How has online networking changed the way offline engagements now work?
In the same way that social networking changed how we allocate time, crowdfunding will change how we allocate capital.
The drivers are complex and include a change in the sexual environment, with networks broadening through social networking sites, changes in sexual risk behaviors [ 59, 60], and the impact of modifying a simple "no-sex or condoms-only" instruction to more nuanced "safer-sex" messages.
The Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking outlined changes on MySpace to protect children from sexual predators and obscene content, including clearer methods of reporting abusive content and safer default privacy settings for users below the age of 18.
Nonprofit social networking site Change.org is launching this morning and hopes to change the way the average person or activist interacts with nonprofits.
And as the business models of social networking sites change and digital technology develops, could these innocent snapshots someday come back and bite our children on the behind?
"Social networking has changed the way we socialise – we've lost the ability to be open and vulnerable with one another, because we're always worrying about the permanent record," Chrys Bader-Wechseler told me recently.
3Com, a computer networking company, changed its accounting for the takeover of U.S. Robotics, a modem manufacturer, at the request of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which acted after the accounting was criticized by financial columnists.
