Topic of My Conversation

Although my group and I were not able to present on wednesday, the topic of my conversation had to deal with the book Go Tweet Yourself by Janelle Randazza. Essentially, it explains why many popular social networking sites such as twitter, facebook, & myspace simply "suck." The book goes about making its point via the use of jokes, that do a great job of catching the readers attention.

In regards to a certain facebook application, the author uncannily comments, "as though real golf wasn't a sedentary enough sport, Facebook has now made it so you never actually have to get off the golf cart. You can just sit on your rapidly spreading ass and exercise your mouse-clicking fingers all day long." (Randazza, 158).

All jokes aside, the author does make some great points by stating that most of these social networking sites are simply losing their identity and becoming ones that mimic dating sites instead. Additionally, she believes that some of these sites are simply disclosing to much personal information about its individual users, which obviously highlights concerns of privacy that we've discussed thoroughly throughout the quarter.