Week 7: Internet

I counted 178 "Social Networking Websites" for my search on wikipedia.org

I have heard of 11 of them. I don't know of any that aren't listed.

I am going to look at faces.com which is a social networking sight for teens in the UK. It began in March 2002 and has changed names a few times before landing on faces.com, it is mostly female users aged 16-22 years old. It is like most social sites allowing you to blog about yourself and friend/follow other users. I use social networking sites to keep in touch with friends from high school and before. Especially being a stay at home mom I stay in contact with most of my friends. I use Facebook, MySpace the most frequently.

An incident happened to me on Facebook about a year ago. I had a falling out with a friend/roommate. She owed me a large amount of money for rent that she had yet to pay me, but had since moved out after I asked her to leave, for not paying rent anymore. I posted a comment on her "wall" asking her if she had my money yet, after I did she never responded, HOWEVER her friends lashed out at me calling me many foul names and telling me to be patient and wait (even though she had owed me this money for over a year, and had gotten herself fired and failed to try getting another job). Needless to say I don't talk to her anymore and haven't dared post anything else on her wall.