While most college kids use Facebook as a social tool to communicate with their friends or look at photos of what their brother did over the weekend, it is becoming a way for future employers to find out more about the people they are interviewing.  If a recruiter happens to have a Facebook account and they want to learn more about you and they find a picture of you doing a beer bong during the middle of a football tailgate, they might think twice about who they are going to hire.  Students should be more aware of what they post on their individual accounts so it will not affect their future.

For my white paper project I would like to investigate businesses using Facebook to find out more information about potential and current employees.  I can see both sides of this argument and would like to find out more information about it.  It is a good way to find out about daily activities and the social life of the employee, which can in a lot of cases affect a person’s work.  However, a person’s life is their own personal business and as long as a person shows up and does their work, they should be able to have any kind of social life that they want and their employer should not be able to access that information if the employee wants to keep it private.

The new facebook will not allow a user to show all their information or applications on one page.  Instead of just going to one webpage a user has to click on many different tabs to see their friend's information. Also, if you want to check your wall for new wall posts it is more difficult since the user will have to scroll through all the activities that they have done on the new facebook along with all of your friend's wall posts that they have left for you to read.  The old facebook did not show everything that you did on facebook on your wall, so it was easy to check your wall for new messages.   

Many websites that sell products via the web have taken measures to ensure that a potential customer’s information is kept private.  Sometimes, however, this is not enough.  EBay, for example, uses an intermediate system to complete transactions if buyers choose to utilize it.  Paypal is a trusted site that completes merchant transactions using bank accounts and credit cards.  Many times people have gotten emails asking them to provide user name and password information.  These emails are, in fact, sent by hackers themselves.  There must be more than a simple warning done on behalf of Paypal to stop this crisis.  Paypal is just one example, there are many more.  

Although Facebook has widened the communication network, ultimately it has resulted in a privacy dilemma.  One of its newer features called “News Feeds” which was added in 2006 publicizes every action you take on the site to all of your friends.  This includes who you are now friends with, who commented where, who changed their relationship status, groups joined, etc.  It was also changed to be the first page you see when you log into Facebook.  It’s not as if all this data was hidden before, however it had never been so easily accessible.  Further additions such as the Beacon advertising program which shows users’ online purchases have people demanding for Facebook to stop invading the privacy of members. 

The advent of role-playing games such as Second Life and Teen Second Life has enhanced the world’s ability to interact across continents, researchers’ ability to conduct social experiments without manipulating humans, and a person’s ability to experiment with different lifestyles and gain different perspectives. However, such games have crept into the lives of teenagers, who use such programs as an escape from reality and a method of creating a more ideal life for themselves. The teenage years are the prime social development years, and if teens escape to these fake worlds to avoid reality they will never learn to deal and develop with the real world.   

There are many people on Facebook and more join every day.  On Facebook people can add pictures of themselves and other things meant to be taken in a social setting.  It does not seem right that potential employers can look at a site such as Facebook and judge someone for how they act around their friends; everyone acts different at work and at home.  Employers don’t normally hire investigators to look into a person’s life before hiring them and this seems no less extreme.  Besides, employers use a criminal background check prior to employment; they should stay out of employees personal lives.

There are multipule number with social networking which are involved on those sources like Facebook or Myspace. The main problem that i see that comes with these networks is privacy. Although most of these network do have options on how to manage one's privacy status, many people do not set to a privacy setting. Because they do not put a setting on their account, this may or may not lead to things like invasion of privacy. Out in the internet world, there are tons of preditors that lie about things like their age and try to attract younger males or females. One could also stalk someone if there privacy is not set to a certain standard. From personal experience, I had someone retrieve my cell phone number off facebook and text me. I found it extremely creep and reminded me that I needed to take my number off facebook. Altogether something needs to be done about privacy in order for protection.

The Internet has become a crucial part of how companies operate because it allows them to reach out to the largest possible portion of their target market. However, that benefit is lost if a customer’s experience on the company’s e-commerce website is negative. Regardless of if a customer enters a brick-and-mortar store or an online store, sales are made based on whether the store can offer a product to satisfy the customer’s needs and whether the store can create a positive experience for the customer. Online stores must realize that they operate at the third and forth levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and operate accordingly. Physical stores offer customers advice, a chance to test products, and interactivity in general. If e-commerce sites can’t implement tools that emulate a salesperson or create an interaction between salespeople and customers, they will never reach their full potential. What sort of tools would create the same experience as a physical store on an e-commerce website?

    With more than 50 million users, MySpace is one of the fastest growing and most popular websites in the United States.  However, recently the social networking site has made headlines after several sex crimes were connected back to it.  At first glance, the website seems innocent and fun; a myriad of users post pictures, blog and chat about everything from sports to current events.  Yet, it’s not all fun and games.  Last year alone, The Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported more than 2,600 incidents of adults using the Internet to entice children.  To make matters worse, authorities say most parents are clueless about their kids' MySpace profiles.  What can parents do to protect their children from sexual predators on MySpace and should the government intervene in protecting our country’s youth?