Myspace To Twitter how things have changed

[Echo_of_thunder 1]

Well my friends, I have been thinking about this for so long and thought that I would finally put it down here.Myspace? back in the day, not so long ago it was all the talk over the net, Now we have such as Facebook and our beloved twitter. what's next in the networking generation? Will we have a time where one can put there web cam on a site and be able to have a "realtime" network with all of our friends? Think about it. could be so nice BUT, it has a downside too. Maybe you can see where I am going with this. the draw backs of networking. Some of you may remember a few weeks ago Twitter was attacked, back in the day so was myspace and I feel sure that facebook has had this too. With as many social networking sites as there are all over the net, and more to be adding we all know. There things that we must remember.Know who or what you may be adding onto your network. It may not be what you think. I hate to say it because I do love twitter myself but it is becoming full of spammers. everything from hotels running room specials to the dreaded porno adds. Yes you may want to add some of these people, you do have a lot of local governments that are starting to use Twitter, Even Pres Obama himself.So remember Myspace, Twitter Facebook and all the others. They are all a very good tool, to use but must be used wisely.

[kleong 0]

To me, the first one to hit the social networking realm is friendster. But the one who brought the term social networking into the daily life of millions of people is none other than facebook. As for what you have suggest, who know it might turn into reality one day, friends in a mass video conferencing. As for taking extra caution while posting info online, it applies to all. From online banking to contest joining. Everyone just have to be careful and be sure that the site that you are submitting, they are from a reliable source.

[rayzoredge 2]

Social networking requires common sense. If you don't have it, it's your own damn fault if something detrimental happens, simply because you allowed for that information to be accessed by making it available in the first place.

 

To my knowledge, Twitter was never compromised... only attacked with denial-of-service and by users spreading worms by tweeting executable code. MySpace has its fair share of phishing scams, Flash worms, and malware voluntarily accessed by the less-than-wary portion of the WWW's online audience. If you use a bit of common sense, you can prevent most if not all of the bad things that you hear about afflicting MySpace and Twitter users. Even FaceBook has its evils with bad Apps... but then again, when you continually click on that button allowing the app you're interested in to gain access to YOUR information, you probably deserve to be compromised after having agreed to let 1000 apps gain access to your information because you were bored and wanted to take all of those dumb quizzes.

 

Also, in my opinion, Twitter can be a valuable tool since YOU can protect your own tweets and it is YOUR choice to follow certain feeds or to allow others to gain access to your feed. With that being said, you can utilize the tons of bots that make Twitter a valuable information tool, or use it to give mobile updates to your friends and family if THEY want to, etc.

 

Other social networking sites like FaceBook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc. can also be used in valuable roles, but at the same time, it can be used against you. Just keep in mind what you make available to the general public and you should be good to go.