Havenstein, Heather. “Facebook, Myspace users will trade privacy for features.” Computer World. 18 Sept. 2007. 19 Nov. 2008. < http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9037379 >
Heather Havenstein is a senior reporter for Computer World since 2004. She has worked in other IT fields in the past. She reports on current events going on in the World Wide Web technology world. This article targets a popular audience because it is short in length and gives facts, quotes, and opinions, there is also no works cited for her information. She talks about how social network users are willing to give their information to the social network in order for them to use it as advertising. The users do not care that the social network is using their information to make a profit. This article is great for an “opposing viewpoint” example because it opposing what most of the other articles have been saying. It gives the opposite opinion which is always helpful in a research paper. It is also a great reliable source.
“Myspace, Facebook Ad Plans Violate Privacy, Groups Tell FTC.” Commercial Alert. 13 Nov. 2007. 19 Nov. 2008. <http://mashable.com/2006/08/25/facebook-profile/>
This article did not show who the author was however it came from Computer World in the long run. It was very short in length and no works cited, so it targets a popular audience. This article talks about how these two social networking sites abuse the information given on the site by the user to advertise. So and so investigates more into how these two sites uses the personal information given by the user and in turn advertises to the user according to the information. According to the article this is borderline to a violation of privacy. I would have hoped the article would have been longer and would have gone more into depth with examples; also, what the FTC is going to do and why or if they can do anything to stop the privacy invasion. This article has good information however there is no telling if it is very reliable because there is no author.
