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Online Privacy

The threat of online privacy is growing everyday. I'm constantly broadcasting myself publically on facebook or any social network. My pictures of what I do, who i hang out with, and places where I go, are all on the internet. Somebody could simply look at my facebook and tell who i am and what kind of person I represent. I even had my address of where I live and my phone number on Facebook at one point, that's kind of scary to me. These days it's easy to find people and locate them, but does the whole world need to know everything about me. I realize that this is the age of information, but too much will result in huge online privacy problems and could result in destroying the web and net neutrality. There are ways to block others from gaining knowledge about you, but people always find a way around it with the internet being such a large place to do things. Not only is scary for others to view your information on Facebook, but it can become a problem when trying to get a job. Your employers can look at those pictures of you drunk at a party. this could result in you not getting the job or embarrasing yourself publicly.Online privacy is an ongoing problem and will result in major problems if something is not done soon.

A War We Can't seem to Win?

Cyberwarfare is the use of computer and Internet to conduct war in cyberspace. We created the internet making it available with very few limitations, and it seems that it could be very easy for someone or an organization to attack through Cyberwarfare. We are not winning this war, we are losing it as we speak. This isn't just any kind of battle, it's a battle where we don't even know who were up against. When dealing with the internet it's hard to find the main source of a threat or attack. Our national security has to find a way to stop these harmful threats before it's to late. We created the internet, so let's make sure it dosent destroy us. Many over our militaries weapons and secrets are run by an online source. If countries or terrorist found a way to decode our nations secrets and gained part of our military acess we are looking at a much greater problem than the word War.

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Digital Identities

Before Facebook and all this social networking we do today we communicated through person to person, a phone, or an email. Now we can communicate and share who we are and what we represent as a person throough social networking. When I first started using Facebook it was great because I could stay in touch with all my friends who were at home while I was in college. I used Facebook as a main communication tool on a daily basis and it almost seemed like I was addicted to it. When you set up your Facebook account you have the option of putting your full name, birthdate, where you live, and pretty much everything about you. But, what I and millions of others sometimes fail to realize is that this is our identity. The big issue about these social networks is our privacy and how to protect it. Our identity and lives our open to the whole global network which is a very scary thing. I have changed a lot of settings on my account in the past years to help secure my identity and have thought about getting rid of it totally.
Social networking has definitly changed peoples identities in the fact that it helps people feel important and wanted. It provides a comfortable environment where people can feel safe and known. As Americans we love to know what everybody's else is doing. We want to know where their at, what their doing, and who they actually are. Our digital profile has become a huge part of who we are. I ask myself a question when thinking about this, does our profile on facebook become us or do we become the profile? It's not as easy to answer as I thought.
Facebook has become such a reliant piece of our identity that people have taken it to a whole new level. I've seen people's postings arguing about who cheated and things that others shouldn't hear. A newsfeed can show all of that conversation to a broad audience of people that I know you don't to see. Pictures on facebook have ended relationships, marriages, jobs, and even ruined people's oppurtunities to get a job. Our social networking world has changed tremendously through technology and the internet. I don't think it's the technology that's harming us it's the way we abuse it and use it. The thing is that we can't do anything about it because it's growing at such a rapid pace and will continue to grow throughout the future.