Privacy and Social Media

1) After reading our lecture 8 items and watching The Curly Fry Conundrum, discuss the term "self regulation".

Self-regulation is simple idea that is sometimes overlooked. It is when people heavily evaluate, analyze and think before posting something on social media to best help them play a safe and professional role in the internet. Everything that we post online is a footprint in the digital world. Retarget marketing is when companies take what you have been searching online and advertise or recommend certain things to you. This goes to shows that what you look up online even in the privacy in your own home is recognized by people out in the real world. So be very careful.

2) Currently, there is a huge battle between 1st amendment privacy, information sharing, and data mining online. In your opinion, should we do away with online privacy and self regulating? Or should the government step in and start regulating online content?

This is a very touchy and complex question right now. People want privacy online to help protect their children and loved ones, however corporations want the data from millions of people to advertise and help reach certain markets. Take google for example, when people search certain types of content on the web this really determines the SERP for future content. This means that this person will be in their own little filter bubble of searchable content that is based off of their past history os searching the web. I think that people need to have the choice of whether or not their information is trackable or not. However this can also be threat to national security. I also believe that being able to see what kind of things people are searching can give the government great leads to keep people safe and sound. In the end I think that people's information on the web (besides emails) should be public information, mostly for security reasons.