Weekly Reflection #8 EDTL230.2008.M008

This week we really didn’t have a specific trio share, so our class was much more discussion-based. We continued on with the series of videos about teenagers and the Internet. I think that these videos are wonderful to show in a class like EDTL 230 because I believe that many students come to college not fully understanding the true dangers of social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. They don’t consider how what they post on these sites could affect their futures. For example, an increasing number of employers are searching Facebook and MySpace when a person applies for a job at their company. If a person has a bunch of pictures posted from last weekend’s drunken frat party then that employer is probably less likely to hire that person. The issue of sexual predators also comes up when dealing with these social networking sites. It may seem like a virtually non-existent issue, but the fact is that stalkers are on these sites. It may seem like a one-in-one million chance that it would happen to you, but what happens when you’re that one of one million?