Part 0 Online Gay Social Networking Sites: Effects and Marginalization

The existence of online networking sites tends to be invisible as it becomes a natural part of our culture. However, there were only few studies made to recognize the growing issues related thereon. We have the study of social networking by Danah Michele Boyd on “Friendster and Publicly Articulated Social Networking” (2004), Adam Thierer on “Social Networking and Age Verification: Many Hard Questions; No Easy Solutions” (2007) among others. Moreover, seldom has tackled the issues on the online gay social networking. Thus, this paper tends to focus on online gay dating sites, the trends, how the users utilize the possibilities of social networking, and present some issues resulting thereon.