MY Essay on social networking and identity

Over the years people have seek a better and easier way of making or doing things and technology has played an important part in over life. Over the last a period of time ten years, technology has made a great impact on our lives.” In my opinion, the Internet has had the largest effect on lives in the Canada and other country.” The Internet also known as the Worldwide web is the World’s largest network, and worldwide collection of networks that link millions of business, governments, educational institutions and individuals using modems, telephone lines msn and other communications devises and media. It has impacted our businesses, families, culture, education and almost every area of ones life.

The Internet has affected the way many companies do business today. Companies now have easy and quicker access to local, regional and international markets. They are now able to get information from several suppliers by just going directly to their websites and can make a deal to here company.

Internet marketing is in comparison with other things inexpensive when compared to the ratio of cost against the reach of the target audience. Companies can reach a wide audience for a small fraction of traditional advertising budgets. The nature of the medium allows consumers to research and purchase products and services at their own convenience. Therefore, businesses have the advantage of appealing to consumers in a medium that can bring results quickly.

We often hear that computers and the Internet make young people less interested in politics, or less participative in social affairs at large. It seems that this matches our everyday observations. When they home for school, they go straight to their rooms, turn on the computer and to chat and play games. According to A Nation Online, more than 31 million individuals under the age of eighteen were using the Internet as of September 2001 (there are more than 65 million people under 18 in the United States). The presence of young people on the Web is quite impressive: those between the ages of 12 and 17 now make up 12% of the Internet population in the United States, according to Media Metrix (an interesting side note: the figure is the same in Europe).

The favorite online activities for these age groups are probably no surprise. Kids 5-12ranked e-mail, homework research, and game playing as their top online pursuits;top activities for teenagers were e-mail, using search engines, and instant messaging.There is a surprise to be found here, however: Jupiter Media Metrix shows that adults spent more time online than teenagers did and accessed the Web more often. Teenagers aren’t big online shoppers, either. Jupiter reports that in a recent survey, only 15% of teens purchased items online. Those who did purchased lower-priced items like CDs and books. Considering teenagers’ limited income, this makes sense. Children, the next generation of credit card holders, are getting the message, too: a survey by NFO Interactive found that more than 50% of children have asked their parents to buy products they have seen while surfing the Internet. Kids and teens are expected to spend $4.9 billion in 2005, but the spending they promote offline is expected to exceed $21 billion for the same year. In short, advertising to teenagers and children pays off.

When young people get online internet they go to including Internet forums, MUDs, instant messaging, and massively multiplayer online games, users can represent themselves visually by choosing an avatar, an icon-sized graphic image.

They an online identity is an online social identity that Internet users establish in online communities and websites. Although some people prefer to use their real names online, most Internet users prefer to identify themselves by means of pseudonyms, which reveal varying amounts of personally identifiable information. Social networking sites like MySpace and Friendster have become extremely popular – especially among young people.

1 comment October 24, 2008

Identity

Online social identity is personality that Internet users establish in online communities and websites. Although some people prefer to use their real names online,but most people don’t use their real name on Internet users prefer to identify themselves by pseudonym, some people go online by somebody name and personally identifiable information.In some online including Internet forums,facebook, instant messaging, and massively multiplayer online games, users can represent themselves visually by choosing an avatar, an icon sized graphic image. As other users interact with an established online identity, it acquires a reputation, which enables them to decide whether the identity is worthy of trust. Some websites also use the user’s IP address to track their online identities using methods such as tracking cookies.

6 comments October 17, 2008