I read articles in the section “Sports Nut” since I am a big sports enthusiast. The style of the writer seems to be one of either direct connection or a narrative style.
Citing lack of support from the household the writer says “Unfortunately for the USTA, national organizations with comprehensive mission statements don't produce tennis champions. Crazy tennis parents do.” As sports go, there are those crazy parents and I can agree with the writer.
The writer next starts out the paragraph with “Consider the Williams sisters. As the story goes, their father, Richard, upon learning of the lucre that women's tennis offered, decided to make his next two kids into tennis pros.” Connecting one point to another helps this writer’s narrative style and keep the reader interested.
The style allows me to browse because it keeps giving scenarios where parents have overtaken their children’s lives in order to make them millionaires and champions in sports.
The article takes an unexpected turn but it still keeps me reading closely when the writer says “sociopathy—the utter lack of a conscience…happens to be really useful on court.” I like when writers touch into the psychology of sports simply because a fan or an outsider to a sport does not know the ins and outs of training, competing, and winning on a consistent basis. Because simply put, “Great players reduce their opponents to targets that must be eliminated.”
It sparks an emotional response because I have been involved in sports all the way until I attended college. So it makes sense to me and I want to speak out to defend the writer’s words.
The Slate prose, despite the ads and such that overlap them, is something I definitely like to read on the screen. When something is on the screen that appeals to me, I can read the pieces and stay interested, especially when it talks about sports.

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Recently, numerours employers and university admission offices have performed background checks through Facebook. Students may be helped or hurt by the content on their Facebook profile.

Employers look at groups students may be in, pictures that suggest controversial conduct, and wall posts of the student's profiles. Some students feel that they can no longer be themselves on the Facebook. Facebook is turning into a new form of spyware for employers and admission offices.

Facebook is a public networking site, therefore the material people post on their profile page is available to anyone. Many universities are now intensively using Facebook as part of their admission process. Some universities around the country have stated that students with inappropriate material on their pages will not be admitted. Colleges and universities may be trying to limit the amount of underage drinking within their own institution. When prospective high school students post photos of underage drinking with their friends, they will likely do it in college too. Employers are trying to gain insight on a student’s personal character through photo posts. If a student has a compromising photo, an employer is likely not to hire that applicant.

Using Facebook profile information has become a controversial topic. Students believe their information is private and only their friends should have access to their profile. Employers and admission offices believe profile information provides valuable personal character information. However it is possible for students to adjust their profile privacy settings to some extent. All employers and universities do not conduct Facebook background checks, but people using Facebook need to be aware of what they post on their profile page because it might cause them harm in the long run.

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Currently, Facebook is used by 85% of college students and can be considered by far one of the biggest hotspots on the World Wide Web for young people. Also, more people of the older generations are signing up for Facebook accounts. Facebook is a relatively new way for people, young and old, to communicate with each other and express themselves.

Recently, Facebook has become a very popular way for people around the world to reconnect with old friends. The most common reconnection is among old college friends, but that is not the only kind. Because Facebook has become popular among all age groups, it is also a way for members of families to connect with each other.

Through Facebook, people can communicate many different ways. The most popular ways of communicating are by “posting” a message on another person’s wall or sending them a message. A user can communicate in a less direct way by using the “poke” ability. This is just a way that a user can let another user know that he or she is thinking about the other person.

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What is Facebook?
In the most basic of terms, Facebook is a social networking site that allows users to access content created by other users and to create and share their own content. The complexity of the explanation occurs when addressing the various features and uses that have been evolved over time.

In addition to simply linking themselves to one another via who their friends are, users are able to interact through applications and groups, and forum-type discussions that result from the two. Since all of the content is user-created, it empowers users to dictate the types of content that are available, and to create new types of content.

In theory, in addition to simply informing other members about oneself, users could also be able to influence other members. Facebook provides a number of mediums for interacting with users: both individual users and larger quantities of users.

The scope of Facebook members has grown from those in particular colleges, to simply those that meet an age requirement. The context of Facebook is that of learning and exploring, and thus users will be receptive to any sort of general-audience content that is created.

There are limitations to what Facebook can do, but there are also a number of opportunities for organizations to reach out to college-aged individuals.

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Background
Facebook is a social networking website created by Mark Zuckerberg, while he was a student attending Harvard University. Zuckerberg originally limited profile access to just Harvard students. He then expanded Facebook to other universities, and then to high school students. Now it is essentially open to everyone above the age 13.

Zuckerberg believed that opening Facebook to everyone was the best step, and it would increase business because the websites main source of funding is through investments. Facebook is valued at over eight billion dollars, and has become quite the commodity. It is a great way to network oneself through an online profile, and connect with friends virtually all over the world. However, it has caused some major problems, and has been banned from many schools and work places in order to increase productivity.

There are issues with people who do not understand Facebook. Parents seem to have the most questions and concerns about Facebook, since it is their children who are the driving force of its popularity. There is concern about who people are contacting online, and if these people are being honest. However, there are a number of ways to monitor who can see their profile, and who their online friends are. To understand Facebook more thoroughly, it is important to know the basics and features, the level of popularity, and information on privacy.

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Facebook has not always been an application available to 100 million people. This social networking website has gone through numerous stages of availability.

When Mark Zuckerberg founded this website it was only available
to students at an Ivy League school in the northeastern United States, Harvard University. As its popularity increased, access to the network was expanded to include students at other Ivy League schools. The number of people belonging to the Facebook network was relatively small, that is until it was opened up to students at every university.

The number of Facebook users increased immensely when it was made available to any university student. People with a valid university email address could join the social networking website. Soon every college student had a Facebook account. Having a Facebook account became the college student norm.

The demographics of Facebook users grew quickly after it was opened up to any university student. From university students, it expanded to allow high school students to create an account. Eventually anyone over the age of 13 with a valid email address gained the privilege to obtain a Facebook account.

Members of this virtual social network range from students, parents, adults, and employers.

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In regards to the privacy on Facebook, there are certain options available to parents in protecting their children. The privacy settings for Facebook have four different tabs which can be altered for an individual’s profile. These tabs include: Profile settings, Search settings, News Feed and Wall settings, and Applications settings.
Profile settings allow any and all information within a persons profile to have certain restrictions to other people. The options for who can see someone’s profile are broken down to either people within the same network, friends of friends, only friends, or the settings can be customized to restrict specific individuals to view only a limited profile.
The same settings are also available for Privacy Search settings, when it comes to Search Visibility. The settings for what people see when they search an individual’s name can also be altered. This includes whether someone can view your picture, your friends lists, add you as a friend, or send you a message.
News Feed and Wall settings can be changed to allow what topics are shared on an individual’s News Feed or Wall when someone views their profile. Some of the information that can be limited includes comments made on other peoples profiles, new friends added, and current relationship status.
Applications settings are used to restrict what applications an individual wants on their profile. These settings are also used to restrict how much information someone can see on a profile through an application..
Overall, Facebok offers many privacy settings for an individual’s profile. If parents want the ability to restrict who sees their child on Facebook, or what information is posted on Facebook, these settings are readily available. However, the most effective way for parents to monitor their children’s privacy on Facebook is for the parents to have their own profile.

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In conclusion, Facebook may be seen as too “technologically savvy” for some parents. However, Facebook’s features are really quite simple; it just takes some time for parents to get used to them. Facebook is generally easier to navigate than its competitor MySpace. This is because MySpace allows users to decorate their website using HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), while Facebook only allows plain text. This sole fact should make Facebook more appealing and easy to use for parents and older adults who are not technologically advanced.
Parents should find the numerous privacy settings of Facebook very comforting. Entire profiles can be private, so only friends can see the page, or sections of the page may be private, including walls, photos, groups, etc. One clause of the site’s privacy agreement stated that Facebook has a right to sell a user’s data to private companies, stating: "We may share your information with third parties, including responsible companies with which we have a relationship." This concern was criticized and quickly addressed by Chris Hughes, Facebook spokesman who claimed that Facebook has never given out a user’s information to third parties and that they do not intend to.
Facebook has become extremely popular with parents ever since the site became open to more than just students. The website has more than 100 million users worldwide. No wonder everyone wants to join!

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Facebook originally started off as a social networking site for college students. In the last couple of years it has grown from just college students to anyone that wants to join. However, employers, and now some university admission offices, have been using Facebook to do background checks on potential employers. The students you see in class everyday may have a hard time getting a job out of college for something that may be posted on their facebook profile.
Employer’s say they look at groups students may be in, pictures that may suggest wrongdoing, and what other people have posted on students profiles. Instead of a place where students can be themselves, they now have to worry about everything that goes on their profile. Facebook seems to be turning into a new form of spy ware for employers and admission offices.
Facebook is a public-networking site, so the material people post on his or her profile page is available to anyone. Many universities now are taking steps with facebook. Some universities around the country have come out and said they will not let any students into their school with inappropriate material on their facebook page. Colleges and universities may be trying to limit the amount of underage drinking that goes on in college. If photos have been posted of prospective high school students drinking with their friends, it’s likely a habit they will bring to college with them.
There is some controversy over the use of peoples profile pages. If you ask students, they would say it’s private to them and their friends, and if you ask an employer or admissions officer they may think it’s valuable information. There are privacy settings people can set to make their profile as “private” as possible, but there are still ways around it. All employers or universities do not conduct Facebook background checks, but people using Facebook need to be aware of what’s going on their profile so it doesn’t hurt them in the long run.

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The privacy of Facebook has evolved ever since its conception in 2004. Since Facebook was only open to a few select schools, only those with those certain school's e-mail addresses could sign up to join their school's Facebook. This also meant that no one outside of their school could see their profiles unless they were friends. As Facebook started opening up to more and more schools, students could make sure that only those inside their school network could see their profile, only their friends could see their profile, or people at anywhere could look at their profiles. In 2007, Facebook opened up to the general public. This meant that no “.edu” email address was needed to validate where the Facebook member went to school. Since there was no way of validating who members actually were, privacy became a huge issue for members of Facebook. Facebook administrators added multiple options for security. Today, users have multiple options for security based on who can see what in your profile; who can search for your profile; and who can message, friend request, and “poke” you. Users can also set what content their friends can see. For example, if you didn’t want your little sister in high school to see pictures of you that your college friends tag, you can block this portion of your profile from their view. Facebook has received a lot of criticism for lack of privacy, but with the multiple settings and levels that users have, it’s really up to the user as to who can see what on their profiles.

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