

From the reading, I have learned that we are making more things way more possible by using the social networking websites and that they have different types of values for all of us. For instance without these sites, it would be less more likely for police officers to find many criminals. I have also learned that this century is completely ignorant to these websites although they may think they know everything about everything they absolutely do not, for example, criminals just go around using these site building up evidence on themselves thinking their pages are private but little that they know there are officials patrolling the whole site. By bragging on their pages to their friends and their "friends of friends," they are just making things so much easier. But on the other hand, criminals can also use these sites to their advantage also by using it to communicate with other criminals and warning one another of any dangers to come. Social networking sites have not just only been a way to come together but in other ways such as in law enforcement, politically, online bullying etc. It has become more dangerous.