Privacy … or something like it
With the popularity of websites like MySpace and Facebook, social networking has taken the world by storm. Kids and sometimes their parents are naive about what gets posted and who sees it. What kids today don’t know is that there was a generation before them that was addicted to their own version of Internet contact called BBS’s. Only when I was chatting up a storm with people all over the world, during those digital bygone days we didn’t even know there was an Internet. Now with slick websites and the ease of uploading of quick and sometimes impulsive digital images, kids especially are putting things out on the Internet that they would never share willingly with their parents or even their teachers. There is a great article by Anna Quinlan on the subject of privacy. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13121946/site/newsweek/ Think about all the places a computer knows you from your ATM machine, grocery card, to Internet preferences. This article is an interesting look at the world of privacy or lack there of. So be careful what you put out there for the world to see because “Big Brother” just might be watching after all.
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