Read the article and discuss the privacy implications of social media and dealing with issues like the ones mentioned in the article.

The high levels of communication through social media has eliminated much privacy from users, whether they like it or not. Videos and pictures can be shared with thousands of people within a day, and continue to spread like wildfire. One of the most troubling problems with the issue of rape photos or videos being addressed, is that many of the victims are too traumatized and embarrassed to openly speak out against it. Like Kelsey, many victims keep their experience secret, and this leads to not much being done about the problem. Although nobody wants to be the girl in the video, even Kelsey acknowledged that if the video had spread further, this would have resulted in more people speaking out against it. To deal with the issue as a whole, there needs to be a widely acknowledged case that can show the incredible wrongdoings of not only the men in the video, but also the bystanders who decided not to take action. 

What are some reasons that we should all be concerned about privacy and how concerned are you about online privacy?
The United States is a nation that was founded on simple principles that have decided the direction in which the country has developed. Certain liberties such as freedom of speech protection against unlawful searches have been guaranteed to citizens since the formation of the country. With growing participation in social media and other forms of communication through the internet, the government has become able to monitor people's internet actions without reason, basically eliminating privacy on the web. This concerns everybody who is linked into the internet in any way. I personally have nothing to hide on the internet, but the information collected by websites allows for companies to advertise to you more intensely. Each person has their own profile that is used to target them for certain sales, and this information is easily accessible.

Introduction

I am very interested in this course because I am seeing an increasing trend in the use of social media and online collaboration, and I think that learning about how this behavior on the web can be useful in a business sense. Also, I am not very immersed in social media, so seeing the positive and negative effects of social media use is interesting for me.