Ante, Spencer E., and Catherine Holahan.. “Facebook CEO Admits Missteps.” Business Week Online (10 Mar. 2008): 1-1. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 13 Nov. 2008 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=31242563&site=ehost-live>.
Spencer Ante has written about technology for several years and has written for many different publications pertaining to technology. Like Ante, Catherine Holahan is too a writer, she not only writes for Business Week but she has written for other publications such as The Record. This article is popular and targets all audiences. This article looks into the mistakes taken by Mark Zuckerburg, the CEO of Facebook. He admits to mistakes made in the social network having to do with privacy. He said that he is learning along the way with the network of what the public likes and dislikes, he said that the public likes to have more control. The article focused on only a couple of examples of mishaps. I would have wished they used more examples or had gone into greater depth and analysis. I thought this article would have been more useful. It was really more of a report of words of Mark Zuckerburg pertaining just to two examples, Beacon being one of them. This article is useful because it talks about Beacon, however the article had more potential.
Lucky, Robert W. “Zero Privacy.” IEEE Spectrum 45.7 (July 2008): 20-20. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 11 Nov. 2008 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=33077158&site=ehost-live>.
This article is popular and it targets any audience. Lucky is the Vice President for Applied Research at Telcordia Technologies. Lucky writes about advancing technology in general and how there is “Zero Privacy.” Lucky uses different examples to prove how advancing technology is the cause for less privacy. No matter what there is no way to get around the lack of privacy with the up and coming technology such as camera phones and microbots. I thought this was very well written, I would have hoped he would have gone into greater detail with his examples of technology. He more of just skimmed the surface of privacy within the technological world. This article is very useful on a general level. Its more of a supporting source that I am not the only one that agrees with the level of privacy diminishing from social networks or even all of technology.
Perez, Juan Carlos. “Can You Trust Your Social Network?.” PC World 26.2 (Feb. 2008): 22-90. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 9 Nov. 2008 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=28328523&site=ehost-live>.
This article is a popular article and is targeted to any type off audience. Juan Carlos Perez is an editor of IDG news service. It gives examples and explains how social networks such as Facebook use other companies and users to their advantage. They use a program called Beacon. Beacon tracks a user’s activity such as different purchases made online. The program then notifies the social network like Facebook, then Facebook in turn uses it to advertise the product or company the user purchased to other users. They are using a familiarity tactic by using a user to advertise to the user’s different friends. This article had a lot of useful information; I did not know that the social networks invaded privacy to that extent. The only con to the article is that it is a popular article so the information could be bias and non-credible. This article pertains entirely to my subject of privacy within the specific social networks of Myspace and Facebook.
Tufekci, Zeynep. “GROOMING, GOSSIP, FACEBOOK AND MYSPACE.” Information, Communication & Society 11.4 (Aug. 2008): 544-564. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. [Library name], [City], [State abbreviation]. 9 Nov. 2008 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=32708194&site=ehost-live>.
Zeynep Tufekci is a professor at University of Maryland in the Sociology and Anthropology department. Her article was written to a scholarly audience and has a ton of works cited at the end of the article. This article is the analysis of research and data on a college campus. She compared students that use sites like Facebook and Myspace to those who do not use any social network sites. She found that those that use social networking sites kept in touch more with friends compared to those who do not use the sites. She also found that those who do not use social networking sites do not use any type of online aid as means of communication. This article was a lot longer than I thought. I thought the author and researcher wrote way too much on a simple topic. I could have come up with the same solution without all the data tables and interviews. This article does not have as much relevance as other articles, it is more about the user of the sites and not the site in itself. Although the site does give very accurate data and surveys, it can still be useful.
