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This new app may be a great thing for family members, but it could put a whole new spin privacy issues. Taking a picture should be your own personal property. Instead it is shipped out to everyone within a certain radius of you who just happen to have the same software as you on their cell phones. Strangers could be receiving pictures from your phone that were not meant for them to see. This could cause psychological problems to a person because they no longer have control over things that they once did. Although it is not a popular thing yet, as we have seen with a lot of technology, it will grow into being a popular app. Even if people know the consequences of this app, they will get it because it is new and available to them. Once a picture is sent to people all over the place, you cannot 'take it back". At first people may not think that this is a big deal, but once they start experiencing it, there could be some major problems. By not knowing where the pictures you take are getting sent to, it could cause paranoia to set into one's mind. Paranoia is an ever-present feeling of suspicion towards others. After a person takes a picture for just their friends or family to see and it gets sent out to others, as well, that person may become paranoid that others are constantly looking at their personal pictures or that the strangers viewing those images are now negatively judging that person because of the pictures. Also, this device could be key in helping the process of stalking. The stalker can easily download this app and receive every picture that was taken from the person he or she is stalking. Again, this can create an onset of paranoia to the person taking the pictures. He or she will realize that people could have many pictures of him or her on their phones, hence causing a suspicion of people stalking that person.

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The need to belong is one of the most basic human needs. People become a part of different organizations to help fulfil that need. According to psychologist Jose B Ashford, of Arizona State University, there are certain reasons for people joining particular groups. The main reasons to doing so are: 1. to fulfill our need for affiliation, 2. to increase our sense of identity and our self-esteem, and 3. to obtain a greater sense of security or power. Although all of these factors can be obtained in real life, often people have trouble with them. In a person's mind he or she might feel inferior to their surroundings, whether it is because they are not fitting in at school, they are afraid of rejection if he or she were to join a group, or they simply do not see eye-to-eye with a co-worker. By joining a social networking site like Facebook, a person is able to obtain which ever need they desire in the comfort of their own home. They can connect with people to achieve intimate affiliation, they can post pictures to establish identity and receive comments about those pictures (example: telling them how good they look, ect.) from friends which will boost their self-esteem, and by having an online identity through Facebook, a person is able to control his or her own personal page to gain security and/or power. By achieving these needs, a person will ultimately feel better about one's self, whereas they may not have been able to through their own social environment in the "real world". They will develop a sense of belonging to their new created world and gain a feeling of acceptance.======

Myspace:
Although Myspace is a great way to keep in touch with friends and express one's self through pictures and text, it does not always serve this purpose for everyone. People are constantly being judged by how they look, act or feel. No matter what a person does, sometimes it is very hard to escape the cruelties that result from the judgment of others. Typically, this makes people feel depressed because they are not "fitting in". Once this is established, it is not easy for that person to make friends and fulfill their own social needs. A person cannot easily undo how they are viewed by others without altering their personality. By joining a social networking site such as Myspace, it gives a person an open portal to a new life. It allows that person to present themselves as whoever they would like to be. Most people who deal with this type of situation, create completely different self-images than the one they uphold in real life. This causes psychological problems because people can become addicted to their new, made-up life and forget about the "real world". Human interaction is essential to a person's well being. Without human interaction a person can develop depression, anxiety, or avoidant personality disorder, which is the most dangerous. With avoidant personality disorder a person is not able to engage in social situations or interpersonal relationships. This prevents them from living a normal life. Common symptoms a person can develop with this disorder are low self-esteem and suspicion toward others; both of which were mentioned previously. These two symptoms, along with the disorder, will hold a person back from having a good quality, healthy life.

Video Based Social Networking:
As technology gets more advanced, people in today's society are taking advantage of it. In the past, if you were not a professional film maker, making a video meant creating a home movie to document a vacation or using a camcorder to do a school project. Today, that has all changed. Video cameras are installed in computers, cell phones and iPods, all of which are portable and can be taken with you anywhere. Creating a video has now turned into recording yourself doing something that a person would describe as either talented, crazy, funny, disturbing, ect. and posting it on the internet for people all over the world to view. But if we did not have access to this type of exposure before, why do it now? Abraham Maslow, a famous psychologist in 1943 created a pyramid called Hierarchy of Needs. This is a simple 5 level chart that explained the needs of human behavior and why they do the things they do. The fourth layer ( meaning the 4th most important need in a humans life) is labeled as "esteem". This level explains that a person desires to gain self-esteem through the respect of others. At this level, if a person has a lower self-esteem, they start to crave glory or fame. By posting videos on a website such as [|Youtube.com], a person is able to gain that power of glory or fame after seeing how many viewers their video has received.