MoSoSooo much Social Media

As you can tell from my previous posts, I am an advocate of online social media, and free information in general. Although, I probably spend a little too much time on Twitter or watching videos on YouTube, I, in no way-shape-or-form believe the spread of social media to be a bad thing (unlike Doris Lessing)

In the past few years, mobile social networking software (MoSoSo) has really taken off. Brands like Blackberry and iPhone have transformed both the manner and speed in which information is transmitted.

Unfortunately, as Andrew Anker points out, "[p]hilosophically, every technology has both positive and negative values."

Gloria Goodale and Anita Hamilton both point out the potential dangers of MoSoSo services like GPS on phones. Services like cell-phone GPS, they say, can lead to privacy violations--or worse.

Like with all new social technologies, though, users simply need to educate themselves and use these helpful yet powerful features maturely.


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