Sunday, January 29, 2012

Singer's argument

I am a little bit skeptical about writing this paper on Singer's piece.  It was easy to read in the beginning, but I have to admit, once it got to the WikiLeaks part, I definitely started skimming and skipping some paragraphs.  All together though, I definitely think that Singer has a good point in his paper.  Today at lunch, a couple friends and I were talking about facebook and the repercussions it can have on your future.  It's no secret that employers do background checks on applicants including searching facebook.  I personally do not have any pictures of me drinking on my facebook.  However, I do have pictures posted at parties, and when I don't have a drink in my hand, there are many in the background.  In all honestly, at some of these places I hadn't even drank, but how would a perspective employer know that?  Pictures leave everything to the viewers interpretation, which is really scary.  Someone can easily judge your whole entire character through the pictures you have on facebook, although it may not be accurate, that's what they get from them.  The topic came up about what will eventually happen to our facebooks?  I'd like to think I won't be on facebook my whole entire life, but, my mom has one at 52, maybe I will.  I don't really want to have pictures of college parties on my facebook when I am an adult with a career and family.  But how do I change that?  Sure, I could go and completely delete my facebook...but those pictures are still out there.  Half of them I didn't even put up myself and others people have copied onto their own pages.  These pictures are out there forever...regardless if I decide at one point I don't want them to be.

Basically, this whole concept of revealing yourself to the whole entire world through the internet, and never being able to take it back, is what Singer's paper is about.  Privacy has become extremely limited in modern society and this greatly affects our day to day lives.  I'm wondering if I can write my paper on something like this?  Even though it don't have to do with WikiLeaks..it has to do with the importance of reputation and how you display yourself through the internet.

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