Hello everyone. Again I hope that you found today's "field trip" to be beneficial and informative. Scott is certainly an energetic gentleman and you can be sure to find him in the Library most days. Just visit the Reference Desk!
Below I would like everyone to post a topic idea for this Monday. This should be a topic that you plan on pursuing in your upcoming paper, due one week from this Monday (11/20)!
Also post a potential thesis statement that you plan on arguing in your essay.
Remember to get these in by Monday's class meeting (in truth, it shouldn't take you more than a few minutes at most to compile and post this assignment). Having all these ideas presented online should help everyone formulate stronger and more focused theses when the time comes to begin writing.
My topic for this paper is going to be the problems posed by social sites. The title of my essay is actually going to be "The Spotlight Is On You-When Privacy is No Longer Private."
ReplyDeleteTHESIS STATEMENT: There are many issues concerning social networks. This may be a matter of opinion, but these concerns are of good reason. In recent news social sites have been "the root of all evil".
My topic for the paper is going to be the concerns of privacy on certain social networks.
ReplyDeleteTHESIS STATEMENT: Over one million people in America have a social networking website such as Myspace or Facebook. Websites such as these are said to be private and safe, this is not always the case.
My topic of this paper will be on the saftey of using face book and other social sites relating to the suicides.
ReplyDeleteThesis: It is great that we are all connected with each other by the click of a mouse and a web browser but when it gets dangerous we have to worry about the safety of internet users, social networks are apparently becoming to social in explicit ways.
My topic will be on the issue of safety of social networking sites.
ReplyDeleteThesis- Most of today's indiviuals are using a social networking site; however, do one know how dangerous a social networking site can be?
My topic sentence of the essay will be Privacy of the social networking.
ReplyDeleteThesis: In modern life social networking is the most popular way to communicate, but it has also some bad impact.
My topic for this paper will be on social sites can be ruin our lives.
ReplyDeleteThesis:When our private things become social then it create a threat that strangers could be able to misuse our information which can be create trouble in our life.
My topic will be on business opportunities within popular social networks.
ReplyDeleteTHESIS:Since many people are being "online" advertising and many promotions became very effective way for business.Thanks to this opportunity Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in the world.
My topic will be the concern with social networking and its privacy.
ReplyDeleteThesis: One major issue that has come to life in the twenty first century is the privacy that social networking does not provide.
The topic I will be disccuing in my essay is the issues of privacy involving soicla networks, such as Facebook.
ReplyDeletePossible thesis:
Facebook was created in 2006 by a Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg. It was initially created so that classmates would be able to talk to each other and get to know each other. With all the new features of facebook, such as News Feed, people are worried that facebook is beginning to revael too much personal inforation. Accoring to the article "Friend Me if You Facebook" by E.J. Westlake, some are even worried about stalking, "It makes stalking way too easy[...] it scares me!" (Pg. 22)
My topic will be about how social networks shift people's perceptions of privacy and what is acceptable for one to reveal about themselves in this public forum.
ReplyDeleteThesis: The seeming anonymity of the internet leads to reckless unveiling of personal information from people that harbors serious consequences for their futures as aspiring employees and in other relationships due to a constant surveillance of their online lives that might occur in this interactive environment.
Possible topic: Facebook & Bullying
ReplyDeleteThesis: Facebook once a website where one could communicate, and socialize with family and friends now a hunting ground for most people. A lot of bullying has made its ways to the internet and facebook has become a gateway for this to happen.
My Topic: Facebook, Privacy and Networking
ReplyDeleteThesis: If it is so easy to have my information accessed by spam and other advertisment companies, how easy is it for others to access my information I felt was hidden on Facebook?
I plan to write about how social networking affects bisexuals and gays.
ReplyDeleteSocial networking websites are powerful, suicides have been commited for the reason that homosexuals are one of the many victims who have been affected by the communication devices
Topic: Privacy and networking
ReplyDeleteMillions of americans are involved with social networking, whether it be Facebook, MySpace, or some other social networking website. Information put on such sites can say that information is private but in some cases it is not.
Possible Topic: Privacy and Networking
ReplyDeleteThesis: There are no secrets when it comes to cyberspace. Especially with social sites on the Internet such as Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, Twitter, etc. Everything can be traced, found, and be tampered with.
Topic: Privacy and networking
ReplyDeleteSocial Networks are the latest in a list of trends to hit the mass. Unlike the other trends that preceded it social networks connects the people globally. This is a threat that can have serious consequences. Such as anyone can be found if they a have a Facebook or MySpace account. In Peter Braden’s essay entitled “Is the Internet the Harbinger of Orwell’s Nightmares?” Braden discusses the negative effects of the internet in how it has Privacy issues. E.J. Westlake’s article entitled “Friend Me if You have Facebook: Generation Y and Perfomative Surveillance” talks about how Facebook diminishes one’s personal space. Also Julie E. Cohen’s Privacy, Visibility, Transparency, and Exposure and many other various information from many other sources.