Corinne’s Blog

Do people reveal too much about their personal lives online? Yes. Users of social networking sites, myself among them, seem extremely inclined to tell all of their friends everything that is going on in their lives by posting bulletins or other publicly viewed messages. I think that a lot of this has to do with people who crave the attention of their peers, and who think that by posting their entire life minute-by-minute on Facebook or MySpace they will somehow manage to get some much-wanted attention. I think that people are more inclined to do this on sites like these because of the detachment from reality. It is a lot easier to reveal something personal about yourself when you are not actually saying in to someone else face-to-face, because a computer screen and keyboard are easier to fool that a real person.

Most of the time I feel that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace are just tools created to make stalking people easier, because there are so many foolish people that are so trusting in humanity, or just stupid enough, to post personal information on their various pages like their phone numbers, addresses, ages, and much more.  There are countless stories about people who meet someone over the internet who turns out to be some sort of murderous creep. 

Now, I don’t just want to bring out all the bad points of social networking sites. I mean, I really like using my Facebook profile to show my friends pictures, and keep in touch with my family and friends; but people really should be more careful about what they decide to let the world know via the internet. There are some personal things that the whole wide world just does not need to know about, they’re called secrets, and let’s keep them that way.