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Tori A hvon Damian Job Scott **1. When was your social networking site or technology created?** The first known use of a blog was in August 1998.

Nobody is 100% sure on who the first blogger was or who thought of the idea, There were a few contenders though, Dave Winer, Jorn Barger, Justin Hall were all thought to possibly be the inventors of blogging.
 * 2. Who is credited with creating your social networking site or technology?**

3. How do most people use your social networking site or technology? Most people use social networking by blogging, chatting, pod casts, and file swapping. My space, face book, twitters, and tagged is also a chatting website that you can chat on With your friends. You can also use social networking by putting your picture on your Page or when you use video chat.

4. What are some of the benefits of using your social networking site or technology? Blogging can go far beyond the reach of search engine optimization.  Blogging can be excellent way to increase website traffic.

Damian(5&6) 5. What are some of the drawbacks of using your social networking site or technology? People can see your blogs and that might attract sexual predators who could become “cyber stalkers”. (www.childnet-int.org) 6. How can users of your social networking site or technology control what other users see or find about them? You can usually go to account settings and make your blog or whole page/profile private. Also you should be careful who you choose to allow to see your page/profile. Don’t share to much information on your blogs either because people can find you easier and hurt, take, or cyber bully you. (www.childnet-int.org

7. What are some of the controversies surrounding blogs? A HUGE controversy with blogs are that they are easy and quick to make so anybody off the streets can make one, and that means that the information you are picking up from that blog could be false and untrue. Also being that blogs are so east for anyone to make, it normally not based on fact, but on opinions.

8. Have blogs been in the news in the past year, if so what happened and why was it news? They have not talked about specific blogs but they do often talk about the false information in blogs or impropriate blogs .Blogs are very dangerous.

9. What was the original purpose of your social networking site or technology? They use the networking for employers, teachers, colleges, and for fun. 10. How are high schools, colleges and/or universities using your social networking site or technology? They use blogging for protests, communication, and informing large groups of people.