[Big Brother is Reading your Blog]

The article that i have chosen to respond to is out of the reader, titled:

"Big Brother is Reading your Blog" (Kharif, 2006)

This article mainly goes through and reveals that social networking sites are popular nowadays and is used vastly. It reveals that it is not only teenagers that blog and post personal information online, but the fact that when people post it, are they aware of who is looking at them. The article outlines those potential university tutors, campus police, employers are often viewing what people have posted on their blog, such as MySpace and Facebook. This often preached the privacy of people that blog; this then leads to the issue of ethics. The article reveals that people often do not that care about where they information is going and who has access to it.

The article mentions many different ways around, people being caught posting personal information, techniques such as disguise and fictions, where when they write they add fiction within their blog story to cover up the true identity. Other techniques such as bait and switch, ‘report the creeps’ is also mentioned. The article also constantly reminds readers that there are identity thieves and sexual predators. This once again, shows that ethics and privacy is the main issue. Then resolution was mentioned at the end of the article by revealing new tools such as automatic scanner and new social-networking software which then helps readers to be smarter in protecting their privacy.