Anther Guest Lecturer

Today we had another guest lecturer, Brady, who discussed the social networking aspects in a bit more depth. I discovered there is a major difference between Facebook and Myspace. It's all to do with how much your profile is an honest and truthful representation of who you are as opposed to putting out an improved persona, more like what you wish you were. Myspace allows more creative descriptions of yourself than Facebook. We also watched a couple of videos. The first one was an interview with an American academic who shed some insight onto the history and the human side of networking (the interviewer however shed light on bad shirts and ridiculous shaving). The second was much more interesting in that it showed the naivety of people about the possible consequences of your digital footprint. The access to information to create a stolen identity is very, very obtainable. Employment prospects can also be hampered by your postings of less respectable photographs and event descriptions which was roundly castigated by some of the participants in the discussion.