Monica is starting and describing the swear jar.
Introduce yourselves.

What year did you get online and your first
social network

Linda – mid-200s maybe – she was doing research for a
project (about bodybuilding, women using steroids). Her first use of Roxyyo.

Rebecca – first website 1997 – Less than Jake. She had
an AOL IM chat.

Jenn – late to the game 2006 – it was Facebook. She
managed to avoid the entire MySpace debacle and moved directly on that.

Nadia – late 1999 – really cool email addresses (absolutelyfabulous@hotmail.com)
- Friendster.

Since you were aware before Facebook – personal
privacy issues – how does it affect what you put out there?

Jenn is very different on Facebook, on Twitter, etc.
Facebook is extremely personal. The population in general shouldn’t have access
to Facebook (there are my friends)

Nadia – well, those photos WILL be out there. She thinks
that even when you put them out there you have to be aware of the fact that they
can be out there.

There’s a difference – putting those FratBoys pictures
don’t

How do you deal with permanence? (Linda and Rebecca) –
what’s out there?

They are checking their CurseBird scores.

Rebecca (2004-2006) – anything pre-Rebecca Bollwitt you can’t really find.

You can put a representation of you but nobody needs to
know the gory details.

A discussion on the gender talk. Mostly women used a
handle. “Miss604″ for 2 years.

Jenn used to just use “jennmae” – because it was cool,
fun. At no point she thought that she should use her actual name. You could
over-share.

There are lots of things that you don’t realize you are
putting out there.

Monica – how about the online fear about safety
concerns? How much is legitimate, what do you make a concerted effort to
conceal?

Jenn – Location awareness. It only takes ONE person who
figures out where you live and creates an issue. Once the information is there,
it’s out there. It only takes ONE person to make it an issue.

Rebecca – when you go into blogging/a platform – what do
you want to share.

No matter how careful you are, there is always a
controversy – how do we respond to issues/random situations?

Linda – the people who were doing the fake Roxyyo

Rebecca – Duane posted a Google Map of where he is. All
the information he has ever shared, people are really going to find it.

When people friend you/follow you – do you make
exceptions on your social networks?

Nadia – talking about Twitter and Facebook (she was
about to say the ‘b’ word – branding). Even though she has friends who are part
of the industry (a dinner party with, sit down, talk about whatever it is).
Whereas Twitter is a different sort of communication, interaction. She would go
to someone who would provide important, useful information.

Nadia is very careful about Facebook. It’s more PAST
related. There are friends who started there. She pays respect to that part of
her personality.

Linda – different from personal friends and non-personal
friends. Twitter maybe needs to evolve to a place where you can subscribe to
different types of tweets.

What about friends who are/are not on social networks –
do you have concerns about -” hey are you going to blog about this?”

Jenn – people (ex-boyfriends/dates) are scared that
you’re going to blog about it.

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Rebecca – the balance of how photographs are
viewed/perceived

Linda – the issue of things that are being put out there
- the issue of fake Twitter accounts

Nadia – For a while now, it was only friends, but now we
have to deal with other people who don’t love us – how might you want to
approach that once you deal with this industry.

MORE QUESTIONS

Because your identity is online – mini-celebrity –
you’re out there. People come up to you is like wearing a name tag.

Is it odd-creepy that somebody recites your life.

Nadia – you put it out there because it’s a tool for
conversation. A lot of it happens on DMs. She learned a lot about people when
she went to the Obama Inauguration.

Jenn – she has been noticing that people are noticing
her more. She finds it a little odd – she is not used to it. Now Jenn’s Dad
reads her blog (which is printed). It’s a lot of adjustment to get used to.
People follow you online. You don’t realize how much information you put out
there.

What are things you’ve done online that can help.