My Project

April 21st, 2010.

This week in EDC 213 it was me and my classmate Tomesha did a project on Social Websites. For our project me and Tomesha chose FaceBook as our desmostration of Social Websites. What we did was talked about how Social Websites can be dangerous and the ways that we can make using them safer. The ways that Tomesha and I taught our classmates how to do this was first we created a false Facebook account impersonating a 14 year girl. We made it so that this profile had everything that a 14 year old should NOT have on her facebook profile. We put things like her adress, phone number, email adress, and other contact information is was public to the world.

After we did this, we showed our classmates how to make your profile safer. We used my facebook for this part and I showed our classmates how to group their friends into 3 categories. Friends, Family, Professional. After I showed them this I showed them how to set things like their albums and their contact information to where only their family members can see them. Or their friends and family only.

Lastily, Tomesha showed our classmates how to create an avatar. The point of this was the show our classmates that if they ever use a social website to teach their students, they should have their students use an avatar of themselves instead of using their own picture.

The whole point of our project was to show our classmates that their are ways to make their identity more private.