Crawford - Blog Post #5

The article includes that Christine Rosen is the senior editor of The New Atlantis and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center meaning that she is credible and has had a decent amount of experience in writing. The only problem is that the article is from 2007 so it is not quite up to date so some of the topics she talks about, such as MySpace, are not necessarily true now although it most likely was then. She includes all of the aspects for an analysis for that date in time. A lot of the facts about MySpace and Facebook are true except that Facebook has become the main source of social networking. As the article has become more out of date, so has MySpace. In the article, Rosen talks about how social networking in general affects how we act outside in the physical world. For example, most people don’t consider a relationship “official” until it has been changed on Facebook. It could also affect how long relationships last especially for couples that are constantly in and out of a relationship with each other. It is so easy to just change their status the moment it happens because they could not just tell everyone who cares themselves.

For the most part I agree with Rosen’s point in the article about how social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, whether they be old or brand new, impact our decisions both on and outside of the Internet. They affect the way we think and act as well as how we react with each other and talk.