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User Generated Content (UGC) is re-shaping the way people watch video and TV, with millions of video producers and consumers. In particular, UGC sites are creating new viewing patterns and social interactions, empowering users to be more creative, and developing new business opportunities. To better understand the impact of UGC systems, we have analyzed YouTube, the world's largest UGC VoD system. Based on a large amount of data collected, we provide an in-depth study of YouTube and other similar UGC systems. In particular, we study the popularity life-cycle of videos, the intrinsic statistical properties of requests and their relationship with video age, and the level of content aliasing or of illegal content in the system.

A Facebook page where you can view Facebook users opinions on this issue.

This describes that students use what they learn from popular media to help build their online identity.

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.

Facebook, a site primarily used by college students and young graduates transitioning into the work force. The outcome of this initial case study is a framework for understanding how users manage self-presentation while maintaining social relationships in heterogeneous networks.

Thought that looking up "cyber friends" on Urban Dictionary might be helpful. I thought it would be a little amusing, but it is actually pretty straight forward instead of humorous.

After I wrote this column about Facebook I found I had extra bonus thoughts so I decided to put at least a few of them here. When Gawker Media announced that all employees we were required to have Facebook profiles, in 2007, some of my coworkers were decidedly un-thrilled at this encroachment on their private lives.

"A few weeks ago I was over at my Aunt and Uncle's place helping them re-jailbreak a first generation iphone I had bought for them in Augusta last spring. Our conversation drifted into why they both haven't signed up on faceboook yet. The short answer was - they are already connected to their friends."

While some interpret popularity to mean ''widely liked,'' or accepted by one's peer group members (Bukowski, 1989), others see it as being ''socially dominant'' (Parkhurst &Hopmeyer, 1998, p. 138). Social network researchers often leave the definition to survey respondents and simply ask: ''Who on this list is popular?'' or they ask ''Who on this list is a friend of yours?''

Song writer that became popular through the use of YouTube.

This source is not published through a newspaper, or research facility but yet by an individual man. Because of this I believe it gives valuable insight into how everyday people commonly view Facebook, and our identities.

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.

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

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 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.

Today's snapshot of "Social Networking in Education:"...Wikipedia page on this wher you can view videos, articles, conversations/blogs and a couple presentations on the subject.

The recent case of a Columbia grad, Carla Franklin, seeking to have YouTube release the identity of an anonymous user who posted defamatory comments and videos about her has reignited the debate over internet users' right to privacy:

This article is about how anonymity effects people in online video games, and video game forums. It mostly focuses on the negative effects.