My name is Kate Dewey. I am a sophomore communications major and play lacrosse here at Cornell. I was born in Bangor, Maine, but now live in New Hampshire. I love sports and being outside. Ithaca is awesome and I love being here in all seasons. I would like to live out west for a couple years after I graduate, but I think New England is where I’ll end up eventually. Some things I love include hiking, gorge jumping, biking and traveling. I feel weird blogging because I have never done it before. I have no experience with this topic of psychology of social computing and so I am looking forward to learning a lot and being opened to new areas of the internet. My computer skills are pretty limited and so I am hoping this class will make me more comfortable with computers in general as well as the web.
An internet-related phenomenon that interests me is the popularity of myspace.com. I have never had an account, but I don’t understand how people feel safe putting pictures and information about themselves up for the world to see without any privacy settings. How do people trust one another on the internet (while chatting through myspace etc for example)? There are so many scary people who lie and creep around the website. In a perfect world, it would be totally safe and nothing would be dangerous about talking to complete strangers who have common interests with you, but this unfortunately is not the case. And it’s sad to say, but in this day and age you can never be sure and need to be constantly aware of your surroundings and places you are visiting online.
This is an asynchronous discussion forum because conversations are had and messages are left, but it does not happen in real time. Myspace.com allows for continuous conversations where others can read and see the messages. It is not so much a forum, like the book says, but it is the closest online space that I could pin point it being.
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Hi Kate,
My name is John and I have a lacrosse blog at www.badbacklax.blogspot.com. I was wondering if you would mind checking out the site and providing feedback. I found your site through technorati and my overall objective is to drive lacrosse enthusiasts to my site. However, I have the typical challenges of ensuring the content is interesting and making sure enough readers visit the site and support my advertisers. I'd love to get some feedback on how I can drive more traffic via social networking avenues, and any other tools that would create value for my readers.
thx
good blog.
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