I have been reluctant to get a profile on MySpace despite staff's urging me to do so. I understand the benefits of it--even to a professional librarian--contacting prospective authors for future programs and connecting with other professionals. I don't like that people want to limit access to it for teens and believe that most comments about teens using social networking sites is one dimensional and hurts the other uses of the sites.
The sites for Obama, Edwards and Clinton were spiffy and almost looked liked websites! I had heard that both Obama and Clinton announced their presidential candidacy on MySpace and couldn't help thinking that this was an indication that the elections would be different this time around. I was also happy to see that Edwards had his wife as a friend! Anyway, this is just one way of social impact that these sites have!
Another social impact would be the lesson that many young people are learning and that is that their reputation is a commodity to protect at all times even online as many prospective employers are using these online social networks as a way to check into backgrounds.
Anyway, these three sites seemed like advertising even though I think their purpose for being on a social networking site is to be more personal.
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