Controlling a social situation in an effort to achieve privacy is nei-ther easy nor obvious. Doing so requires power, knowledge, and skills.
This statement proves to me the importance of why being careful online is very important. Privacy is hard to achieve and you have to be very careful with you you go about doing so.
There’s a big difference between being in public and being public
I never really thought about this comparison until now. I think it is very accurate. You can be online but not be public and i think that what is what many people are doing online. They are sharing things online and being in the network, but they are not being totally public about their lives personally.
Just because teenagers use internet sites to connect to other people doesn’t mean they don’t care about their privacy. We don’t tell everybody every single thing about our lives. .
I really agree with this statement . As a pretty big internet users, I still care about my privacy. I connect with others through social media and the internet, but I do not sure my entire personal life via the internet for privacy concerns. I think that teens and young adults are concerned for their privacy and safety online, for the most part.
The ease with which everyday people can share media online is unrivaled, which can be both powerful and problematic. Spreadability can be leveraged to rally people for a political cause or to spread rumors
This is a accurate statement. The internet is a dangerous but very useful place. It is helpful searching for information, staying connected with people and going about everyday tasks, but it is also a place where people can easily manipulate others and spread rumors or false information of people or ideas.
Teens are obsessed with connecting through social media. This idea that social media plays a crucial rule in the lives of teens and sometimes complements or supplements their face-to-face ideas is very accurate. Social media gives friends things to talk about. It keeps them connected and in the loop with what friends around them are doing. I think that it is a pathway to gossip for many networked teens.
The internet presented me with a bigger world, a world populated by people who shared my idiosyncratic interests and were ready to discuss them at any time, day or night.
I find this statement to be very true. The internet really does open society up to a larger world. It allows people to connect with others who they would not meet under normal circumstances with similar ideas and understandings.