Build Your Online Community

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What are blogs, message boards, and newsgroups? People all over the world use blogs for many reasons ranging from personal diaries to political statements. Is a blog or online journal the best way for you to communicate in cyberspace? Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests with their friends in an instant. But how much of your life should you reveal on the Web? Just what is a newsgroup? Is being anonymous good or bad? Which voices can you trust? In Build Your Online ...

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Overview

What are blogs, message boards, and newsgroups? People all over the world use blogs for many reasons ranging from personal diaries to political statements. Is a blog or online journal the best way for you to communicate in cyberspace? Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests with their friends in an instant. But how much of your life should you reveal on the Web? Just what is a newsgroup? Is being anonymous good or bad? Which voices can you trust? In Build Your Online Community, author Jan Burns has the answers to your questions.

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Children's Literature - Lisette Baez
Many questions arise when delving into the world of social networking. What is a newsgroup or blog? How much information should you reveal about yourself? Who can you trust? What is the best way to communicate and connect in cyberspace? With social networking all the rage, you will want to learn the answers to these and many more pressing questions. Now you can! Jan Burns shows you how to build your very own safe and fun online community. What a great way to connect with friends. You can share ideas, hobbies, activities, upcoming events, and even pictures. This is a great resource for young people today. It provides the resources for understanding the Internet and its history; it has a glossary for decoding today's computer lingo and even shares a safe strategy for diving into social networking. You can learn how to create a blog, a message board or even a newsgroup. This is also a great resource for parents and teachers to use to reinforce safety on the Internet while promoting a fun and appropriate way to incorporate and use technology in everyday life. Part of the "Issues in Focus Today" series. Reviewer: Lisette Baez
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781598451306
  • Publisher: Enslow Publishers, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 4/1/2011
  • Series: Issues in Focus Today
  • Format: Library Binding
  • Pages: 104
  • Sales rank: 1,126,123
  • Age range: 11 - 14 Years
  • Product dimensions: 6.73 (w) x 9.29 (h) x 0.47 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

Chapter 1 The History of the Internet 9

Chapter 2 Blogs 20

Chapter 3 Message Boards 33

Chapter 4 Newsgroups 44

Chapter 5 Searching for Information 56

Chapter 6 Evaluating Information 68

Chapter 7 Social Networks 79

Chapter Notes 95

Glossary 99

Further Reading 101

Internet Addresses 102

Index 103

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