Without contradicting the moral weight of social software post from last week, let’s take a moment to look at three stories from Arstechnica about MySpace and others: online video leads to teen arrests, shooting rampage avoided due to MySpace posting, and Google + Facebook + alcohol = trouble.
These are the stories we’ve come to expect: [...]
Posted April 23, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: embarrassing, facebook, moral responsibility, myspace, online policing, playground, privacy, public forums, social internet, social software, youth. Be the first one.
Danah Boyd posted recently at Many-to-Many about the future of social software. I’ve been more than a little bit gung ho on web 2.0 for a while, but I do like her caution:
If MySpace falters in the next 1-2 years, it will be because of this moral panic. Before all of you competitors get motivated [...]
Posted April 18, 2006 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: danah boyd, facebook, friendster, moral responsibility, myspace, responsible application development, responsible web design, social internet, social software, web 2.0. One Comment.
