Exam 9: Social Networking

____________________ involves placing banner ads on a social networking Web site.

____________________ is threatening behavior or unwanted advances directed at an adult using the Internet or other forms of online and electronic communications.

Briefly discuss some of the things that avatars can do in an online virtual world.

Cyberstalking is the adult version of cyberbullying.

Facebook spent two years purging potential problem members from its site, including over 100,000 registered sex offenders.

Outline some specific actions to take if you are a victim of cyberstalking.

_____ built a simulation of a Combat Information Center of a command and control ship for the Seventh Fleet in Second Life to provide a real-to-life training experience for its future operators.

Many researchers feel that the true extent of cyberstalking has been greatly exaggerated.

____________________ has become so intense that minors have committed suicide as a result.

Some virtual activities are clear violations of real world laws.

MySpace purged _____ sex offenders from its site over a period of two years.

____________________ is a social networking service that enables its users to send and read each other's text-based posts, know as tweets.

Currently, there is a fairly narrow range of interests represented in social networking Web sites.

____________________ encourages individuals to pass along a marketing message to others, thus creating the potential for exponential growth in the message's exposure and influence.

During the 2009 Iranian elections, Twitter emerged as a highly reliable and accurate news source.

Of those hiring managers who use social networking Web sites to screen candidates, over one-third have found information that made them drop a candidate from consideration.

Although Twitter is a very rapidly growing service, its founders have been able to manage the rapid growth with few start-up problems or on-going service issues.

Twitter text-based posts must be 140 characters or less.

Bad deeds done in a virtual online world can be mediated by _____, who can take action according to the rules of the game and with consequences internal to the game,

An advantage of social network advertising is that ads can be targeted to reach people with the desired ______________________________.