Privacy
Today there are many issues of privacy and confidentiality related to new media. A lot of this is relevant to social media and networking platforms. In reality, there is no privacy. If we want to express or share content that is personal on social media you cannot expect privacy. The best way to have privacy on social Media is to refrain or be selective with what we choose to share. Once it it published or posted, it is not erasable.
I agree with the fact that privacy is simply a thing of the past. Today it's up to you to not post and publish something you wouldn't mind the whole world to see. It's unfortunate how many people don't really follow that rule yet, but it's something we have to live with in a connected world like today. I'd also like to bring up how it's not just up to you what gets published anymore. All it takes is a random stranger with a camera and access to the internet to share you with the world. It used to be that you could expect events to stay among friends or some of your public shenanigans to be a fun memory between only you and those who were there, but that is no longer the case. We really do have to live with permanence today.
ReplyDeleteThis is extremely true. It is scary to think about how everything we post online can still be accessed even with privacy settings. It's pretty ironic that social networking, a platform originally created to be open and free to express one's ideas has turned into a place where one must be consciece of anything one posts. Things that we post can be twisted or mis conceived by other users. Things we posted when we were young teenagers, not even of age to really fathom the repurcussions one could face for an idiotic post are especially volatile.
ReplyDeleteThis although extremely unfortunate, is also very true. Privacy in new media is practically nonexistent. Even the things that we think are being deleted, like our snapchat posts example, are still being kept in some sort of database or available to other after we think it is gone. Privacy is getting harder and harder to cling onto as new media continues to develop.
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