Who's adding friends???

Most younger people engage in online social networking sites like Myspace and/or Facebook. Selecting and accepting friends is obviously a large part of this interest. However, how each individual approaches this option is very different. The online world enables people (whatever their ascribed status happens to be) to symbolically represent themselves. They can do this through an AOL profile or a graphic or avatar. In any case, people can hide behind their Myspace or Facebook profile also.

http://www.mint.com/blog/moneyhack/howto-protect-your-privacy-on-facebook-myspace-and-linkedin/

The link above is an article describing a study done, where Facebook users privacy information was put to the test. It explains how the subjects were very freely putting up information about themselves online. The article also goes deeper into the more broad subject of “identity theft”, which proven from the study done, to be a major problem.

http://www.adderdemon.com/

The 2nd link is to a website called “Adder Demon”. This site enables someone to add “100’s” of Myspace friends, apparently disregarding who you might be adding. This is basically the opposite way of social networking view to the privacy complaint about these various websites. The idea of having a million Myspace or Facebook friends, at least to me, sounds pointless, but many people continue to think its important.