YouTube and User Invention

As I sit in the SAC department reading YouTube: Digital Media and Society Series" by Jean Burgess and Joshua Green., I realize that most social networks, including the YouTube community, are designed and built by the users. We already discussed how users have become producers in the digital age, but I never realized that facebook, YouTube, flickr and MySpace are simply platforms where we represent our identities and invent new ways to create identity online. I actually am excited to write this paper now. Weird.