Social networking services are broadly defined include those that are profile focused (Bebo, MySpace, Facebook), content focused sites (YouTube, Flickr), virtual worlds, mobile sites, and blogging.
The impact on youth from economically disadvantaged families is what Jenkins worries about most. "Already, you have a gap between kids who have 10 minutes of Internet access a day at the public library and kids who have 24-hour-a-day access at home," he says. "Already, we have filters in libraries [required under the Child Internet Protection Act of 2001] blocking access to much of the Internet. Now we're talking about adding even more restrictions."
With more and more children accessing the internet it has become some what dangerous as can been seen in Catfish which I just talked about when you can't really know someone you talk to online. With kids interacting more some people have taking advantage of this hench the protection act of 2001. Some kids may not be as aware as older people about the fact people mightn't be who they seem. There has been many cases were kids have talked to someone online maybe believing that they are their same age or same school and then thinking it's ok to meet up with them without knowing who they really are and a few times we hear that they are nothing like who the percieved themselves to be. This is also true though with older people but we have a bit more sense so it's not as worrying.
It's easy for any body to set up a fake website and take information of some else as so many pictures and information is posted on the internet and it can be takin by anyone. A few photos and a few fake friends( because people add people they don't know just to have a large number of friends on the site) and some fake information and you would be none the wiser if the person is real or fake.
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