Growing Up In Public What do you do when you realize how public your online life is? You could retreat into anonymity and try to ensure you leave no trace online (but increasingly there's something odd about a person who seems to leave no Google trace). Or you could say "So what?" and accept that every aspect of your online life is out there for people to find and judge as they will. in Public bookmarkswith facebookgooglehistoryidentitymyspaceonlineprivacy
Social media studies After years of worrying about how much time freshmen spend on Facebook, schools are incorporating the study of social networking, online communities and user-contributed content into new curricula on social computing. The moves, like other academic expansions into fields like videogame design, are part of an effort to keep technology studies relevant to students' lives. in Public bookmarkswith collegefacebooksecondlifesocialmediasocialnetworkssocialwebstudywikipedia