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Social Networks - The Danger

“Statistically, one in ten people live next door to a pedophile. But I don’t, I live next door to two beautiful seven year olds.”

The past few years has seen a huge rise in people's activities on social networks. We have gone from spending between 1-2 hours online in a day to spending an average of 31 hours online per week. If that was divided equally into seven days, it works out to be 4.4 hours per week spent on the internet. 3 hours out of that is spent on social networking, whether through instant messaging, facebook, twitter, bebo or myspace. When we look at it, that's a lot of hours, and teenagers as young as 13 are on these websites, adding strangers as friends and becoming accustomed with them. Because so many people are on facebook and twitter especially, it has become a new medium for con-men, pedophiles and bullies to victimize their preys.

Teenagers make friends with people online who have good looking pictures and the picture portrays them as someone in their age group but the person on the other side of the line is actually a fully grown person, playing on the young person's intelligence. This is something that has started happening to people and also being acted out in movies, for example, catfish.

A real life example that comes to mind when i think of this is Ashleigh Hall, a teenage girl who was killed after meeting up with a 32 year old sex offender who was posing as a 16 year old boy on facebook.

That's just one of the many cases that have propped up over the last few years. This in turn have led a lot of bad publicity towards social networks and some parents are restricting their children from going on these websites. Personally, i think its the wrong move, because this will now mean that these kids will be going on the websites behind their parents back and being secretive. All this could have being avoided if the parents just decided to start monitoring their children's activities on the internet

Catfish - "Don't let anyone tell you what it is."

So Catfish then, i actually really enjoyed this documentary very well. But in enjoying it, it also got me a bit scared, that someone could embark on the mission that Angela embarked on just to keep themselves busy. Another thing that got me scared was, how easy it was for her to do, she is either incredibly smart or Nev and his friends are incredibly stupid.

Now from here on, if you haven't watched the film, stop reading now, because I'm about to spoil it for you.

Here we go!!!

Basically, this documentary follows the plight of Nev, a young new york photographer, Ariel his brother and their friend Henry. Ariel and Henry decides to document the relationship between Nev and his 8 years old online friend Abby, an artist who sends him paintings from Michigan. Their relationship first started when Abby asks for Nevs' permission on facebook to paint a picture he recently uploaded. Nev agrees and he soon receives an amazing replica painting through the mail. She then proceeds to ask him if she can paint more pictures of him to build up her portfolio. Nev then adds Abby's mom, Angela and her older sister Megan. He then finds himself being involved in their lives without having met any of them. Soon after, he starts developing a more intimate relationship with Megan. Weeks past and they start getting to know each other and begin to have feelings for one and other. There's a bump in their relationship though, when Megan sends Nev a song that she claimed she wrote and recorded that night, in turn for Nev and his friends to find different versions of the song pasted all over the internet. At this point, Nev realizes that this people are messing with his head and he said they could actually be psychopaths. This begins the turning point in their relationship and Nev begins to hold back from sharing information with Megan. They then find out that the building which Angela said was bought to be used as Abby's gallery was actually still on the market, so they decided to pay them a surprise visit in Michigan. When they got to Michigan and arrived at Megan's farm which she claimed she lived in, it is revealed to us that it is empty, at this point i started having doubts as to whether this was really a true story because everything that was happening, was happening as it would in a drama movie.

At this stage they decide to take a trip to Angela's house which to my surprise inhabits people. What i don't understand though is how they were able to film Angela without her having suspicions or disallowing them the right to film her. Anyways when Angela opens the door, we are greeted with a woman who looks nothing like the person on the facebook picture. They now find out that Megan never existed and that Abby wasn't the painter, it was really Angela who was doing all the paintings.

Overall, this documentary was an eye opener, whether it was real or not.

Where is our sense of community?

I'm sitting here. trying to remember the last time i felt a sense of community in my neighborhood and i'm finding it incredibly hard... Still thinking...... I bet if i was to ask anyone my age, when they last experienced community, they would probably find it difficult as well. I'm having to go as far back to when i was 11 to recapture any sense of community, that says a lot about us as people. Right now, I don't even know anyone on my street, whereas 7 years ago, i knew just about everyone and was always in and out of people's homes. The memory that sticks out to me the most(finally remembered something) is the time some hooligans from a couple of streets further down from ours knocked over little Denise Coal's bin and we all got together put the bin back in its place and then proceeded to not only knock their bins over but also pour everything out(What a badass thing to do). We were all united and that sense of community was really buzzing in us. Think I only did that because I fancied her though, but the point is we were united.

Another memory that sticks out(They are flooding back now!!) is summer evenings, playing football on the green near my house with almost every kid, the ones who weren't playing were in wheelchairs, shout-out Aaron, Chanel and Danny. Anyways back to the point, we would be playing and then one after the other, the adults would all start coming out either to play with us or just sit on the grass and watch us as we play. There was a real sense of togetherness within us but that era is now long gone.

I remember the times when I wanted to see if my friend Larry was home i just scream his name out the window, something that if I were to do now I'm sure i would get ridiculed for. Nowadays when my little brother wants to check for his friend, he either calls, text, Facebook, bebo, tweets or skypes him, none of this requires him to get off his lazy backside and go to his frontdoor.

The Internet is a major factor in this change because that is where the younger kids who can make a neighborhood a community spend most of their time and in doing this they are turning their social activity on the internet into a community. For example, on Facebook, when someone writes something insultive about your friend on their wall, you and your group of friends will attack them in order to defend them, notice how this is similar to what my street did for Denise Coal back in the day. This leads me to my conclusion that community isn't gone. it has just moved from the streets to the internet. Even though i say this, is there not a way where a balance can be reached between the two??

Moral Panics - Illuminati

One of the biggest moral panics concerning the music industry at this moment in time is the term "ILLUMINATI". Virtually everyone living on this planet over the last 5 years must have heard the word being used and know some information about the group. I feel that without the media not a lot of people would know about this secret society. The internet especially youtube is playing a major role in getting the information to the people of the society. Basically what the media tells us is that all these really big famous artists are made to write their name in blood to sign a deal(Record Deal). They really are selling their soul to the devil and the Illuminati.

The artist must now do everything that the Illuminati tell them - they must do pyramid gestures, put satanic symbols in their videos, and rap/sing about matters that are corrupting society (money, sex, violence, women, drugs.)
In return, the Illuminati will give the artist instant fame and recognition. They promise the artist a beautiful lifestyle. However, every artist at some point regrets the contract. They become imprisoned. They cannot stop singing/rapping. They're "married to the game" - Eminem.

After this is all done the artist will then do one thing that will generate a lot of media coverage which will then throw them into stardom, e.g, Paris Hilton came out with a sextape, Lady Gaga came out with one single and rose to fame instantly, she is now an icon, etc.

Another thing that has being occuring is the fact that because the symbols of the Illuminati is freely available on the internet and the characteristics of a song affiliated to the illuminati is accesible, a lot of artists both signed and unsigned are now including these symbols in their songs to generate hype and to get the media talking about them, a tactic that is really working for these artists.