Reading Response # 5

This article is very interesting. This article brings up many things involved with the privacy on the Internet and social networking sites. I personally use the social networking site Facebook so I can relate to what Facebook shares with everyone and what pops up on the news feed. I do not like that every time I choose to update my status or change something on my profile everyone of my friends will see it pop up in their news feed. I can see why people where so outraged by this when it first came out. In the section titled Generation Google I find the author to be especially vocal about his opinion, I feel like his view on the subject really comes out in this section. He lists things in a way that make him sound like he is worked up about the subject. I do agree that younger people are growing up with this as a norm and how it can effect our reputation, which is a true detriment. Our reputation is everything; it is how people view us as a person, and now even if we are qualified for certain jobs. We all like to say we don’t judge people by what we hear are see but the truth is subconsciously we do. I do not know a single person who could see someone they went to high school with who is now pregnant and not judge. I also found the section about changing the laws that surround privacy to be every interesting. I did not know how the U.S. stood on the subject of privacy online, however I do know that privacy is a lot stricter in Canada. This past summer I visited my family up there and I noticed the differences in the social networking sites that they use and the information that can be viewed. I think that the laws in the U.S. do need to be changed or updated. The times are changing and the laws need to be set in place to safe guard us against all these new things that are becoming social norms.