Wednesday, July 14, 2010

June Ang


Qns: Is privacy still relevant given today’s hyper-connected world of online social networking?

Yes. Privacy is still needed for everyone, even though online networking is super outgoing. Who don’t need privacy? Even kids nowadays also will require for privacy from their parents.

As more and more people are realizing, we often reveal a lot of information about ourselves when we go online, information we may not realise we're disclosing, but which advertisers and commercial websites can use to sell us goods and services. Other times, websites and advertisers seem to magically know our interests.

They can do this because of cookies, little text files created on your computer that contains information left there by the websites you visit.

These people are really very irritating! We all need our privacy. Daily calls or emails have seriously invaded others privacy which is really rude and uncivil.

Above situations is outsider who invaded individual’s privacy, but there is any problem with privacy issue which is self-examination.

Online networking has brought us many benefits such as contact easily with family members and friends. As well as knowing your friends better through varies networking like Facebook or blogs.

Let’s take blogs as example. Firstly, blogs is like a website or a net working place for people to voice out their opinions or thoughts. Sadly, people miss-use the advantage of blogging. People intent to type out ALL their feelings and thoughts, some are not even relevant. These people creates “no” privacy for themselves. Don’t they need privacy? Why must let others know ALL about you?

Privacy is very important. Everyone needs to have privacy.


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