Journal Entry #7: Digital Access

The most surprising thing I found from completing this unit was just how hard some countries are working to get to at least sort of where are in the technological world. Living in this country where we don't have to work for anything can make you forget or not realize that the world as a whole is not like that. There are some countries where the majority of the population do not have an access to the internet, which can be kind of surprising to those who use the internet for hours everyday.

I found nothing confusing, and the only thing that was slightly difficult to locate was just bits and pieces of the information that needed to be located in the article.

I think that the internet is a tricky thing. Yes, it is unfair how some people can just logon to one of many home computers and just surf the net, while others would be lucky to even see a laptop, but I think the internet can ruin you. It is so easy to get caught up in it and to get addicted to the videos and the likes and the easy and quick connection you can have with almost anyone in the world. So to say that everyone should have a reliable and a fast access to the internet is a little hard, because when it is fast and reliable, it is easy to pay more attention to it and get sucked in.

I have never really been concerned with my privacy online because I always activate my privacy settings, which in a way means I am concerned. A way to prevent your privacy from being invaded online would be to activate the privacy settings that many people seem to forget about, and to not over share and post personal information about yourself that people really don't need to know.

I have never been worried that what I posted as a younger person and what I continue to post as a young person will come to bite my in the butt when I am older. I don't post a lot of things now, and those I do are mostly pictures of  the moon or how pretty the sky was. When I when I go back to the beginning of my Facebook when I was thirteen, all I can do is face palm because of how annoying I realized I was, but I doubt that will cause me any harm in my future.

I think the biggest issue with young people when it comes to digital access and privacy is that we don't realize that not everyone is like us. Just because you have a fast and reliable access to the internet doesn't mean everyone else does, and just because you would not invade someone else's privacy doesn't mean someone won't.