Asami writes:
"Let me start by saying that some Social Networking Sites have come
into fashion now around the world. For example, there are sites
like "mixi" and "facebook". Actually, I use some SNS and like
making use of them, and I write a diary everyday and read my friends'
diaries. Whenever I sit in front of my computer, I open the site
and check something. The reason I use it is that I can receive
responses from my friends about my diary, and it is different from mail
in that I don't have to reply to that comment immediately, but I can
connect with my friends whenever I like.
But there are some problems concerning SNS.
One problem is about privacy, and another is about real encounters away
from the SNS. The former problem is often focussed on in
relationship to the internet. Once a person writes about other
people's private matters in their diary, many people can read it and
know that person who was written about. Even if the writer has no
nasty thoughts, the person who was written about may have a bad feeling
concerning that article or have a trouble because of it. When we
write some information on the internet, whatever we are going to write,
we should deal with other’s information carefully. The latter
problem is that some people use SNS for real new encounters with
strangers. It has a good point that we can meet a lot of people
newly, but it also has dangers. There are some incidents happened
connected with SNS. Some bad persons use them for their personal
selfish purposes, for example sexual or violent ones.
It is difficult to say that SNS is bad for people,
but we should take care when we use this kind of site. We need to
have a responsibility as a sender."
