Privacy, Online & Off

 How do these issues affect you? You friends and family?

These issues affect me, my family, and my friends for many safety reasons. For modern technology being improved over time the government knows entirely too much of what happens behind closed doors in everyone's life. It is really dangerous for police stations to make assumptions about who people are based on a social media account. Technology has the ability to find out everything about anyone's private life and it is very scary. Also, strangers can find hidden information about me, my family, and my friends and that is why it is very dangerous how much social media has impacted people's lives. Once something is uploaded to social media it is out there forever and it is never deleted. There is a way for anyone to spread things online, make fake accounts, bullying, and blackmail. It is never a good thing to be in any of those situations with it all being online because it really does not go away. 

What should the government be doing about these issues?

The government should really ban social media because it is ruining people's lives. There is a lot of negativity on social media which comes with a lot of opinionated things as well.  The government should really step forward and take action to help people with all of these bad things happening online. People's private lives are being spread all around online and it is not safe for others. There are dangerous people out there who cannot control themselves with their actions. It is very important for the government to step up and make sure people have private accounts and ban fake accounts on all social media. They do not know who is behind the screen when people are communicating online. That is why the government needs to make sure adults and children are being protected online with anything that goes on. Age does not matter in this situation because people's private information is a serious issue. The government really needs to take charge and be on top of the latest that is going on social media. 

What can we do to protect ourselves from invasions of our privacy?

To protect ourselves from invasions of privacy everyone should have private accounts on all social media platforms. There are always spam accounts and people trying to be different people online so it is very dangerous to have accounts open to the public. Anyone in the world can reach your account and find all information about someone and that should be private. There are not only adults online there are many kids who are starting to be on social media as well. These kids' parents need to make sure they are monitoring who they are talking to and what they are watching because it can be a lot of inappropriate stuff. Kids should not be talking to strangers because nothing good comes out of that. People need to be protected and respect others' privacy, but when everything is out on social media is it very hard for all of this to happen. People need to be safe with what they are putting out online because everyone's information needs to be protected from others.