Myspace

MySpace Offical MySpace website

MySpace plans to protect younger teens

Details the way in which Myspace plans on combatting the risks associated with teenagers' use of the site and gives examples of lawsuits which led to the institution of these measures.

Facebook

Facebook Offical Facebook website

Facebook Dangers- University of Texas Article

An easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to help you ensure that your facebook page is safe and secure from prying eyes.

Google+Facebook+Alcohol= Trouble

The site demostrates how teachers and faculty of high schools and colleges moniter social networking sites such as Facebook, while also stressing the issue of privacy as well.

Blogging

What Are Blogs and Where Did They Come From?

An exhaustive history of blogging as presented by the Wikipedia organization. Goes from the pre-HTTP code language days of the eighties to the revolutionary jumps in blogging technology in the 90s to the present-day state of blogging. Gives links to blogging in culture.

A More Concise History of Blogs

For all you ADD kids out there: a shorter history of blogs and what they are for and what they have been used for. Quite a bit more structured than the Wikipedia article, this page lists emboldened blogging terms for easy comprehension and understanding. Probably a good precursor read to anything else about blogs.

Kids and Blogging

Gives concise reasons for the benefits of blogging for children, some of which can apply to adults as well.

Youtube

A Link To the Youtube Homepage

Reconciling Youtube with Capitalist Consumerism

Just how will the makers of Youtube make money off their creation? but more importantly, why does that matter at all?

The Perils of Your Public Writing

MySpace, Facebook attract online predators

How predators use social networking to attract their victims. This page goes through a few specific instances of pedophilic predation upon others and outlines the current situation of what is being done to combat these predators.

They Are Watching You...Or At Least Your Dumb Myspace Videos

Three crucial pieces of information come from NewScientist's research on this subject. First, the NSA is mining information from social-networking sites, but they may come up empty-handed because social-networking sites are not the most profitable investment when it comes to efforts in thwarting terrorism. The next important point is that the NSA is using the RDF coding language to their utmost advantage, making those web sites which convert to RDF easy targets for data-mining operations; and thirdly, the NSA can go anywhere it wants, even if it is not supposed to, and little can stop them from doing so. Every bit of information here was incredibly helpful to me, and gave me new insight into how the government involves itself with our daily lives.

Benefits of Public Writing Online

Help Your Business Grow With Blogging

A great page that is short but to the point. The details for business-minded blogging are listed and highlighted. A very easy page to follow which gives great ideas for benifitting entrepreneuerships through online writing.

SAFEGUARD YOURSELF

The following links are THE OFFICIAL pages for making your webpage and yourself as safe as possible. Each page gives specific instructions and covers nearly every risk-area possible to stumble through while writing online publicly.

Official Myspace Safety Measures

Official Youtube Safety Measures

Official Facebook Safety Measures