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This is the second episode I am hearing after a murder story that revolved around Orkut. This time it is Face book.

http://www.indiatimes.com/photostory/5670119.cms

The horrendous act
Peter Chapman, 33, who had previously received a seven-year prison sentence for raping two prostitutes, pretended he was 19 years old when he convinced student Ashleigh Hall, 17, to be his Facebook friend. He then collected the girl in his car from her house before driving to a lay-by where he tied her up, raped and strangled her.

My Roots;258016Thanks. I didn't knew about secondlife site. Can't believe it, wife ,kids virtually:emdgust:??

Yup my DH was in there too with his virtual farmhouse/company and what not. Its a very good way to market products too. I dabble in there couple of years ago. not sure why i didnt hook to it......maybe my real life is too difficult to manage to have another virtual life.

Young job-seekers hiding their Facebook pages

[QUOTE]Justin Gawel says there's nothing too incriminating on his Facebook page.

"There are a lot of pictures of drinking [but] nothing naked or anything -- at least I don't think so," he said jokingly.
Even so, the Michigan State University junior recently changed his Facebook display name to "Dustin Jawel" to keep his personal life from potential employers while applying for summer internships.

Although Gawel ditched his rhyming alias after two weeks when he realized Facebook users also can be searched by e-mail address, school and network, he is not alone in his efforts to scrub his online r?m?Many students and recent graduates say they are changing their names on Facebook or tightening privacy settings to hide photos and wall posts from potential employers.

And with good reason.

A recent survey commissioned by Microsoft found that 70 percent of recruiters and hiring managers in the United States have rejected an applicant based on information they found online.

What kind of information? "Inappropriate" comments by the candidate; "unsuitable" photos and videos; criticisms of previous employers, co-workers, or clients; and even inappropriate comments by friends and relatives, according to the survey report, titled "Online Reputation in a Connected World."
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Should people be careful what they put on their Facebook page or is such caution overkill?

"God bless those hard-working techies in Silicon Valley for inventing this constant stream of things that serve mostly to make me feel guilty because I don?t want to use them even though everyone else says they?re the greatest thing ever. First came Facebook, which I joined but rarely use, and now has become just one more e-mail inbox that I need to check once in a while. Then came Twitter, which is mostly pointless, since I really don?t care what anyone else is doing at any particular moment and have no desire to tell others what I?m doing either."

The above from OP's blog is exactly my take on these social networking sites. I will skip the next 10 years of social networking and wait till something more meaningful evolves or people become more creative than building a social network off of a 140 character text message.

I think social networking sites are good if you apply caution when using them and keep the profile as private as possible. I use it among our group of school/college friends, etc
to share photos, videos of kids, sometimes something funny someone comes across. It is a different way
of communicating and the best thing about it is it is informal. And since many of my girlfriends do not have the time to call or send emails, this helps keeping in touch.
It is not advisable to connect to them during work hours though.

I echo MyRoots,PG,Rajaram comments... it's like a fashion to say I have facebook account/twitter etc.. Electronics have made us lazy and our life complex more than it helped. At work years ago, we used to have meetings in conference rooms where we share our ideas/issues face to face, but now those meetings are extinct...even my neighbor either calls me or chat with me through instant messaging (office product).

My mom used to say "aayiram thalai-ya parthal annaikku chenzha paavam pogum" (watch thousand heads/people, your sin for the day is gone), I believe it or not, the point is to see other people in your life makes it better than just "socializing" with pc/iphone/ipad/???

My take is mixed on this subject.

Why are we talking about this subject here in r2iclub forums and not with our real life friends ? Because they don't appreciate certain things, and we are still looking for companians for each of our interest. And it is difficult to find one person or a family to share all of our interest.

Like a person can be husband, son, father and brother at the same time for different people, we have different interest, tastes and hobbies and we constantly looking for companians to share our thoughts in each of these area.

Some of you who think soc n/w wont work are telling the same thing what people were saying emails were introduced.
We have phones, and postal mail, why email ?

If there is no demand, these wont be popular. Remember facebook is not compelling you to open the account. It is done by peer pressure. That is your real networking forcing you to take another platform for communication.

Several ventures die out quickly and some take off and some do really well.

I think linked in has lot of advantages and some disadvantages. But people who benefit by these networks can speak volume.

When I meet any r2iclub member, first thing they like to acknowledge the friendliness of the people here and their helping nature. This includes them too.

I agree with RRK, since I have mixed feelings too. I am for technology but think Twittering about every boring detail, trying to account for every silliest event is way too much. Imagine how people must have felt about telephones when they were invented! Some naysayers must have thought that it would cut down personal interaction and would be bad. If Linkedin gets you an interview or job offer, isn't that great? Society is always evolving, for better, I hope.

I cannot live without emails, it is such a powerful tool to communicate. As to FB, I am quite cautious. I do not want to be tracked down by all and sundry. I am a very private person and like to keep it that way. Having hundreds of friends even on FB seems shallow. Are you trying to prove you are popular or is your life a soap opera which people like to follow? Hey, I am all for drama.:wink

just my 2 cents.:cool

#14, #15,

I think it all depends on the age group(=new generation) who is accepting these changes.

Like us, we all welcomed email, phone while our parents appreciated long letters and physical presence when these technologies came in, obviously because we belonged to new generation group at that time.

Fast forward, we are no longer a new generation:( The kids of today's age welcome- twitter, orkut and other social networking sites very much while we think it is too much of invasion of privacy.

Don't know what is waiting next, that the current generation will have hard time accepting in future. :)

The less social we become, more will be the need for social networking technologies. And thats exactly what is happening and I think will continue to happen. I remember somebody saying Social Networking technologies are anti-social. Ironic?