Victims of Lack of Privacy

        Social media, if it has done anything, has made the spread of information faster than ever. Twitter has become my number one source for news on celebrities, sports, and even the weather. With all this information spread it could be good to be in the loop about things so quickly. But, there are serious consequences to the spread of information as well. With social media, we see a lot of cruelty towards specific people or in cases peers. One person posts something and everyone see's it. Like the article "When Rape Goes Viral" we see that social media could have the ability to destroy lives. It's making it very difficult to hide things and keep other things in the dark.
        Social media in most of these rape cases has been a huge tool in figuring out who the perpetrators are and that is a beautiful thing. However, the not so beautiful part is that the victim no longer has privacy. With social media, pictures and videos, and even tweets about to event stream online for all of the victims classmates, peers, friends, who ever to see. This takes away all privacy and probably makes for some tough living conditions for the victims. Many probably want to try and forget and move on. With all the social media circulating around it is next to impossible to forget and move on for it is continuously in your face and everyone has seen the terrible event.
         One of the victims in the article was so traumatized by the events and that the whole school had seen pictures of what had happened that a week after the party the event had occurred at she committed suicide. She hadn't even told her parents what had happened. They found out later through the social media that was posted on the event.
        These victims aren't given the chance to move on and forget. They are forced to relive the torturous event. Privacy has become a scarce thing and its a shame that social media has been transformed into this intruding thing. The only positive i can relate to the lack of privacy in these types of events is when the Anonymous group got ahold of the information about the Jane Doe girl. They publicized everything so that justice could be served to those that committed this crime to her. When the victim saw the pictures of herself she was probably feeling horrible things on the inside but at the end of the day justice was served.

Terms and Conditions: I have nothing to hide.

        Many people, when it comes to the internet and what pieces of information of theirs is readily available for the world to see, feel like they truly don't have anything to hide. But lets be serious here for a second, don't we all have a few secrets we wouldn't like to get out?
       In my most recent Computer Science class, we watched a video that talked for an hour and a half about the troubles with "The Terms and Conditions" pages when making accounts. How many of us actually read them? I can tell you that I do not. But this video really got me thinking. It made me realize that maybe written in the fine print of some of these great long terms and conditions pages is something truly important. Most of the time when we are agreeing to these terms we are agreeing that any and all of the information in our profiles including pictures, conversations, and posts belongs to the company and another portion of those things can be used and given to the government. Is this a breach in our privacy? Yes, I think it is. Is it our own faults though; yes I think it is as well. We are the ones who accepted these terms. 
       I am one of those people that believe that within all of my searches on search engines, posts and conversations on social media that I do not have anything to hide. If the government got ahold of any of that information I don't think they could find any reason to arrest me or anything of that nature. However, needless to say a lot of other information about me because of these terms is out there for anyone to see, no matter how private you make it. If certain information gets into the wrong hands like my address, email address and other things of that nature i'm sure problems could arise. 
      We should all be a lot more concerned I feel with the things that we are posting to the web. Our lives are all over the place for everyone to see. No matter how safe we all feel and how comfortable we all feel, someone somewhere knows something about you that you didn't know. How safe could all that be ultimately? And if the government has control over all of our information through these companies could it later be used against us need something go wrong? 
        Right now, we might not feel directly affected by this and maybe years to come we might not either. But down the road I feel we all will start to feel the affects of losing our privacy. Anyone anywhere can know who you are. Things aren't kept a secret like they used to be anymore. Our lives are way to accessible and its nothing but our own faults. Our lives wouldn't be put out there... if only we read the terms and conditions. 

Ah, just like me to do half of the assignment and then forget to do all the rest. None the less, here is my first post for Computer Science. Hopefully I can get my head screwed on a little tighter and not forget the next time!