'Big Brother is reading your blog' response

There has been an increase in the number of people using internet as social networking. Some of the most commonly used social networking websites include blogger.com, facebook.com and myspace.com. Nowadays the users are concerned about their privacy as there have been reports on sexual predators and identity thieves prowling social networking sites.


Teenagers now use organized social Web sites to meet others and explore identity formation. These sites can be viewed within a larger trend that shifts the influence of interpersonal correspondence to mediated messages.


These sites play a key role in youth culture because they give youth a space to hang out amongst friends and peers, share culture and work out an image of how they see themselves but some of the users use these sites for illegal purposes.


I think and agree with the fact that companies and schools should come up with soft wares that prevent personal information being sent via these websites some of such softwares include SAP and IBM. These soft wares help us monitor blog and hopefully in future avoid the cases of sexual predators and identity thieves.