The future of technology is an idea that is forever expanding as time passes by. As of 2018, there are over 4.2 billion active internet users across the world along with about 3.8 billion active internet users using some form of social media. Additionally, new technologies such as virtual reality and robotics are slowly making its way to becoming normalized in today’s technological era. Studies show that majority of purchased goods will be through cryptocurrency, virtual currency designed to be used as a medium of exchange. All of these reveal the growing nature of technology becoming a strong influence on today’s society as well as the future’s. This raises…
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Online Protection – A Necessity
Throughout one’s daily life, one may send personal and private information through apps such as Facebook, iMessage, or even through email. While all these platforms provide instant messaging, there is a chance that it can be intercepted and someone you may not even know will have access to all the information sent through these platforms. To dive further in this idea, the video “Inside Hacking Team” from https://myshadow.org/resources/inside-hacking-team?locale=en, touched on the security of one’s email and how hackers have the ability to seize the metadata within a matter of seconds. This raises the question of how much more secure we have to be when considering the type of information that is…
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I Say That I Control My Digital Identity, My Laptop Says Otherwise
One of the major concerns about using the Internet is how much information and data is being stored. More importantly, how much of our personal information is being stored throughout the different websites that we use? Are we in control of keeping that information safe from other third party groups? Realistically, we cannot control our digital identity if we surf the internet on a day to day basis. You may have noticed some advertisements of those shoes you were thinking about purchasing instantly pop up on your screen while you are messaging friends on Facebook. How does this happen? Majority of this happens because of browser cookies and the Terms…
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Social Media and College Students – For Better or For Worse?
Social media can have varying results on the way students in college performs. Huffington Post article by Riley Griffin goes into detail on how the use of social media can impact the way college students deal with mental health issues. In this article, Griffin uses Sydney as an example of how she quickly turned to social media applications such as Instagram and Facebook as a way to deal with her anxiety of conforming to the college lifestyle. Clearly, this can pose as an issue for college students since they are relying on the lives of other people on social media to determine how they should go through their 4 years (or…
