Week 10-5/11 Internet Crime

1) Please categorize “Internet Crime” 

Cyberbullying and harassment/Financial extortion//Internet bomb threats/Classified global security data theft/Password trafficking/Enterprise trade secret theft/Personally data hacking/Copyright violations, such as software piracy/Counterfeit trademarks/Illegal weapon trafficking/Online child pornography/Credit card theft and fraud/Email phishing/Domain name hijacking/Virus spreadingSource:https://www.techopedia.com/definition/26587/internet-crime

2) In each category, discuss problems  “Internet Crime” bring  to people’s daily lives as well as ways (security)  to prevent/solve them.

Problems:1.We cannot normally use our computers.                  2.We may lose some money or some important information.                  3.We feel unsafe.Ways:

Winnie:
Make sure your personal information are private, checking your security setting, and be careful what you are going to post online, because once you post it, it is hard to remove. Do not click a mail which is without address. Don’t click the advertisement on the networking page (if might be a access that criminals get your personal information). Also constantly update your security system, change your password and login details  frequently. A strong passwords needs a strong security system to protect, and also to be cautious when giving out personal information such as your name, address, phone number or financial information on the Internet.   Ting:There are several ways to prevent cyber crimes. For example, you can download some antivirus softwares, and keep updating it, which can protect your computer. Open your firewall. Be sure that it’s working.  And you can save your documents, photos, or some important information resources to different places, such as cloud, and you do some backups. Also, you can change your passwords. To make them be stronger, you should keep changing your passwords often; mixing some alphabets in to the numbers of your passwords, making them longer, and they could be complex so that they would be harder to hack in. Be aware of clicking in some websites. You may go into a phishing website, which is not true. And you should be careful of some fake messages like you winning a free ipod. JoyHave a strong password and change it more often.Strong password means having more than 8 characters and having numbers which are not regular ,letters and symbols.For example, ert921.com is a strong passwordBe careful what you post.Have a security software.Don’t tell your mail link website.Keep your personal information. SherryDon’t open the garbage mailOpen the firewallInstall anti-virus softwareDon’t post your identity information Daphne:There are different ways we can adapt to prevent those crime. First, we need to set our passwords stronger so that it can protect our accounts from being stolen. Also, install such software like anti-virus software or firewalls to make sure our security. Moreover, keep in mind that always make regular back-ups of all your important data, especially financial records. And, when using public wi-fi, although it’s convenient, be careful to avoid conducting financial or corporate transactions because it’s far from safety. Last, when it comes to prevent garbage mail,  never click into the link in those spams, and don’t even reply the email or it may disclose your personal information.

Week 9-4/21 privacy

1.What risks would be if you underestimate risks of privacy on the Internet?

If you underestimate risks of privacy on the Internet you maybe lose your privacy on the Internet.

2.Please evaluate yourself if you are risking of losing your privacy on the Internet.

I didn’t keep my privacy so well and I will remind myself never put my privacy on the Internet.

3.What would you do to balance “privacy” and “disclosure” on the Internet?

Privacy is something secret,which you don’t want some strangers know.

Disclosure is what someone through some ways to know your privacy and then tell to public. 

Week 11-5/5 Internet Addiction

How should school personnel and parents identify, prevent and educate students on the dangers of Internet addictions?  (choose 1 situation to answer) 

1. You hold the attitude as writer of "Altered State"  
Internet addiction is really normal nowadays. People live with electronic divices. People rely on them. People get used to it and can't live without them. It's really a normal situation that almost everybody happens. So, I don't think that it's a disorder. I agree with the writer of "Altered State."

2. You take Internet Addiction as a disorder
It's really bad that get addicted to the Internet. If you stare at the screen, your eyes would be getting worse. And as long as you get used to the internet, your brain will start to dull. Your brain will not work because you always search in the Internet whenever you face problems.

Week 8-4/14 Internet Privacy

Internet Privacy- Blogging
Q1: Internet relationship vs. Interpersonal relationship

Interpersonal relationship is the relationship between two or more people. Internet relationship is one of interpersonal relationships that people meet online. It is a new form through the internet to build relationship in such a virtual world.

Q 2~6 Discuss privacy ( read the next slide)

PRIVACY

Q2:what:some personal information 

Q3:levels:high medium low

Q4:risks to Internet privacy:

Your imformation will be gotten by others easily and maybe they will do something bad to you,maybe tell your parents you are in danger and kite.

Make people feel unsafe.

Q5:concern:real life implications:It is very important to protect privacy.If there is no privacy,we are exposed to the public and feel unsafe.

Q6:laws regulations:Privacy law is the area of law concerning the protecting and preserving of privacy rights of individuals. While there is no universally accepted privacy law among all countries, some organizations promote certain concepts be enforced by individual countries. For example, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 12, states:No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Q 7: What is/are your privacy policy/policies on the social networking sites?

1.Use aliases.

2.Don’t fill out personal information.

3.Set a password with high degree of safety.

4.Change my privacy settings.I can control who sees what.

5.Log out in public.

Q 8: What’s the rationale behind your privacy policy/policies?

1.Others cannot know your true name and your personal information online easily.

2.Others cannot get your password easily.

3.Strangers cannot see your information easily.

4.Your information will not be got by the next user.

Resources from:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy

Week 7-4/7 Intimate relationships

Intimate relationships 1. What is an intimate relationship you expect? 
As I imagine, we should meet at school, or in a company. Maybe some accident happened on the street, but not on the internet. And we become friends to know each other. If we match each other, we may have the opportunity to become closer.
2. Visit a dating website 
Yes, we visit some dating websites, such as "OKCupid."
3. Is the website you visit successful? 
Yes, it is successful. And there are several successfully married cases.
4. Why is it considered a successful dating website? Share a successful story. 
There are three successful examples in the following website. They all met their lovers on OKCupid and they all got married with they met, as soon as they met online and they got married.
(http://www.sheknows.com/love-and-sex/articles/1004111/online-dating-horror-stories-and-success-stories)
5. Discuss the negative side of Internet dating such as cyber sex, Internet affairs, and catfishing. 
Someone may give some wrong information.But you do not know whether it true or false.They may cheat your money or your feelings. Your information may be leaked. Some Internet dating website did Illegal prostitution.
6. Amy Webb: How I hacked online dating (https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_webb_how_i_hacked_online_dating?language=en) Here’s Amy Webb’s video for your reference. Internet dating has its positive and negative sides, Amy Webb also offers her personal experience. After learning all the above, are you going to bump your Mr. Right online or at least give it a try? Why? Or Why not?
Yes. I have more choices to bump my Mr. Right from all over the world. And it is really convenient to narrow the searching area according to my requirements.
I can easily get some information about the man I like and send e-mail to him to know more about him.

Week 6-3/31 Google+

Members: Ting, Winnie, Daphne, Sherry, Joy

Q1. Why I am able to be in the community before in your circles?

Ting: You don't have to be in my circles and I can just add you in the community once I have your account.

Tell me the differences between in your circles and in your community. tKs

Daphne: In my opinion, “circle” includes all the friends you have. As for “communities”, it’s more specific in some groups that you can choose to set as private or public.

Q2. I want to hangout with your community instead of individuals, how can I do?

Daphne:

First, you have two ways to go.

A member of us (for example, it's Ting.) could sent you an invitation to start a communication, or you may first sent it to anyone of us.

Next, please focus on the icon similar to a “camera” on the top of our communication window.

There's a image next to video camera with a plus, we just click it and we can “add friends” and create a new hangout.

P.S Also, more about “add friends”: you need to have our gmail or accounts in order to find us so that you can add us into the hangouts.

Q3 How do you define your circles? I am asking how do you categorize your friends in different circles?

Ting: I categorize my friends into several different group. Family, friends, and sisters. There are always something that you want to hide, and something you are interested in but not your friends. So I can separate them into different circles and they can see what I want them to see.

Q4. How does Google + ( all social networking sites) affect your interpersonal relationships?

Ting: Sometimes you may add some friends that you don’t know in your real life, and you should be aware of that.
Daphne: And, such terms like “hangouts” or “Google docs” are unfamiliar to me before, but once I start using this kind of social networking sites, I became used to and understand a bit more about it. That also offers me more ways to communicate with my friends online. By the way, this ability of co-editing is so cool.  

Joy:We can make more friends .It is convenient to share our ideas to friends whenever or wherever we are.So,if a friend is far away from us,we also can use social networking sites to keep our friendship.

Winnie: This kind of social networking website gives me a more efficient way to communicate

with my friends. I can chat with others without being face to face to them. That really save our time.

Sherry:We can connect  our friend more conveniently.And share our daily life in the  social networking sites,so that we can know our recent information to each other.

Q5. How does social networking sites influence your brain?

Daphne: The enormous information on social networking sites, to me, is stimulus. I mean the text, the picture, the video...etc.

Ting: we can accept more informations about what’s the hit nowadays. And we can know our friends life instantly.

Joy:So much information crash into my brain.But I cannot distinguish whether it good or bad.

Winnie: we can learn lots of information on the social networking sites but can’t distinguish if it is correct or not.

Q6. Discuss the positive and negative effects of social networking sites.

  (remember to find examples to support your points of view.)

• Positives :

Daphne: We thus make ourselves always keep track on the latest news. For example, by watching TED talk or CNN news online, we’re less likely to be isolated from what’s going on in the world right now. Or by following some celebrities, we would know the trends in that field.

Winnie : more efficient to communicate with friends (for example: you can use line, facetime,   web phone or send an email )

Can share the latest  informations and news (if you become friends on the social networking website with others or if you follow some official website, you can see their activity on the website. For example, facebook, instagram, twitter or google+)               

Joy:expand our horizon (someone will share something you had never know)

      It is convenient to  connect with your friends.(Just use your smart phone or computer)

      It is really cheap.(Most of social networking  sites are for free)      

Ting: you can connect your friends in more ways and that would be more convenient. (example: if you want to talk to your friends but he/she doesn’t answer on Line. You may try another such as, facebook, twitter, skype.)

Sherry:We can receive the latest social news(There are many latest news post on the social networking  sites ,and these posts are spread quickly.So that we can get these news quickly by the social networking  sites.  )

• Negatives :

Sherry:No personal privacy(because our basic personal information  

            can be searched by social networking sites.  )

Daphne: On the other hand, it’s possible that we might get lost on these social networking sites. Not only will we get addicted to it, but also will we be trapped in the danger due to its unsafety.

Ting: More and more business work is done on the internet. But when your work online, you might not concentrate on your workload. Maybe that would decrease your productivity while checking your Facebook.

Winnie: cyber-bullying (if you become known, there might be someone who hates you. People dislike you can give you some bad words without giving their name. And that’s possible to gather some followers.  For example, a Taiwanese celebrity suffered from online verbal attack and end up with suicide.)

Joy:It is not good for our eyes.(We need use social networking sites on computer or smart phone.As we all know,they have radiation.We should not use them for  a long time.)

There are many wrong information misleading you.(For example, long long ago, one of my friends shared an article that

Q7. Discuss the importance of  “images” on the social networking sites. How would users manage their images? What’re the tips to fix your selfies?

Winnie: colorful images can attract readers vision. The

Q8. Discuss “the real world” vs. “ the virtual world”

Daphne: Take making friends for example. Nowadays, many websites for making online friends have appeared, we may chat pleasantly on Fb or Skype, sharing our feelings to the one who you don’t even know. However, when it comes to meeting in the real world, it’s a totally different thing. It’s about our safety.

Sherry:In the virtual world,we can hide our identity.This makes some people commit a crime.

Week 3-3/10-Team discussion- A summary of the lessons in Week 1 and 2

Members: Sherry, Ting, Daphne, Winnie, Joy

Week1 What does the role that the Internet play in our life?

It gradually became our contents in conversation. And it also made our life more convenient and can chat even from faraway. What’s more, we compared the difference of chatting online and face to face. Through the internet, we can get some information about others.

Week2 Internet English

Some special term like "LOL" or “BTW” came our as Internet English appears. We are talking about the differences of face to face and internet English and I think face to face is hard to me because I will embarrassed to stranger. We have learned the history of internet English, too.

Summary

It’s true that Internet English really have an effect on our lives. We definitely cannot live without it.