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Users share a commonality in the various ways they represent themselves on Facebook. These vary from the way people structure their privacy settings, to the way they represent themselves through their pictures, to what groups they identify with, and how they define themselves through text on their profile pages. It is something which when analyzed can be recognized as constructed in order to portray the desired image of each individual. With a Facebook page you use its different features to create yourself from nothing and in heart design yourself. The freedom that the virtual world provides allows people to construct their identity in any way they wish. With the freedom of constructing identity in multiple ways comes the freedom to socialize in multiple ways. Therefore, Facebook is a space where people may construct and share their identities, rather than being just a platform where one "'keeps in touch."

In the article Myspace, Facebook promote Literacy, Debra Lau Whelan talks about how social networking sites can help you gain more than just friends. Social networking sites offer e-safety, "Staying safe, keeping personal information safe, protecting yourself and your belongings, making sure that we don't participate in bullying or other antisocial behavior, and helping out other people who might be affected by these issues, is a key part of digital citizenship." Responsibility becomes a central role on these sites because their safety is at risk. Kids are able to control childish behaviors or prevent themselves from making rash decisions by using safe tactics on the internet. These sites broaden horizons for the users, letting them talk to people they may not have talked to otherwise, creating a variety and diverse web culture, driving away from cliques on school playgrounds. "Collaboration, discovery, and becoming a team player are all encouraged because these sites promote working, thinking, and acting together." Social networking sites allow users to create groups online to help find other people with the same interest as you. This allows communication on a topic that many people all over the world share a common interest in. Diversity brings new ideas and helps these users see things in a different point of view. These teens are not trapped in just with their classroom but they can't interact with people all over the world. Teens messing around on the computer on social networking sites is not just leisure time wasted, "Being able to quickly adapt to new technologies, services, and environments is already regarded as a highly valuable skill by employers, and can facilitate both formal and informal learning," Computer skills are adapted from using these sites, making it easier for teens to perform computer tasks in the future at work. This article gave me a new outlook on Facebook and social networking sites. I always thought that these sites w

The first piece of advice the article Facebook Education brings to teachers is to create an alternate profile for yourself in order to avoid any awkwardness from the students seeing the teachers personal life and another profile for former students. Facebook Groups is an essential part of updating classroom work and homework and the same goes for photos. Updating photos of class work and homework can be a helpful way for students to know how to approach their work.

In about the 30 second mark it shows that unknown people gaming online can come together on Call of Duty Black Ops and mess around as a group while having fun. All it takes is one person to instigate a behavior, to start a chain reaction of communication online. It just goes to show that even when you are gaming by yourself at home, that you can have a conversation with someone that you might not have even known. An Example of this behavior of talking to person online during gaming takes place during the two minute and five second mark. I am going to use this video to show that even when you think you are networking, that you could be. In today's world the ways of communication have opened up significantly. It has opened to the point where I can be in California and game with family in Texas.

Gaming becomes a huge topic that goes on throughout life. Many people would talk about their games, for example Farmville and helping out by sending things and other related subjects. Also as you go on it slowly goes and connect yourself to other games and topics that are going through.

Jesse Schell talks about how video games was once fantasy base and now has penetrate into reality.He gave examples of how life would be like if it was a video game and how we would benefit from it. Games have grown into technologies and it will keep on growing.

This article suggests that flash mobs posess certain dangers to our way of life. "The loss of individualism."