NOTES:
Things that DID NOT surprise me:
• That they are talking about teenagers not being engaged in the family relationships because they are up in their rooms connected to the web.
• That students are having trouble in school because they are not able to concentrate.
• People are now using social networks to up their social status.
• That teachers are now really peaky with the cheatng because of all the opportunity to cheat.
• Now, teachers are usig webistes of their own to tract down cheating in student papers.
• Teachers now use the technique of making their students write their papers in class to take awaythe chance of cheating.
• Students are now having trouble managing their time because they cannot handle their responsibilities (because of their social networks).
• You are not aware of the people that are watching your posts.
• When parents think about social networks, the first thing that comes to their minds is: sexual assault and privacy.
• Cases of cyber-bullying have been emerging rapidley in the US.
• The majority of them ange not ended in suicide, but the rest of them have.
• Parents are know training themselves to able to understand tje social networking.
• Children hide their virtual life from their parents.
• Parents protect heir kids in extremist ways, and some are accepting of their children's internet life.
• It is a lot easier to fight online and not saying things to somebody's face.
• Internet is a double sided weapon.
• That students are having trouble in school because they are not able to concentrate.
• People are now using social networks to up their social status.
• That teachers are now really peaky with the cheatng because of all the opportunity to cheat.
• Now, teachers are usig webistes of their own to tract down cheating in student papers.
• Teachers now use the technique of making their students write their papers in class to take awaythe chance of cheating.
• Students are now having trouble managing their time because they cannot handle their responsibilities (because of their social networks).
• You are not aware of the people that are watching your posts.
• When parents think about social networks, the first thing that comes to their minds is: sexual assault and privacy.
• Cases of cyber-bullying have been emerging rapidley in the US.
• The majority of them ange not ended in suicide, but the rest of them have.
• Parents are know training themselves to able to understand tje social networking.
• Children hide their virtual life from their parents.
• Parents protect heir kids in extremist ways, and some are accepting of their children's internet life.
• It is a lot easier to fight online and not saying things to somebody's face.
• Internet is a double sided weapon.
Things that DID surprise me:
• Since I don't know how to use MySpace, I did not know that you could have an insult fight through this specific social network.
• Kids are now changng their identity to be able to "have" more finds, or at least the feeling that you have more friends.
• Internet sex predators nowadays are more dangerous than the lredators that used to sit down in the park bench.
• Internet sexual assault is caused by a sexual solicitation.
• Sexual danger is always more dangerous offline offcourse because it can only happen in a provate meeting, which is caused by the relationships the people build on the internet.
• People with eating disorders are now looking at websites that are glorifying their problems foe them to live easier with them.
• "Internet is written in ink". The majority of the things that you share on internet are unerasable.
• 1 in 7 kids said that they have been sexualty solicitated and they instantly delete them.
• Public life today is the things you have on social networks.
• Internet can be the gateway to depression and suicide.
• Kids should be seen as participants and not as victims.
• That parents are asking for thwir child's passwords sknce they can see their profile as a visitor.
• Internet created the greatest gap sonce the ages of rock.
• Little children are now having access to social networks like Club Penguins.
• There are chat groups in the internet about certain topics that people likes.
• Kids are now changng their identity to be able to "have" more finds, or at least the feeling that you have more friends.
• Internet sex predators nowadays are more dangerous than the lredators that used to sit down in the park bench.
• Internet sexual assault is caused by a sexual solicitation.
• Sexual danger is always more dangerous offline offcourse because it can only happen in a provate meeting, which is caused by the relationships the people build on the internet.
• People with eating disorders are now looking at websites that are glorifying their problems foe them to live easier with them.
• "Internet is written in ink". The majority of the things that you share on internet are unerasable.
• 1 in 7 kids said that they have been sexualty solicitated and they instantly delete them.
• Public life today is the things you have on social networks.
• Internet can be the gateway to depression and suicide.
• Kids should be seen as participants and not as victims.
• That parents are asking for thwir child's passwords sknce they can see their profile as a visitor.
• Internet created the greatest gap sonce the ages of rock.
• Little children are now having access to social networks like Club Penguins.
• There are chat groups in the internet about certain topics that people likes.
Things that have changed in technology since 2008:
• "Xanga", a social network, was used actively before. Nowadays I haven't heard of anybody that even knew about this social network.
• The cell phones used in this video are not used as much anymore (at least in my world) I haven't seen a person with those flip phones for a long times.• Computers and other technology devices have evolved software wise.
• The Facebook template has chaged a lot since 2008.
• Nowadays there are more ways that parents can track down the things their children do on the internet.
• YouTube nowadays has more restrictions aout the videos that cna and can't be uploaded.
• Ways that children can expose their private life on the internet have emegred. Even more than before.
• Now, it is not necessary to go on a computer since you can access the internet on a smartphone.
• Securtiy softwarees have been created.
• There are more social networks.
• Nowadays there is public wi-fi.
• Now, predators are able to hack computers and the information in them.
• Parents are having more control over the online world.
• There are parent groups that have reunions and they talk about theor children's lives on the internet.
• Governments are instituting special organizations that patrol cyber bullying. Colombia has one.
PARAGRAPHS:
1. What topic in the video sis you most strongly identify with and why?
I strongly identified with the part of the video about the boy that was refusing to give his password to his mother. I was in his situation many times when I created my Facebook about three years ago because my mother was asking for my password all the time to be able to see my personal things. The three girls talking on the video were in the same situation as the guy in the video and me because their moms wanted to take a deeper look in their personal stuff. I feel the same feeling like the guy and the three girls (whose names I do not remember with accuracy) because moms these days are so naive about the technological world that they want to monitor every single click their children make on the web because they think it is dangerous. Also, I would like to prevent the thing that happened to the boy I was talking about. I want to avoid a situation in which my parents find a video of me in a party or anything related to that and then making a reunion with other parents and sending the video via email to the parents of my friends. That is why I agree that parents should not have their children's passwords but they should be taking care of their children. I know that the purpose of this is to protect their children but if the parents trust their children in the first place, they should be sneaking into their personal stuff (in many countries that is considered illegal, including Colombia). If a child wants his/her parents to know something about their social network life, then the child should show the personally.
2. What topic in the video was the most UNLIKE to your own experiences online and why?
The topic in the video that was the most unlike to me was the story of Autumn Edows because I had never heard the story of a person that became famous by changing his/her identity. Here in Colombia, pages like MySpace are not very commonly used. When I saw the part where she said that she did not have any friends and that she wanted to become famous even if that costed to change her identity, she would, I was very stunned. I have never experienced a change in personality in exchange for fame and popularity and even less when it is popularity with people you don't even know, I think this is kind of ridiculous but it can change the life of a person, just like the girl on the video. Also, I have never encountered the page of some model (like Autumn Edows) or anything like that since technology has been a part of my life. Also, the pages that the straight A girl (can't remember her name either) was looking at (the ones that portrayed eating disorders as a good thing) are horrible because they are showing false things to their audiences. These are two examples of how internet can be very diceiving because you see pages like these of people and things you son't know, and immediately assume they are true. This is the source of many of the sexual cases that have been going on int he internet. People think that the people that they are talking to online are feeling real feeling for them.
4. What are the biggest benefits of being online, for you, personally?
Some of the biggest benefits of being online are that know you are more socially and actively aware of the things that happen around the world. You can go anytime to a news website and discover thing that you would have discovered ages before, this is an example of how ideas diffuse so rapidly. Also, being connected to a social network enables you to be out in the world by being inside. What I mean by this is that now the methods of communication are evolving so fast that know people do not have to send postcards or make long trips to see somebody because with all of the social networking there is nowadays people can meet and communicate a lot easier than before and that is beneficial. Also, for me being able to have so much resources to educate yourself and make projects for school for example is incredible because now teachers have more alternate and effective ways to teach and students have more alternate ways to learn than before and that is sign that the world is changing it's educational systems constantly. Taking a more specific look as to why it is beneficial to be online, I think that know there are many opportunities to get to know the university you want to go to. For example, software such as Naviance are now being used globally to explore collage options. Before people did not have those kinds of opportunities, but now you can be better prepared for you collage life; which is very important time period in your life. The last thing of this short list of things that I consider beneficial as to being online is the preparation that a person gets for a future world. We all know that the world is evolving and turning to technology, so being online opens the gates of many educational opportunities that may help us later. Starting now is not a bad idea, but it is never good to depend on technology.
