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What would be a good thesis for Facebook? - Respectedbadge958 - 01-27-2013 01:12 PM
I am not asking for someone to do my work for me, I just ideas on what my statement. I have been trying to think of something for hours. Facebook is kind of a broad topic and I can not figure out what I should be trying to prove. Thanks for any help.
- blunderbuss - 01-27-2013 01:20 PM
I have two ideas.
People love to reinvent themselves via the internet. People design phony usernames for their emails, for their Myspace pages, for forums, etc. People might do this to a certain extent on
Facebook (though not as much as on Myspace -- the degree of customization on Facebook is
not nearly as extensive). This is partially for the benefits of anonymity, but it's also a way for
us to "redesign" an image of ourselves and project it into cyberspace.
Facebook is basically a voluntary system for gathering information to market things. For example,
if everyone who ever went to Harvard Medical School was on facebook -- and identified themselves
as Harvard med graduates -- then people looking to market to that group could do worse than
go on facebook and gather some names for a mailing list, which they could sell. (Facebook
may be completely secure, but the potential exists, and new viruses and spam software are
always being developed.)