10 Topos

1) Young Users of Online Social Networks usually don't understand the range of danger that giving personal information on these sites represents.


2) Some users of Online Social Networks develop addiction to these sites, wasting valuable time and even changing their personalities.


3) Antecedent and consequence: Kidnappings and sexual harassment have happened in these sites as a consequence of the amount of personal easy-to-access information found in them.




4) Division of whole into parts: Online social networks affect users in several ways: Addiction, Privacy issues, Safety and Cyberbullying.


5) Precedents: Online Social Network Facebook had to change privacy settings and make them stronger due to privacy charges put by users and companies.


6) Precedents: In suburban Dardenne Prairie, Mo., near St. Louis, 13-year-old Megan Meier hangs herself after receiving cruel messages on the social-networking site MySpace.


7) Authority: Experts say cyberbullying has become a scourge of the adolescent world, inflicting painful scars on youngsters and vexing adults unable to stop the abuse. 


8) Statistics: About 9 percent of respondents ages 10 through 17 said they were victims of threats or other offensive behavior, not counting sexual solicitation, that was sent online to them or about them for others to see, according to a 2005 University of New Hampshire survey.


9) Antecedents and Consequence: Bachelorette party pictures on Facebook cost Spanish teacher Ginger D'Amico a 30-day suspension. This is a clear example of privacy loss.


10) Comparison by difference/Statistics: Older online social network users are least likely to take steps to limit information availability than young users according to previous research.