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The First Amendment Constitutional Implications Of Facebook And Myspace And Other Online Activity Of Students In Public High Schools, Brandon J. Hoover
The First Amendment Constitutional Implications Of Facebook And Myspace And Other Online Activity Of Students In Public High Schools, Brandon J. Hoover
Brandon J. Hoover
My paper, entitled The First Amendment Constitutional Implications of MySpace and Facebook, will explore what constitutional issues may arise through the use of social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook. The paper will begin with an explanation of social networking websites; how such sites were developed, how many users each cite has, and how such sites work. The central focus of the paper will be on youth who use such sites. After laying the basic framework of what these sites are and what they do, the paper will next turn to the First Amendment issue of free speech. Some …