Team LoL

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Team LoL

• William Tan
• Gerald Wan
• Jeremy Millar
• Brock Moote

• Mail All

Thesis Statement

Thesis

Primary

• Research the trend of social networking and why people sacrifice their privacy in order to achieve social validation.

Secondary

• Why do people go above and beyond what they would normally consider doing for views and money through youtube partnership?

Keywords

privacy, social networking, facebook, myspace, twitter, youtube

Bibliography

Primary' Jones, Harvey, and Hiram Soltren, José "Facebook: Threats to Privacy"* [1]

• How facebook effects privacy
• Serious flaws in their systems
• Statistical analysis of Facebook data from MIT, Harvard, NYU, and the University of Oklahom

Goettke, Richard, and Christiana, Joseph "Privacy and Online Social Networking Websites" > link

• myspace and facebook online advertising
• default privacy policies not doing enough for users
• how much information a typical user of a social networking site makes widely available both knowingly and unknowingl

Bakari, Akil II "The Theory of Social Validation" link