blog assignment #9

Before taking this class, I never thought about blogging, I had neither read nor wrote a blog before this class.  It just wasn’t something that interested me.  Since I started blogging for this class, I found that blogging can be a helpful tool in making sure that you know what you are learning.  In that you have to take what you are learning and put it in your own words and relate it to your life. 

I believe that in the future blogging will neither increase nor decrease, I believe it will stay at roughly the same amount of usage as it is currently. Even though blogging can be a useful tool for learning, I don’t believe that it will catch on that it is.  Many people who are in high school or college, do not have the time to sit down and write a blog for all of their classes, between the class work for all of their classes and work, it is hard to have the time to sit down and do it.

Outside being a useful tool for those who are in school, I find blogging as away to express yourself.  Blogging is away for you to express what you think about, just about anything that you want to talk about.  Not everyone has to agree with what you think or believe, but you have the right to say it.  Giving people who think or believe what you do, away to reach out and have someone to discuss their belief.   Although this is a good thing, it can cause some problems, it could start a “war” between two opposing sides. An example of this is whether gays and lesbians should have the right to get married.  A “war” has started between both the opposing and supporting people of this topic, making it a problem in society. 

There are advantages and disadvantages to everything, even in blogging.  But just because there are disadvantages to blogging does not mean that it should be taken away, because it is away to express your First Amendment Right, the freedom of speech.

blog assignment #8

I am not highly concerned about people looking into what I do on the internet. I believe that it is an invasion of privacy, when the government can look to see what you have been up to on the internet, but even though it’s an invasion of privacy I understand one of the reasons why they do it.  I understand that one of the main reasons why the government looks into what we look-up online is that they are looking for terrorists and people whom are looking to harm the people around them.

When you start getting into the government looking into phone calls/texts, is where I start to have issues with it.  I believe that everyone has a right to their privacy, and when a person is talking on their phone they believe that they have the complete privacy that they were told they would have.  The government should not be allowed to do this, the only reason they have the right to do this is when they believe the person whose phone they are looking into is doing something that is illegal or has done something illegal.

Whenever I go to post something on my Facebook, I always think about if what I am about to post is something that I wouldn’t mind my mother, father, or grandparents to know. If it is something that I do not want one or all of them to know I don’t post it. I do this because I don’t want them to know then there is a good chance that I don’t want everybody else in the world to know.

I don’t believe that we as citizens should be concerned about the government looking into what we are doing on the internet, when it concerns what we are looking up on search engines.  They are only doing so for our safety. I don’t agree with the government looking into what we are doing on Facebook, sending through our emails or looking into our phone calls/texts.  Again they are only looking into what we are researching and who and what we are talking about, for our safety, but when is it considered “to far?”  When it becomes illegal to do it?