Annotated Bibliography

Chikere Cottoy

01/31/07

WRT 205

Prof. Madeline Yonker

Annotated Bibliography

Brown, Robbie “My Political Space,” Newsweek.com. 19 Jul 2006. 30 Jan 2007

In a world where social networking sites are used for blatant self promotion and popularity contests the new site Essembly.com challenges to stir up that image. It is the emerging social network for the serious-minded acknowledging the politically savvy college students other sites seemingly neglect. Essembly.com is the mature counterpart to juvenile sites such as Facebook and Myspace.

McCullagh, Declan “Lawmakers take aim at social-networking sites” News.com. 10 May 2006. 29 Jan 2007 <>

With the overwhelming popularity to social-networking sites such as Friendster and Google’s orkut.com schools and law makers aim to limit student’s access. This limited access is proposed to take place in public libraries and schools. Their main concerns regard children’s safety.

Utter, David “Girls Dominate the Social Networking World,” Webpronews.com. 08 Jan 2007. 30 Jan 2007

Surveys of online social networking sites illustrate the broadening gap between male and female users. Its found that teen girls frequent these sites more so than their male peers. Social networking sites facilitate an outlet for these girls to strengthen preexisting friendships unlike boys who join to casually flirt and meet new friends.

Hesseldahl, Arik “Social-networking sites a 'hotbed' for spyware” MSNBC.COM. 18 Aug 2006. 30 Jan 2007

Youth who use their computers to access social networking sites, make their machines more susceptible to spyware and viruses. The phenomenon occurs as Teens are less careful in comparison to their parents as they not as cautious when it comes to opening pop-ups. The author dictates that Such a vulnerability is readily exploited by hackers are adware agents.

Stone, Brad “Web of Risks” Newsweek.com. 21-28 Aug 2006. 28 Jan 2007.

Stone relates that those who use online sites as public diaries to relate their nifty adventures and escapades are unknowingly putting themselves at risk . These sites such as Facebook are open to employers and institutions. These organizations use blogs, posts and pictures as a means to evaluate individuals. Ultimately things posted in jest or confidence ca potentially cause more harm than intended in the future.