Blog #9- Privacy

 After listening to the assigned TedTalks it is hard to believe the little to no privacy we have, even if we think we do. Growing up in an era that technology was developing gave me some sort of insight on how to behave and treat the internet. It was always ingrained into my head that you can never take something you have posted online away. Whatever I wanted to post online, I always had to ask myself am I ok with this being permanent and the world being able to see it. This from the start put a bad taste into my mouth when it came to any sort of social media platform as I saw no benefit as a 13 year old when the media started booming. Yet as time went on and the more people that began to create an online presence started to make me feel okay about it. Privacy being invaded on social media and just the internet in general has been a common theme while growing up. My friends and I used to google our names constantly because we wanted to see what would show up after googling. The friends that were careless and posted and or were tagged in photos they didn't want many to see were broadcasted to anyone who typed their first and last name into a search bar. This terrified me and I have always been conscious of what I put out on the internet under my name. 

Nowadays it is common to talk about your “fbi agent”, this is someone we believe is listening to us all the time through our devices. This seems too good to be true as curated advertisements became scary. Advertisements for products I have spoken to my mother about pop up on her feed and mine just purely off of a verbal conversation. This is not normal and is frightening to many who don't know how their facebook feed would know they are in the market for a new coffee machine. Anything and everything is always listening, trying to get you to buy their product is the number one priority. The tricky part about this all is agreeing to the terms and conditions on any internet sight. This is something everyone clicks over as they just want to get into the app and skip over the terms. With a click of a button you subconsciously are just giving them all your information and privacy on a silver platter. Large platforms such as Facebook and YouTube hide clauses about the lack of privacy within these terms and conditions as they know no one looks closely enough to them. When it comes to current day internet and privacy you just have to assume and expect there is none. People have coped with or thrown the idea out of their head that they have no privacy when having an online presence. Yet, some people find it worth it to maintain a presence in the media, and or just don't care. I will find it interesting to see how the media evolves and if this issue of privacy on the internet will ever be resolved.