'Plain English' Guide to Social Networking
This is a link to a 'plain english' video on the subject of Social Networking (on YouTube). It is a basic overview, but for those who haven't grasped what MySpace, Bebo and Facebook are about, it provides a good introduction. (Oh and just a reminder, you can't click on any of the previous links from a KCC networked computer).
Interesting is the recently re-vamped concept of a bill of rights for users of the 'social web'.
To summarise, the bill states that users should have:
- ownership of their personal information.
- Control of how this is shared.
- Freedom to grant access to trusted external sites.
Sounds great, but I can't see it myself. The upshot of the social web revolution is that it is free to users on the basis that:
- They own your personal information and use it for marketing.
- They control who gets it.
- They place ads wherever they have the maximum impact, and don't really care where that is.
Social democracy ...? Methinks some are pretty clueless about how the web makes its money by giving things away ...