The online search assignment this week was really interesting but sort of alarming at the same time. It was surprising how easy it is to discover where someone went to school, where they live, who their family members are. It really only takes a few pieces of information (such as a high school or hometown) and a name to discover a lot of information.
It concerns me that so much information about me is available to anyone on the internet, but at the same time I am willing to have that information out there because I wouldn't want to give up the convenience of the internet. Like they said in Blown to Bits, it's really too late to go back and take that kind of information off of the internet. However, it is important to consider how that information should be used as more and more details of our lives become available online.
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