Facebookistan

Facebookistan

I feel as though I have the right to some amount of privacy on Facebook. They allow users to set their information on private and limit what some websites can gain access too. The podcast (which was ridiculously long) mentioned the problems with privacy changes happening sometimes over night. From personal experience I had set everything on private only to soon realize (after I was being harassed by someone) that my settings were changed without my permission. 

This is where my rights and responsibilities come together.

I have the right to privacy and to connect with people that I know but must also take on the responsibilities to constantly check my settings. I am one who has everything I can, set on private. (why share information with strangers?) Another responsibility of mine is that I need to keep in mind that I should not place anything on Facebook, Blogger or any other internet website that I would not want the world to read, hear, or see. As much as I enjoy Facebook I see the many problems that occur. Harassment, bullying, and hate groups happen on here as much as it happens in person and that people have ways to get around privacy setting and gain access to all of my information. My responsibility is to realize what goes on the internet is out there for the world to potentially see.

This ties into the class in that Facebook and Blogger are new and developing ways to get information and to spread information. People are using these things for more than logging daily activities, pictures, and keeping up with friends. People are connecting from all over sharing, ideas, facts, opinions. Keeping that in mind, Facebookistans need to be careful with how they post information, ideas, or facts. One final thing that connects to the class (which I am VERY annoyed by) is that with every click that I make it is added to my filter bubble further narrowing the types of information that is offered to me. Learning about filter bubbles was very interesting but at the same time I feel like I would have been better not knowing about them. I cannot help but think about what all I have missed out on in researching for papers, projects, and even looking at the news.

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