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Top Social Networking Sites

By on Friday, April 4th, 2008 | No Comments

You all would have heard about MySpace and Facebook. They are well known Social Networking sites and have a huge number of people signing up as new members each day.

In case you are wondering what the top ranked social networking sites are according to Alexa you can see a list that Guido NussBaum has compiled and listed on his www.easy-viral-traffic.com blog.

It is interesting that I actually came across his site through Facebook. He is one of my facebook friends. I was just over at Alexa a few minutes ago and noted some differences from the list shown on easy-viral-traffic.com and the current rankings.

MySpace.com has actually moved from 6 to 5. Facebook is up to 6 from 10 and Hi5.com has improved from 11 to 8.

I must say when I saw the Hi5.com listing I thought wow, they are popular, but it was not the Hi5 I was thinking of. Here in Australia there is a musical group that entertains kids that is called Hi5.

Check out the Social Networking list, it makes for some interesting web surfing checking out the sites. Maybe some of them will match your interests.

Are the press exploiting Facebook users? Australian Swimmers may think so

By on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 | No Comments

Here in Australia there has been an unfortunate incident where an Australian swimmer Nick D’Arcy has been charged with assault. It seems now whenever some newsworthy event takes place members of the press go hunting through Facebook or Myspace to look for photos or additional information about the subject.

The day news broke about Nick D’Arcy’s alleged bar brawl photos appeared on the Sydney Morning Herald website which were copied from D’Arcy’s Facebook profile. It appears that the photos have since been removed from the smh.com.au site. The journalist used the photos to make out D’Arcy was a boozing party animal. A judgement made from the photos.

Also on Monday articles appeared on the Brisbane Courier Mail website showing Australian Swimming world record holder, Stephanie Rice in some party shots also copied from a Facebook profile.

After seeing the photos I searched on Facebook and found a large number of swimmers had a presence on Facebook. Swimmer’s including Rice’s boyfriend, 50m freestyle world record holder, Eamon Sullivan were on Facebook. There were hundreds of photos from various parties and trips around the world undertaken by the swimmers.

The Courier Mail is making sure they get more out of this story by publishing a followup article titled “Stephanie Rice told to block raunchy Facebook pictures“. Within that article is a link to some of the photos copied from Stephanie Rice’s Facebook profile.

In a kneejerk reaction Swimming Australia asked the swimmers who are part of the Australian swimming team going to Beijing to remove the Facebook profiles. When searching today for Stephanie Rice all that remains is a fan page.

What do you think about the media going into Facebook and stealing the athletes photos for their own purposes?  I don’t agree with the media using the photos in this way. 

There is something the athletes and general public should learn from this, make the Facebook photos only available to friends or named individuals if they don’t want the wrong people viewing the photos.

Within Facebook there are privacy settings to restrict who can view photos.