Over the past few weeks, the topic that has been most fascinating to me has been social media. I think this topic appeals to me because MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter are all social media outlets that have blown up during my late teen years, and into my 20’s. It is amazing to look back and see how far along these social media outlets have come, and to see how much of an effect they have on people’s everyday lives. I am definitely guilty of checking my Facebook on my IPhone several times throughout the day. I think the most fascinating part about these social media applications is the ability to keep up with the lives of people you may not necessarily have any contact with if it wasn’t for the sites. These social media outlets have also made it easy to send invitations out to large groups of people, or to send private messages to just a select group of people. The concept of being able to see where people have “checked in” sometimes make me worry about the security of our world. It seems to easy to think that someone can basically track you down based on a GPS location service activated through your social media outlet.
Another topic that interested me was hacking. I truly find it hard to believe that someone who is trying to hack a company is not out to try and harm the company in some way. Hackers follow their own code of ethics and believe that what they are doing is not illegal, however; the outcome almost always affects a company in a negative manner. In the hacker’s world, I believe Anonymous holds a lot of power, because people are intrigued on finding out who exactly would openly attack major corporations like that. Companies pay a high price for security nowadays, because of the increasing chances that their website may be hacked, or important employee information may get leaked outside of the company.
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