As I was going through and checking to make sure I had completed my blogs required for the semester, I noticed that I failed to post one for October 28. Considering it was a "free" assignment, I decided to end this semester's blog postings with a free topic. (So there are 2 blogs for this week).
I think it's important to see all the topics that have been researched concernign the Identity, Privacy, and Safety of the internet, recapping what we have learned. It's clear that these issues are completely relevant concerns for this generation of internet users.
We began the semester by observing how many different kinds of users are constantly on the internet: professionals, stay at home moms, kids, etc. We can now understand how monitored we are in our uses of the internet, and we viewed a cartoon displaying the downsides of the internet, specifically in the social networking world. There is much need for caution when browsing the web. We saw (with Pinterest) how the internet allows people to express themselves similarly as they do in Facebook or MySpace, posting things which they find interesting, explaining more of who they are. And finally, we ended by understanding again how prevalent the internet is in our society. So much of what we do is online, and so much is easier because of the internet's availability.
The internet does allow people to express themselves, developing their online identies. As people begin to post more and more on the web, the article mentioned in this week's previous post discussed the necessary concerns. Every day, the line blurs between fame and privacy-invasion. As our culture moves to exponentionally rely more upon the internet, the wisest thing its users can do is show caution in what information they choose to reveal to the public world.
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