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This video tells a different perspective on befriending on Facebook. He talks about how if you just add people that you don't know it can be dangerous. There have be people who befriend a person they didn't really know and that person ended up tracking them down and breaking into their house and robbing them. The man on this video also talks about how the police are trying to befriend people posing as someone else to catch underage drinking. They are pretending to be a cute girl or guy to find drinking pictures and tracking those people down and arresting them. The main idea of the video is to make people aware that you need to be careful who you let be your friend.

Interesting TED talk about the limits of an open web due to filtering tools.

"With web 2.0, we've embarced the idea that people are going to share pictures of their cats, and now we build sophisticated tools to make that easier to do. as a result, we're creating a wealth of tech that's extremely helpful for activists. There are twin revolutions going on - the ease of creating content and the ease of sharing it with local and global audiences."

Talks about how to create digital identities and gives data on how often teachers update their profiles.

The founder of 4chan, a controversial, uncensored online imageboard, describes its subculture, some of the Internet "memes" it has launched, and the incident in which its users managed a very public, precision hack of a mainstream media website. The talk raises questions about the power -- and price -- of anonymity.

This talks about possible negative emotional effects of Facebook and those with social skills that aren't as up to par as the average person.

This essay writed by Danah Boyd at the University of California-Berkeley talks about the role of the internet and social sites in teens life, identity, friendships,etc.

This talks about how our Facebook identities are in our own hands and what you put up can never go away, even if untagged or deleted.

A teacher talks about how he researched himself and then began to build himself a good and accurate digital identity.

This article by Danah Boyd, of whom we've seen before, talks about how teens are switching over from Myspace to Facebook and how a persons socio-economic class shows which site they are more likely to use.

This talks about a principal wanting to block facebook and myspace from being accessed at the school due to sexual predators and mean girls

This video shows college students giving a presentation on Facebook identity. They talk about how our identity on online social sites such as Facebook can affect our employment opportunities.

This article talks about how most people are not protected on the internet and it tells how people with accounts on the internet can protect themselves.

Talks about how the virtual world is self-controlled. Some people put up things based on reactions they hope to gain from friends. Our identity on Facebook could be close or far away from the truth.

Talks about what makes Facebook so interesting to some people and what makes the same people become addicted to facebook.