Framing Questions_Week 10

1. In the podcast, Boyd is comparing juvenile profiles on My Space, Facebook, etc. to actual social places (like parking lots). When it comes to physical social sites there is a higher level of privacy than with online social networking, and though the behavior is the same at both, do juveniles really see the distinction? Should there be different behavioral standards for both the participant and the viewer?

2. Boyd’s suggestion of leading youth “through murky waters” of social networking is a good idea. To go ahead and teach youth that whatever they do online isn’t really private, even to people they’re not ‘friends’ with, because of servers, marketers and other sources of statistical information, and that there online identities affect their lives as much as their behavior in their daily life. But how would be go about it? If the child using social networking doesn’t figure it out for themselves, will they really understand the importance of protecting themselves online? Is there a coherent way of going about this? Because Boyd did mention how parent’s were suggesting ‘lying’ about themselves as a means of protecting their online identities.

3. In the podcast it is mentioned that youth observe social “norms” online, that: “Public spaces have many purposes in social life – they allow people to make sense of the social norms that regulate society, they let people learn to express themselves and learn from the reactions of others […]”. There are a lot of different factors that affect actual observations that are ruled outline, such as tone of voice, mannerisms, etc. What kids view as behavioral norms online,  is it actually credible behavior?  Do adolescents change their Privacy Settings based on how much information is relived as in “Facebook Privacy Settings: Who Cares?”

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