The Shannon Weaver model still applies to modern communication in a way, but it needs potential artificial and real parties to be added to the diagram. It really is only a tiny piece of the total modern communication diagram. The missing parties have the potential to change, redistribute, or destroy, duplicate, and mingle information before it reaches an expected, but unknown number of receiving parties.
There is a new communicating agent in the mix of sender, receiver, and the technology between. There are now artificially intelligent communicators that can continue to transmit and even produce information which can be relayed many more times and long after a message is sent. The information can transform and take a life of its own through multiple receivers and senders. We've crossed into an age where information is recorded, saved, and transmitted so easily that one can even do so unintentionally or barely intentionally. Human existance is slowly developing a parallel information mirror that exists as an ephemeral phantom in both the digital world and our mass consciousness.
To some degree the transfer of information has become as difficult to control as the viral life forms it is often compared to--closer to as contagious and indestructible as ideas themselves. As we build a mass memory of millions of servers, it becomes impossible to destroy all the copies, and our mass digital mind resembles both the cell-divided complexity and the interconnectivity of a single biological mind.
Monday, December 13, 2010
The Virtual Socialite 11.2
Online socialization has become so important in our communication that to different extents, a person's online life is a reforged extension of their personality. These semi-alter-egos, or 'avatars', are a formalized version of the way we want to be seen by others. Online avatars provide a whole new set of advantages and disadvantages when it comes to interpersonal communication--for some it's an attractive and addictive social tool--for others it can be a time-consuming distraction.
Online life in the game world is a glimpse at the future. Games like World of Warcraft and Second Life may seem like an excessive distraction for a subculture to some, but the same people who consider WWC a waste of time log in to Facebook every day to communicate with their friends using their own online 'avatar'. Facebook users share the experience of using Facebook, while WWC users share the experience of playing WWC. Our online depiction of ourselves is often a few shades off from the truth in these settings, if only from a lack of face to face reaction and physical, unintentional transfer of information. Online worlds make our 'friends' conveniently available but more ignorable than they could be in a face-to-face encounter, and this makes it an attractive means of socialization.
Facebook is a lot like a social 'game', with real life ramifications. When compared with World of Warcraft, a MMORPG, the only thing that's really missing is the fantasy world 'work' of the online hobby gaming aspects of WWC system. And considering the metaphorical and dramatic way in which people often distort their personal image on facebook, it might as well be a 'fantasy' environment itself.
How different is choosing one photographed depiction over another to represent 'the real you' from choosing a character to represent 'you'? Really it is the same, considering that both are an avatar--they are a somewhat strategic digital face for a person, but are not that person.
As socialization becomes electronic, it becomes apparent that it can easily become a game in itself. Facebook may be a prototype for social gambling within a system of rules. Just as economy is fused with an artificial system of rules in a casino, so facebook structures socialization into 'gains' and 'losses', with real-life changing results.
Online life in the game world is a glimpse at the future. Games like World of Warcraft and Second Life may seem like an excessive distraction for a subculture to some, but the same people who consider WWC a waste of time log in to Facebook every day to communicate with their friends using their own online 'avatar'. Facebook users share the experience of using Facebook, while WWC users share the experience of playing WWC. Our online depiction of ourselves is often a few shades off from the truth in these settings, if only from a lack of face to face reaction and physical, unintentional transfer of information. Online worlds make our 'friends' conveniently available but more ignorable than they could be in a face-to-face encounter, and this makes it an attractive means of socialization.
Facebook is a lot like a social 'game', with real life ramifications. When compared with World of Warcraft, a MMORPG, the only thing that's really missing is the fantasy world 'work' of the online hobby gaming aspects of WWC system. And considering the metaphorical and dramatic way in which people often distort their personal image on facebook, it might as well be a 'fantasy' environment itself.
How different is choosing one photographed depiction over another to represent 'the real you' from choosing a character to represent 'you'? Really it is the same, considering that both are an avatar--they are a somewhat strategic digital face for a person, but are not that person.
As socialization becomes electronic, it becomes apparent that it can easily become a game in itself. Facebook may be a prototype for social gambling within a system of rules. Just as economy is fused with an artificial system of rules in a casino, so facebook structures socialization into 'gains' and 'losses', with real-life changing results.
GrooveShark 10.26
www.GrooveShark.com is an online company/application devoted to the online uploading and streaming of music. It was originally created by three University of Florida students who had a concept for an online facility for the resale of used music files. The original concept would facilitate legal 'used' cd resale digitally. This concept changed as the idea expanded.
In the current version, a Grooveshark user uploads music from their personal collection to an ever-expanding online library of digital music, which can be instantly be shared, accessed and streamed. A user can create a browser operating library of songs similar to iTunes without downloading any content onto their personal machine. Artists can simultaneously be searched, discovered, and enjoyed in an all-encompassing, easy online application.
Grooveshark has a policy for fairly compensating artists for their work if they are contacted about use of the product, and honor all DMCA copyright infringement claims and take-down requests. Their copyright page seems to state that if they are not contacted, they are protected by fair-use laws, as the content is user-uploaded. They state in their copyright section that they would much rather pay an artist than take down their content, and encourage artists to get in touch if their work is uploaded by a user.
Grooveshark makes all of its revenue through artists' promotional adds and $3 monthly fees that 'VIP' members can pay for an enhanced searching and listening experience. VIP membership removes the ads from the site, allows access to the Grooveshark desktop and phone apps, and expands the online 'favorites' and 'playlist' libraries, along with other features.
For what at first seemed like a shockingly liberal approach to streaming massive amounts of copyrighted MP3 content, Grooveshark seems to have covered all their legal bases and made the music experience all around beneficial for artist, user, and company alike.
In the current version, a Grooveshark user uploads music from their personal collection to an ever-expanding online library of digital music, which can be instantly be shared, accessed and streamed. A user can create a browser operating library of songs similar to iTunes without downloading any content onto their personal machine. Artists can simultaneously be searched, discovered, and enjoyed in an all-encompassing, easy online application.
Grooveshark has a policy for fairly compensating artists for their work if they are contacted about use of the product, and honor all DMCA copyright infringement claims and take-down requests. Their copyright page seems to state that if they are not contacted, they are protected by fair-use laws, as the content is user-uploaded. They state in their copyright section that they would much rather pay an artist than take down their content, and encourage artists to get in touch if their work is uploaded by a user.
Grooveshark makes all of its revenue through artists' promotional adds and $3 monthly fees that 'VIP' members can pay for an enhanced searching and listening experience. VIP membership removes the ads from the site, allows access to the Grooveshark desktop and phone apps, and expands the online 'favorites' and 'playlist' libraries, along with other features.
For what at first seemed like a shockingly liberal approach to streaming massive amounts of copyrighted MP3 content, Grooveshark seems to have covered all their legal bases and made the music experience all around beneficial for artist, user, and company alike.
The Memex
Vannevar Bush had a jaw-dropping amount of foresight when he described the course of science's compression and cataloging of human knowledge.
His 'Memex' is a prophetic description of the modern-day desktop computer--a device that calls compacted pages of information from sharable micro-libraries. More astounding--Bush predicted, in 1940s terminology and practical application, a system of sharing and linking information comparable to our modern-day internet. He even described a search-engine/wikipedia-style of navigating and building on the 'web' of information in which the pages of microfilm could be explored based on trails of relevance and even 'bookmarked'.
In fact, Bush basically describes all of the elements of a modern-day website, right down to the 'back to top' button and the ability to leave comments for others to reference.
The article also predicts the wide-spread use of the barcode, the scanner/printer, voice recognition, and a microfilm version of the digital camera. He even predicted things that are recently accomplished by current research, but look to be imminent to widespread use, such as the interfacing of the brain's electrical signals to command machines. The man was truly a visionary, whether his contemporaries could see it or not. I would be interested to see responses from his colleagues to his optimistic speculation on the course science would lead us in.
This article is important--it provides thrilling insight to how science can make what seems like the material of fantasies into reality, with a little imagination and time. After reading it, i'm full of speculations about future possibilities in the electronic world of knowledge. Now that we have our endless library, we have to learn to navigate it and consume it more effectively. Could search engines develop to instantly construct reliable, specifically taylored chunks of information to the exact thing we're thinking of learning? And could we one day develop the ability to take information directly from computers into our brains, navigating and swimming through information effortlessly? The possibilities seem endless now, looking at the leap technology has taken since Bush's day.
His 'Memex' is a prophetic description of the modern-day desktop computer--a device that calls compacted pages of information from sharable micro-libraries. More astounding--Bush predicted, in 1940s terminology and practical application, a system of sharing and linking information comparable to our modern-day internet. He even described a search-engine/wikipedia-style of navigating and building on the 'web' of information in which the pages of microfilm could be explored based on trails of relevance and even 'bookmarked'.
In fact, Bush basically describes all of the elements of a modern-day website, right down to the 'back to top' button and the ability to leave comments for others to reference.
The article also predicts the wide-spread use of the barcode, the scanner/printer, voice recognition, and a microfilm version of the digital camera. He even predicted things that are recently accomplished by current research, but look to be imminent to widespread use, such as the interfacing of the brain's electrical signals to command machines. The man was truly a visionary, whether his contemporaries could see it or not. I would be interested to see responses from his colleagues to his optimistic speculation on the course science would lead us in.
This article is important--it provides thrilling insight to how science can make what seems like the material of fantasies into reality, with a little imagination and time. After reading it, i'm full of speculations about future possibilities in the electronic world of knowledge. Now that we have our endless library, we have to learn to navigate it and consume it more effectively. Could search engines develop to instantly construct reliable, specifically taylored chunks of information to the exact thing we're thinking of learning? And could we one day develop the ability to take information directly from computers into our brains, navigating and swimming through information effortlessly? The possibilities seem endless now, looking at the leap technology has taken since Bush's day.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Gamers are a Proud Subculture
Wiley's introduction was very well thought-out, and in my opinion very true in a generalized, categorical way. However, in terms of defining an entire generation, labeling ours as the 'gamer generation' is a lot like labeling the boomer generation as the 'hippie' generation or the 'free love' generation. It applies to a group of conspicuously different individuals whose values truly are reflective of an overall change in culture, but who are an extreme example of that change.
Though the boomer generation in general represented a new pattern of thinking in American culture, to say that music, sex, and drug use was a way of life for all boomers would be ultimately wrong. By the same principle, to say that video games are a 'way of life' for the current generation--the 'information' or 'internet' generation--or to call them 'gamers' because of the video game trend, is something of a misconception.
Gamers are a specific subculture that take great pride in what they are. Like bikers or rock musicians, there can never be a 'gamer generation'. Thats like saying people growing up in the fifties were 'the greaser generation', or that anyone with a motorcycle is a 'biker'.
I play video games, as a result of the electronic cultural wave that is a larger cultural change. Video games, however, are the first thing I habitually cut out of my life, and i rarely have time for them. I know enough Gamers, and they would laugh at me calling myself a 'Gamer'. If i started playing games all the time, I would still be a 'noob' for a long time before I would gain any respect from real Gamers.
There are more widely used names for our generation. A few of them are:
The Information Generation / iGeneration
The Millennials
The Echo Boomers
Generation Next
Generation Y
Though the boomer generation in general represented a new pattern of thinking in American culture, to say that music, sex, and drug use was a way of life for all boomers would be ultimately wrong. By the same principle, to say that video games are a 'way of life' for the current generation--the 'information' or 'internet' generation--or to call them 'gamers' because of the video game trend, is something of a misconception.
Gamers are a specific subculture that take great pride in what they are. Like bikers or rock musicians, there can never be a 'gamer generation'. Thats like saying people growing up in the fifties were 'the greaser generation', or that anyone with a motorcycle is a 'biker'.
I play video games, as a result of the electronic cultural wave that is a larger cultural change. Video games, however, are the first thing I habitually cut out of my life, and i rarely have time for them. I know enough Gamers, and they would laugh at me calling myself a 'Gamer'. If i started playing games all the time, I would still be a 'noob' for a long time before I would gain any respect from real Gamers.
There are more widely used names for our generation. A few of them are:
The Information Generation / iGeneration
The Millennials
The Echo Boomers
Generation Next
Generation Y
Monday, November 22, 2010
Internet Privacy
My parents were incredibly distrustful of the internet from the first dialup aol service we tried when I was four years old. Back then we were worried about getting viruses from floppy discs, which seems silly now, but they were not nearly as searchable and accessible to users as they are today. I remember my grandfather teaching me the rudiments of navigating MS DOS (which i only used to load games) and how complex it seemed just to navigate file paths and understand the contents of a floppy disc.
People have always understood the dangers of internet use. Social applications, however, seem to 'trick' people into letting their guard down. Because these applications are so personal, people seem to assume that they have a sure way of protecting information. This sort of thinking is a myth in the same vein as 'it must be true or they wouldn't put it on television'.
I've been pretty careful about what goes on my personal pages. But no one can have control of what others post of them.
I've googled myself before, but this time I found photos of me in the google image results that I never knew existed from a festival I played at years ago. Its not a problem for me, but candid photos appearing on the internet unannounced can represent a major privacy infringement if the conditions are right. Once it was only celebrities that had to worry about published widespread slander, but now its all of us.
People have always understood the dangers of internet use. Social applications, however, seem to 'trick' people into letting their guard down. Because these applications are so personal, people seem to assume that they have a sure way of protecting information. This sort of thinking is a myth in the same vein as 'it must be true or they wouldn't put it on television'.
I've been pretty careful about what goes on my personal pages. But no one can have control of what others post of them.
I've googled myself before, but this time I found photos of me in the google image results that I never knew existed from a festival I played at years ago. Its not a problem for me, but candid photos appearing on the internet unannounced can represent a major privacy infringement if the conditions are right. Once it was only celebrities that had to worry about published widespread slander, but now its all of us.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Internet Privacy
There is a lot of controversy going on regarding internet privacy right now. The real truth of the matter is that even though most websites have statements that they are protecting your privacy, they can't. Unless the site is encrypted, your information is unsafe. Recently, a programmer named Eric Butler created a program called "Firesheep." Its an extension of Firefox that allows any user to acquire login information of anyone on an unencrypted website (i.e. Facebook) using a wireless internet connection. He claims that he did this in an effort to expose just how unsafe your information currently is on the internet.
I would hope that my information wouldn't be sold on the internet, but I know thats not the case. Websites seem to lie all of the time about privacy policies. Even some sites that you would think are trustworthy tend to slip up.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Privacy setting
I googled myself and got some facebook pages. and then i immediately changed the privacy settings right after so that wouldn't happen. I always knew for a fact that what's on the internet is no longer just mine so i never put anything too personal. I never wanted someone to be able to look me up and get my life story. And if i ever wanted to post on some random topic forum or anything i just used an alias. There's no point in ever putting your real information because the internet is about what you say not who you are.
I expect there to be some sort of privacy in certain aspects of the internet. For example online shopping would not exist without privacy. If anyone so much as suspects that the site they want to put their credit card information on isn't very secure, they will go find another site. Online shopping wouldn't exist without a guarantee that peoples information will be safe.
Facebook used to have privacy settings that claimed they own the rights to everything you make public and can use it whatever way they want, but once you delete your Facebook all rights become invalid. Now the privacy settings take off that last part and this made a lot of people unhappy. But in my opinion Facebook is smart. They don't deserve to be sued for peoples stupidity. If there's something on Facebook someone doesn't want shared, they shouldn't have put it there in the first place. And honestly I highly doubt anyones information is even worth looking at. They probably talk about trivial things like parties and people they like. Anything worth much more than that shouldn't even be on Facebook.
Man......I just googled all over myself
So Googleing myself has vastly improved over the last year. Thanks to all of my social media I have a whole page of Google with links to me(except for some random guy that whose middle name matches my last). Its nice to see that my web presence is up since I work mainly online but It does make me a little paranoid that someone may be able to use this information against me.
As far as any kind of expectation of privacy from the internet goes, I really don't have any. The internet is like a big city in that once you step into it its hard to be completely unnoticed. And having a social media page is like having a billboard of yourself for all to see. Ultimately it is you that decides what is on that billboard and as long as you take responsibility for what is up there then you should be ok. I dont expect the internet to protect me from myself.
As far as any kind of expectation of privacy from the internet goes, I really don't have any. The internet is like a big city in that once you step into it its hard to be completely unnoticed. And having a social media page is like having a billboard of yourself for all to see. Ultimately it is you that decides what is on that billboard and as long as you take responsibility for what is up there then you should be ok. I dont expect the internet to protect me from myself.
Privacy
I google'd myself and found exactly what I expected - a LinkedIn profile and a recommendation I wrote for a friends portfolio. I am not surprised about these findings, nor was I nervous to see what was out there. I have no expectations of privacy online as I take the better-safe-than-sorry approach. Just don't put anything compromising in cyberspace and all is good - just be smart about it.
With that said, it does bug me a little that Google uses my information/search history for targeted ads. A smart business model but bugs me nonetheless.
With that said, it does bug me a little that Google uses my information/search history for targeted ads. A smart business model but bugs me nonetheless.
Privacy
After searching my name on Google, Sammi Luu, I’m not surprise to see other as Sammi Luu out there and I notice two of the links are mine. The first link is my Twitter account and the second link is my website, which is under construction. I always keep my online presentation clean and positive because I know employees sometime check your background. But the truth is my personality is like, "what you see is what you get", therefore I don’t worry much.
The Internet is an open source for everyone (advertisements, social networks, corporation, etc). I believe that it is hard to have privacy on the Internet. Whatever social networks you join, you’ll have to follow their term of services such as Facebook who has all the rights to own your photography or artwork. Therefore, I always take precautions of what I post on Facebook or other social networks especially my artwork.
The Internet is an open source for everyone (advertisements, social networks, corporation, etc). I believe that it is hard to have privacy on the Internet. Whatever social networks you join, you’ll have to follow their term of services such as Facebook who has all the rights to own your photography or artwork. Therefore, I always take precautions of what I post on Facebook or other social networks especially my artwork.
Privacy on the internet
The internet today leaves us with absolutely 0 privacy. If you have ever been on the internet for the most part, uploaded a photo, have a facebook, etc etc, you will be on the internet forever no matter what. Even if you delete all that you can personally get your hands on, it will never actually be gone. Some where far far away your information uploaded will be stored away into a harddrive until the end of time basically. Websites like facebook doesnt make this any better, its creepy to me actually, I dont know why they need absolute control and hold ownership to everything we do, I find it unnecessary.
Apparently I have no internet presence right off the back but that could be because a writer Kenneth Giles is pretty famous and he is taking most of the search query. However Im sure if I kept digging I could find something invovling myself but right off the bat there is nothing of me.
Apparently I have no internet presence right off the back but that could be because a writer Kenneth Giles is pretty famous and he is taking most of the search query. However Im sure if I kept digging I could find something invovling myself but right off the bat there is nothing of me.
Privacy Terms
Privacy is something hard to come by on the web. Especially considering much of the time spent on the web is on social networking sites. Sites like these encourage those using them to post any and everything about their life. Its part of the experience and fun of having a Facebook or Twitter account. With the increased amount of traffic to these social networking sites it no doubt becomes extremely hard to keep track of everything everyone post. This is most likely why Facebook has now changed its policy to saying that they own and can do anything with the content you post on their site. And while I want privacy just as much as the next person, and I want to keep my personal stuff to myself I can understand why Facebook has made this policy. At the end of the day Facebook is the one creating the site that you want to go on and once you put something on Facebook its like giving a photo to someone of yourself. They have every right to take that photo and do whatever they wish with it. Just like once you post something they have every right to take that photo and do whatever the want to with it. I think its hard to criticize new policy which states that they own everything you post forever. Because they are really looking out for themselves in case some type of legal case is thrown at them. However I do think that people should be careful about posting their own work on Facebook just as a precaution.
Googel Me.....
Since I always use my nickname JuJu I didn't think I'd find as much as I did. I googled my real name Judith Marquez and found only 35 others with the same name as me. The white pages appeared and I began to look through the list to find myself. There I saw my current age and the address to the previous college I attended. Then, there was a link to view more information of myself. There I saw all my relatives listed by both their maiden and married last names. It gave all previous locations where I had lived throughout the years. Lastly, there was a link with a check mark next to my current full address. Once clicked one is able to purchase my full address for a fee. This is extremely scary. I am not comfortable with the fact that just anyone out there and pay a fee of $10 to get my current location. It's not like it just has my address but also lists my entire family and all places in which I had resided at are at anyone's disposal. I could try and unlist myself but I'd have to pay a fee and still that is only to remove my telephone number. A person could even run a background check on me for another fee. Marriage records, divorce records, bankruptcies and much more information can be paid to view by anyone who is willing to pay. Realistically speaking once your information is out there in the web world there is really no way of removing it. I could find every which way to try and delete my complete existence from the web but in the back of my mind I know that this information is stored for life in some database out there. So much for privacy nowadays. After seeing all this information of myself online I realize that privacy is and maybe always was nonexistent. Before computer existed there were still issues of privacy but in today's society they should strip this word from the human vocabulary for this word holds no weight and means nothing to me much anymore.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Google Myself?!?!
I knew I would have some links when I searched myself I did not think as many as I had. When I googled myself I had 8 different links that had me or where about me in some weird way. Out of the 8, 3 were from school, and 1 was my twitter account that I only used for a week to experiment on and see how it worked. I also twisted it around and put in the name I go by on Facebook, Nosilla, to see how many links appear, 44 different links regarding Facebook and my page or the groups/fan pages I have made. My real name appearing on google? Did not scare me because it was to be excepted with what I have been involved in or do. Those 44 different links regarding people that I have interactions with on Facebook? Completely freaks me out.
I know a good portion of the sites I go to tell you when signing up (especially online shopping stores, which majority of the sites I go to are), and I except sites to be respectful of my privacy and what I wish to share is my own damn business and no one else. However recently, as many before have written about and read about Facebook is starting to become a death trap for people to wish to be private on the internet. They have taken what used to be fully protected to slowly taking away any privacy settings they have to know saying that they own the rights tot he things you put on their site. As much as they might say that that is not true, the proof is there in front of us. It comes down to this idea that they pretty much own your identity on the internet; and that should not happen.
I know a good portion of the sites I go to tell you when signing up (especially online shopping stores, which majority of the sites I go to are), and I except sites to be respectful of my privacy and what I wish to share is my own damn business and no one else. However recently, as many before have written about and read about Facebook is starting to become a death trap for people to wish to be private on the internet. They have taken what used to be fully protected to slowly taking away any privacy settings they have to know saying that they own the rights tot he things you put on their site. As much as they might say that that is not true, the proof is there in front of us. It comes down to this idea that they pretty much own your identity on the internet; and that should not happen.
to post or not to post?
As everyone else did... I googled myself and was surprised at how many things came up. First is my website, then Linkedin, and Facebook. I am happy about the website showing up, and Linkedin is all professional. I have a Twitter account that I do not use that popped up as well as my Coroflot website and my blog I created over the summer. None of this bothers me, I guess I was just surprised to see it all. I might be a little laid back, but I am not too concerned with anyone stealing my work or anything of that nature. Maybe I either have too much faith in people or am nieve to think no one would steal my work and use it as their own.
Thinking about this more and realizing there might have been some old bats in my closet, i decided to go through my old photos on FB from the college days. Nothing was terrible, but I thought, why not clean it up a bit. There is no need to have a multitude of binge drinking photos of me on the internet. I am not worried, but thought there was no harm in a light cleaning. I did recall once reading that once you upload on Facebook, it is FB property regardless of whether
I guess the way I see it, its life. You post stuff and thats about it. I am not going to throw up crime scene photos of the person I murdered last night, (sarcasm here)... but you get the point. I lead a good life and have nothing to hide. Whatever is already posted isn't going to cost me my life. So as for now, I feel ok... unless something else happens down the way that changes my opinion.
Thinking about this more and realizing there might have been some old bats in my closet, i decided to go through my old photos on FB from the college days. Nothing was terrible, but I thought, why not clean it up a bit. There is no need to have a multitude of binge drinking photos of me on the internet. I am not worried, but thought there was no harm in a light cleaning. I did recall once reading that once you upload on Facebook, it is FB property regardless of whether
I guess the way I see it, its life. You post stuff and thats about it. I am not going to throw up crime scene photos of the person I murdered last night, (sarcasm here)... but you get the point. I lead a good life and have nothing to hide. Whatever is already posted isn't going to cost me my life. So as for now, I feel ok... unless something else happens down the way that changes my opinion.
Privacy
I think the best way to look at internet privacy is to assume that there is none. If something goes on the web, there’s a good chance a lot of people will have access to it. When I google myself, most of the content that appears are my athletic achievements from college soccer and races I’ve participated in. Other than this content, there is a link to my LinkedIn profile. I am happy with online google presence and have no worries when it comes to searching for a job.
Facebook is a trickier subject. When it first came out, it was a place where college students swarmed to and posted about their lives, and a lot of times, the content was unedited in the sense that you didn’t think of what was going up at the time could one day not looks so great in a professional sense. I think present day, a lot of people now post with reservation. With all of facebook’s TOS changes and privacy policies, I think you need to expect that once something enters the internet, you won’t have property of it again. I think as long as you take this mindset and you have a certain expectation that everything on the web is fair game and accessible to everyone, you won’t get burned in the end. If you post unflattering content, you should expect that it will surface at one point or the other.
Facebook is a trickier subject. When it first came out, it was a place where college students swarmed to and posted about their lives, and a lot of times, the content was unedited in the sense that you didn’t think of what was going up at the time could one day not looks so great in a professional sense. I think present day, a lot of people now post with reservation. With all of facebook’s TOS changes and privacy policies, I think you need to expect that once something enters the internet, you won’t have property of it again. I think as long as you take this mindset and you have a certain expectation that everything on the web is fair game and accessible to everyone, you won’t get burned in the end. If you post unflattering content, you should expect that it will surface at one point or the other.
Privacy on the Internet
Personally whenever I create any kind of account on the internet I always personalize the privacy settings. This is not always the case with everyone. It is extremely easy to find information about people on the internet, google and other search engines have made this way to easy. All you need to do is type in the persons name on the search engine and you can find out all different types of information about them. When I googled my own name I did not find any relevant information about myself, I feel like this is because I have all of my privacy settings customized. When I googled one of my friends a lot of their information came up including facebook photos they were tagged in.
The only website that I could find information on was Spokeo, which is a website that tries to compile information on a family household. They tell where you live, how much your income is, how many kids you have, and what type of work each person does in the house. A lot of the information on this website is wrong about my family. But still being able to get this sort of information off hand is kinda crazy, and can become unsafe. This is especially unsafe for younger children.
The only website that I could find information on was Spokeo, which is a website that tries to compile information on a family household. They tell where you live, how much your income is, how many kids you have, and what type of work each person does in the house. A lot of the information on this website is wrong about my family. But still being able to get this sort of information off hand is kinda crazy, and can become unsafe. This is especially unsafe for younger children.
Privacy on the Internet
Privacy to me is very important when using social media such as Facebook. The idea that Facebook has the right to do whatever they want with my content is straight up bizarre. Why do they need it and what are they doing with it? Personally I am not as much as concerned as others should be. I think privacy starts with the individuals initial concern when creating an account on social networks like Facebook.
With Facebook, I would never post a bunch of pictures of myself doing wild things like some crazy night out in Vegas or that one to many beers picture. It’s that type of content found on Facebook that could possibly come back to haunt you in the future. As for sensitive information like my phone number, e-mail address and all that stuff, I’d never post that information for anyone to see. When it comes to social media, the user has to protect themselves.
Like many other social networks, the terms of service agreement are listed before you create an account, but who reads them anyways. For many of us, we scroll down as quickly as possible and hit the agree button with no hesitation. People always skip over the terms of service agreement. No one wants to read the agreement because it can be over-complicating to understand. Plus the terms can be like 4 pages of super fine print. Typically if everyone else has signed up for it (friends and such) then we sign up with no hesitation.
After Google searching myself I found one million one hundred and sixty thousand results under my name. Such results included the I Hate Josh Thomas Club, The Man In the box written by Josh Thomas, and a video of Josh Thomas singing to his dog. Fortunately for me, none of these search results have anything to do with me. Once I graduate college and start working in the field building a stronger portfolio, I’d obviously want my name to show up at the top of a search. For now, I’m cool with it not being there.
With Facebook, I would never post a bunch of pictures of myself doing wild things like some crazy night out in Vegas or that one to many beers picture. It’s that type of content found on Facebook that could possibly come back to haunt you in the future. As for sensitive information like my phone number, e-mail address and all that stuff, I’d never post that information for anyone to see. When it comes to social media, the user has to protect themselves.
Like many other social networks, the terms of service agreement are listed before you create an account, but who reads them anyways. For many of us, we scroll down as quickly as possible and hit the agree button with no hesitation. People always skip over the terms of service agreement. No one wants to read the agreement because it can be over-complicating to understand. Plus the terms can be like 4 pages of super fine print. Typically if everyone else has signed up for it (friends and such) then we sign up with no hesitation.
After Google searching myself I found one million one hundred and sixty thousand results under my name. Such results included the I Hate Josh Thomas Club, The Man In the box written by Josh Thomas, and a video of Josh Thomas singing to his dog. Fortunately for me, none of these search results have anything to do with me. Once I graduate college and start working in the field building a stronger portfolio, I’d obviously want my name to show up at the top of a search. For now, I’m cool with it not being there.
Google Me.. and Steal from Me?
When you google Angel Nelson you see exactly what I want you to see: links to my website, my graphic design portfolio site on coroflot.com and my LinkedIn. Well when I say you see exactly what I want you to see, that’s only halfway true because my website isn’t done, my portfolio contains old work, who knows what is on my LinkedIn. At the very least, when you google me you can find me pretty easily. My initial online presence isn’t extremely embarrassing or damaging. Before coming back to school, I really made an effort to clean up my online presence.
What reasonable expectation do I have for privacy on the web? I have little to no expectation of privacy. I don’t expect my pictures to be used in advertisements, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they were. That’s why I don’t upload many pictures of myself online. A month ago I had a privacy-related scare. I was playing Mafia Wars on facebook and noticed that a player was using my photo. I saw my face in the game and it scared me. I tracked down the player, which was kind of hard to do, and realized that it was most likely just a glitch on my end.
At the end of the day, my profile picture being stolen and used in a game isn’t that serious, but what if my digital design work is stolen? And what if it actually got a person a job? I would be mad if the job was better than the job I had lol. But seriously, anyone in the world could use my work as his or her own and I would never know. As digital designers, we need to learn what is legal, what's illegal, and how to protect ourselves. Digital work is easily stolen and manipulated everyday.
What reasonable expectation do I have for privacy on the web? I have little to no expectation of privacy. I don’t expect my pictures to be used in advertisements, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they were. That’s why I don’t upload many pictures of myself online. A month ago I had a privacy-related scare. I was playing Mafia Wars on facebook and noticed that a player was using my photo. I saw my face in the game and it scared me. I tracked down the player, which was kind of hard to do, and realized that it was most likely just a glitch on my end.
At the end of the day, my profile picture being stolen and used in a game isn’t that serious, but what if my digital design work is stolen? And what if it actually got a person a job? I would be mad if the job was better than the job I had lol. But seriously, anyone in the world could use my work as his or her own and I would never know. As digital designers, we need to learn what is legal, what's illegal, and how to protect ourselves. Digital work is easily stolen and manipulated everyday.
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