Monday, January 14, 2008

Week 1 - What is the biggest issue facing blogging, citizenship and the future of media?

Now days, many internet users post their profiles, pictures and other personal information on their blogs or websites to communicate with others on a more personal level. Therefore, I think the biggest issue facing blogging, citizenship and the future of media would be invasion of privacy exposed online. For example, many young adults use Facebook to communicate with their friends and to meet new people online. However, the exposure of profile is not limited just to friends and almost any random person in any country is able to view and access these personal information. This is a violation to citizenship and personal rights and information. In extreme cases, this viewing of other people's personal information can even stretch out to acts of stalking and in some other cases the personal information can get into the wrong hands and can be used to commit fraud such as hacking of personal banking password, credit card numbers, and even social identification number. The future of our media can develop into either positive or negative ways. In the positive ways, through the wider use of internet blogging and personal websites we can globally interconnect with people all around the world and we can share many useful and diversified information with great ease. However, in negative ways, as this blogging network grows, there will be a much greater tendency for these Internet fraud, crimes, and wrong doings.

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