Last Assignment

The topic for the last blogging assignment is given to your own choice.Among what we have discussed through the semester, pick one of the Internet topics which you think is the most relevant or affecting to your own life. Describe what the topic is, why you think it is so, and provide two relevant references.
Throughout the course of the semester, we as a class have talked about alot of issues and concerns that affect our everyday. For example internet privacy, was the most crucial to me, dealing with something that affects everyday life. Internet privacy consists of privacy over the media of the Internet: the ability to control what information one reveals about oneself over the Internet, and to control who can access that information. Many people use the term to mean universal Internet privacy: every user of the Internet possessing Internet privacy.
internet privacy is a strong issue that affects everyone including the ones that you least expect for it to happen. For example, there was a very known korean actress that was dispressed and fraustrated about what was being said about her on the internet; which smashed her name in the mud and she winds up killing her self over what was being said about her. If internet privacy was uncontrol i believe that this would have never happened to her and wouldnt allow her to do what she did. by her taking her life had a great affect on her family members and fans. Also another example of internet privacy that affected someones life was a yound girl that wasnt so popular in school, but had another identity on the internet that caused her to become more popluar than she was before. Her identity on the internet was a sexy model that wore lingerie and people loved her and thought she was hott; but then one day all her fame got destroyed. a male who was a fan of her work (pictures) had left his myspace page up on accident and his mother got a hold of it, and she reported the young girl. Her identity was exposed to everyone who thought she was beautiful and hot turned out to be the unpopular girl at their high school. By the fan's mother seeing her page her image that she has kept up for years had been ruined all because of internet privacy.
From those two examples that i have provided above clarifies why internet privacy has a major affect on peoples everyday lives. This is why internet privacy needs to be controlled better than what it is now..



source: http://www.variety.com/article/VR111799334...yId=25&cs=1
*** I cant find the link to the article about the high school girl, but it was discussed in a lecture.