3. Second Life Teaches Life Lessons

Though there are several bad things, this article explains many advantages about the social networking. The countless number of participators supports the ‘second life’ which was crafted as an open-ended environment. They explain many advantages that they feel things by playing the game. They are apt to make friends in the game and communicate with many others without being judged like appearance and characteristic. Also, they feel very free and flexibility and experience new things because it doesn't matter whatever they do while they doing second life.
Finally, it is easy to make new relationships which don't need face to face to meet others. People and organizations are related to the social networking. And it should be developed not only in the game but also in various programs which can communicate with more than fields. When they use reasonably 'the virtual community', it can make more useful and an affluent society.

The source: http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/news/2005/04/67142

2. How Obama Did It

The positive image of the president of the United States of America was created through the well handled social networking strategy such as online website during the period of his election campaign. And the social networking strategy was a very efficient way to show his positive image to public and it was better than any other methods because of its easy way to share information and communicate with many people on the website. Throughout the social networking site such as MyBO, The president Obama has heard people’s voice and has given his ideas to people too. So, many web users could catch his policy faster. In the campaign, it is well known that many people back the candidate, Hillary Clinton, but the president of U.S., Obama, has gotten more public supports than Hillary Clinton had through the online. As following the article, he has a strong relationship with this social networking site. Though many people want to be volunteers and help the Obama campaign, it is limited only small number of the registered Texans. In my opinion, it will be enormous value of advantages when many people can join more various programs. Therefore, he should make lots of active the social networking programs.

The source: http://www.innovative-analytics.com/docs/HowObamaDidIt.pdf

1. FRONTLINE: growing up online l PBS

The ‘PBS’, Public Broadcasting Service, is important thing in our modern society. In webpage, ‘frontline’ takes viewers inside the very public private worlds that kids are creating online, raising important questions about how the Internet is transforming childhood. They're able to have a private space, even while they're still at home. They're able to communicate with their friends and have an entire social life outside of the purview of their parents, without actually having to leave the house. As more and more kids grow up online, parents are finding themselves on the outside looking in. Through social networking, many teenagers and their parents can make a strong relationship or can cool off it when the parents don’t understand their children. There is ultimate purpose of growing up online how we teach ourselves and our children to live in a society where these properties are fundamentally the way of life. You need to make close the gap of generation through the social networking.

The source: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/#