Privacy is dictated by what you share.

                This past week we talked a lot about what privacy is and how it is managed on the internet. Many of the Facebook posts talked about the ignorance of people and what they feel they should post and how it can affect them professionally and socially. While this has never been a personal issue it is easy to see from the numerous reports over the years of people losing scholarships and even the example used in class where the girl cost her father over $80000 because her post violated the non-disclosure agreement and voided the settlement that they had paid out. One of the more interesting things that I read was in my article and they stated that the internet had a hard time determining privacy levels because many different cultures halve different standards and the internet is where they all meet, so it is difficult to know which standard to go off of. We also had a good discussion about oversharing and how that affects people’s privacy. The most accurate meme of the class was shown this past week and it was that people used to get mad when you read their diary and now they get mad when you don’t pay attention to their posts about some very personal things. Oversharing is also a dangerous practice because it allows others to potentially get into your personal life and use it against you or thieves can even know when you are not home and they can then target you. Privacy is also violated all the time by the search engines that you use because they store and sell your data this is the same as people spying on you and giving your personal information to telemarketers. It can even be considered worse because the ads that are tailored to you show up and are very hard to block. Overall this past week had some interesting discussion and its important to remember that once its shared it is out there forever.