This helps call into question, when can a person ever have privacy over the internet or when using technology, the answer is complicated. On Facebook and Opt-out campaigns, you can control how much information is divulged, who can see your profile, or relay in opting out in ad information, that you have pop-up blockers installed that prevents you from seeing an ad or spam ad. On the other hand, with such few limitations, we cannot forget the thousands of other systems, websites, and people in place that will readily share and hack using programs to divulge and collect information about you without you even knowing. Like with Facebook, a photo can be tagged of you, without you knowing unless you sign up for notifications, a person can just do it because they believe it is of you. That is one hard thing to control and that is other people. Which brings me to my next point about wikis, if you are a celebrity, there is no sort of privacy on the web. Every personal life detail fact checked, what you have done in early, middle, and late career is made available. Not to mention, Origin about where one is born, who their families are, and relationships. These celebrities are not only the traditional singers, musicians, and people of substantive talent but it also relates to those on reality tv, their lives made available over tv, internet, wiki, blogs, and online media message boards for speculation.
Though privacy may seem like a thin line to walk on, when it comes to engaging in new media and the risks it runs, there are again privacy settings implemented by what you want to share or not on Facebook and Twitter. With Facebook being, the limitations or confidentiality you assign to your profile on who views what and with twitter, removing location tags on your tweets/posts. One can help themselves by not constantly placing themselves into exact details about themselves but try not to overshare everything about your life, and divulge what you are comfortable with people knowing and try to have an air of anonymity still. If applications ask of too much information, just do not give it and find another one that suits your needs. Also with video games, they have taken great measures of confidentiality and protecting gamers identities and safety. They have moderators 24/7 that can view conversations and ban people, or build in text filters that does not allow one to speak on where they live, work or go to school, sometimes not even their name. The game Toontown Online was very diligent in achieving these goals of anonymity and keeping the focus on the game and less on the people behind the characters. There are built in filters on words allowed or if a common phrase like "where do you live" or trying to say an actual actress is actually filtered and comes out as jumbles of animal sounds" (Well you do play an animal game character). Then you are immediately reported or kicked off the site right away for account review by moderators.
Although new media is great, one has to be diligent about their safety and oversharing information because information is easier to obtain about another person or sharing it even.
Works Cited
- Leaving ‘Friendprints’: How Online Social Networks Are Redefining Privacy and Personal Security. (2009, June 10). Retrieved December 1, 2014, from http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/leaving-friendprints-how-online-social-networks-are-redefining-privacy-and-personal-security/
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