Tara Feliccitti Tech Blog Post

Online I am just one of millions of users with a private instagram account, you can see some prezis I did by myself and with kids from my middle school,  you can also some information about me that I would rather not share with the class.

Based on my online appearance I think people would perceive me as a typical teenage girl with social media accounts, but who also gets good grades and does a lot of different sports.

Before posting anything online the things that I consider are the following: what would what my parents say if they saw this, would colleges let me in based on online appearance, and would I regret posting this in the future?

The pros and cons of posting things online are that you get to connect with the people that you otherwise would not be able to connect with.  And also a con is that you cannot predict what will once you post something.

Lack of Control has an impact on our lives because you can’t predict what will happen once you post something online.  Permanence has an effect on our lives because you can never truly delete something once you post something online.  Immediacy has an effects on our lives as soon as you hit post your picture or your video is on the internet and can truly be taken down.

I think that social background checks for future employees are a good thing because employers are just trying to get clearer picture of who they are hiring.  

Free speech is the right to say whatever you want.  The part that is protected is the freedom to say whatever you want on the internet, when there is curse words involved.  The part that isn’t protected is the part on the internet where people make fun of each other on social media accounts like twitter and facebook.

An internet troll is someone who goes on the internet for the purpose of making fun of other people and getting in fights with them.

The goals of internet trolls are to make people upset and to respond to what they are saying.

We can stop trolling by ignoring all the internet trolls.

The pros of posting anonymously online are that nobody knows who you are.  The cons of posting anonymously online are that you can be perceived as a stalker because you’re anonyomous.