I am not a fan of blogging and I don't think that I will ever be. Writing my thoughts on a computer for the world to see is not really my cup of tea. I am a reserved person as is and I don't think that people need to know what I think about or my ideas on topics people do not care about. It's kind of like twitter. I don't need someone telling me that they are going to the bathroom or saying goodnight to the world. You get the people that are egotistical and think that everyone is hanging on their next word and you create people who think they are more important than they actually are.
I honestly believe that blogging creates no significant impact on our society but of course this technology will continue to gain in popularity. People want to express themselves and write about themselves at all times. This is why facebook twitter and individual blogs exist. To let people become self-involved and to show look what I am doing. It is quite annoying if you ask me but they are making millions doing this so it is hard to argue against it. Even the people who do food blogs come off as pretentious and snobby. I tried to follow some but people on them just ooze with the i'm better than you mentality and it is too much to get past to enjoy their blog.
Of course it is not a good thing that any one at anytime has the power to publish any idea or thought to the world. Is it a good thing that the KKK can spew their hate to the world. They are free to recruit new people and share their beliefs for all to see. This goes along the same lines of the recent outrage when bloggers hit the web with their racists comments of the Hunger Game Characters. The fact that people can write have a movie was ruined because a black person was cast just sickens me. These people are able to hide behind the cloak of the internet and can say anything they please. This is why such comments can exist because ideas that people would never say in public, are able to be written without any consequence from society.
It's great that we live in a free country where you can express your ideas but some accountability needs to start happening. When people are able to spew hatred and in some cases incite violence upon others, people need to start paying for their actions.
Monday, April 9, 2012
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Blog Assignment #8
I think that there is a huge privacy problem online but I also am under the impression that not many people really care enough to do anything about it. Take Facebook or pretty much anything online that you need to agree to the terms and conditions for. I recently downloaded the new version of Itunes and the very first thing you must do is agree to their terms and conditions. Obviously I am not going to read through the pages and pages of terms and so I really have no clue what I am agreeing to. But it is necessary to agree in order to use their service. You do have the option to not agree but then you do not get to use Itunes. So I am giving up my privacy rights because apple has hooked me with their product.
It is the same with Facebook but this is were most of my concern comes from. After our class on Privacy issues and talked about Facebook, I went home and checked my settings. Before they changed their policy, I had all of my settings set to friends only so that no one else could view my information. Apparently Facebook thought it was appropriate to circumvent my wishes so that all could see my info. Needless to say they got a very long pissed off e-mail to their support which they will probably trash without reading.
It is a concern that almost every where you go, you are probably being tracked but I don't see what we can really do about it. Sure we could protest or stop using certain products or services but there will never be enough people to agree with the cause to put a dent in any businesses. The government and companies will get what they want because if they don't they can just create law that will allow them to just like what the Patriot Act did for our government. So no matter what you do, you will always have big brother watching over our shoulders.
It is the same with Facebook but this is were most of my concern comes from. After our class on Privacy issues and talked about Facebook, I went home and checked my settings. Before they changed their policy, I had all of my settings set to friends only so that no one else could view my information. Apparently Facebook thought it was appropriate to circumvent my wishes so that all could see my info. Needless to say they got a very long pissed off e-mail to their support which they will probably trash without reading.
It is a concern that almost every where you go, you are probably being tracked but I don't see what we can really do about it. Sure we could protest or stop using certain products or services but there will never be enough people to agree with the cause to put a dent in any businesses. The government and companies will get what they want because if they don't they can just create law that will allow them to just like what the Patriot Act did for our government. So no matter what you do, you will always have big brother watching over our shoulders.
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