Those of you who know me are very aware I embrace technology, to the degree my wife often refers to me as a "geek", in a loving way I'm sure........... So this is not an anti-technology commentary. And to further disclose, I could care less if Google, FB, Twitter et al knows what I buy or where I go to buy it. There are some benefits for all of us by 'some' tracking technology but that's another topic.
Web spy: Lesson of casual cruelty (an article from timesunion.com) about the 15 count guilty verdict in the Rutgers University student invasion of privacy trial.
This is an effort to point out potential pitfalls when using today's choice in communication, the internet... especially for young people. Please go to the full article and read it. See link below.
The purpose of this note is NOT to comment on the right, wrong, good or bad of the facts or opinions of this case. I it is simply to make us aware of life with technology and how we all need to be aware of what we do with technology.
There is an 'axiom' from the past that goes like this... "Don't say or do anything that you wouldn't want on the front page of the New York Times"... In today's world it's the World Wide Web, not the NYT and everything you say or show is there! "There," by the way, is an audience the size of millions of the New York Times. And what you say or show 'never' goes away.
There is now a place where employers, college, law enforcement, government agencies (even local civil servants) and others go to discover what we are saying and doing.
In the future we will see more instances of being held accountable (fair or unfair) for what we do with our technology. The decisions we make will, at times, have consequences. Trust me... I know!
This is the link to the timesunion.com article. It is a MUST read
http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Web-spy-Lesson-of-casual-cruelty-3414102.php
