Wednesday, July 3, 2013

privacy

Privacy, as related to new media is a very touchy subject. The importance of privacy to us is very high. New media gives us the freedom to express ourselves, and to be able to show our opinions in many ways. But it also takes some of our privacy. Before new media, for someone to breach your privacy they had to have some sort of physical connection with you, now they can breach your privacy through the new media tools that we often use. For example, we often post videos on youtube, comments on facebook and pictures on instagram that can easily be used by someone else, for good or bad who knows, but they are accessible by others. Our information, our every day activities are on these new media tools and they can easily be used by others to breach our privacy. The funny thing is, we do not care, because we continue to use new media like social networks and continue to put out all of our information without caring of the consequences

1 comment:

  1. I agree we dont care and big part of privacy issues and new media is how we handle our information. We love to post where we are, where we live, work, pictures that should not be shared, etc. If we learn or were more aware of how we use this networking sites and we protected our own info we will be better off.

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