What, you mean that other people could look at my FaceBook?
I was at a lecture into online journalism yesterday and we were discussing blogs, the rise of the ‘new trade press’ (expert bloggrs) and how journalists fit into all of this.
We got sidetracked and started talking about social networks and then someone piped up with “But it is my FaceBook and I don’t want employers to be able to see pictures of me doing….” Read more
The Guardian’s Obssessed with online networks
Great story in the Guardian yesterday from an Ofcom report into how much time people are spending in online networks.
The report says that 39 per cent of adults with internet access use social networking sites
Apparently we’re averaging five hours a month in MySpace, Facebook etc (I feel like I’m doing a lot more at the minute - my course has got me soc-netting, I’m on Facebook, I’ve got a Ning network for my student group, one with my colleagues and I’ve been invited into another for a research group…. And I’m trying to drum up support for a friend’s rude punk band on MySpace too.). Read more