Wednesday, April 27, 2016

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

Thursday, April 7, 2016

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.