Social Media and Privacy

     The article relating to this topic titled, "When Rape Goes Viral" is a very interesting article. I talks about how social media may be helping catch the attackers but at the same time it is ruining peoples lives. These videos and pictures being posted on social media are very disturbing and it is even more disturbing the way people respond to them. The way the information is shared is just a click away and it can be shared to the entire world. The people who are re-posting and sharing the videos and pictures are just making them even more public and the chances of the attackers to be caught is increased. This also increases the amount of people viewing the videos and can be harmful to the victims. They do not have a say in whether or not the videos or pictures are posted and who sees them and that can have a huge affect on the victims. As we see in the article many people take their own lives because they are so affected by people who have seen these videos. So there are two sides, one where the criminals can be caught due to social media, and the side where the victims are exposed and their privacy gone.

I Have Nothing To Hide

     The internet is full of people and some may say they care about their privacy and what they choose to share, others may say they have nothing to hide. The people who say that they have nothing to hide may also think that it will not affect them if they do share information. With social media everywhere people are using it all the time. People who say they have nothing to hide may be sharing information like their own views and opinions on certain matters. Just those things can affect a person because people can look up this information anytime they want. What if you were at a job interview and they looked up your Facebook page and saw things that you may have posted about your previous job? In my opinion it is not a good idea to share everything because it may not affect you now directly but it may in the future without you even realizing it.  I am concerned about privacy and I do not think that all information needs to be shared. I also feel that all of our information that we search for needs to be recorded on the websites we visit. I mean like Google and Amazon recording our histories and then advertising them while we are on other sites. It is distracting but people may agree to this while signing up for things and not reading Terms and Conditions because of the length alone is very long. Hidden in these agreements can be things concerning the use of your information if necessary but if it is not read than people will not know what they are agreeing to.

Living in a Networked World

    The internet is used for so many different purposes. Everything ranging from shopping to social interactions and gaming. One of the aspects of the internet that I find interesting is the way it remembers information. By that I mean you can look something up on amazon or google and then exit out of the application. Then when you return to another page on the internet you will see adds pertaining to the information you previously viewed. I understand that what you may have viewed on the internet is available to be retraced but I think it can still be seen as a kind of invasion of privacy.
   
     When something is looked up on amazon or google or any shopping networked it may be remembered by your browser. Products may not even be added to you cart and they are still remembered and advertised to you. Even if you are on a website that does not have anything to do with these other products you previously viewed they may still be advertised. I just see them as a distraction. I was interested in this product before and no seeing things related to it being advertised right there is obviously going to catch my eye. If anything these are more of a benefit to the sellers than the buyers who are getting distracted on their computers.