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The majority of those who will read this are “90’s kids.” Therefore, while we may have spent the first few years of our lives in the 20th century, but we are more familiar with the 21st century- a century characterized by tragedy and accomplishment, just like any other, but also the advent of an era of social media and facilitated networking.

Well, for the past month, 7th graders at BSGE have been learning about internet safety. We had to make an avatar as our final project. so, here is my avatar. well you may be wondering, what is an avatar? are you talking about the blue people? the answer is no. an avatar is an online identity that reveals your personality but does not put you in danger on the internet. an avatar will keep all private information private and only will show what your personality is. so i made my avatar on http://www.faceyourmanga.com/editmangatar.php.

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Responding to Opinion Pieces

In “The doctor will see you now — on the Internet”, by Kevin Pho, from USA Today, the author talks about the newly growing trend of doctors seeing patients online. He explains that even though these online doctor visits are very efficient both in time and money, they can be miss many aspects of the patients problem. Also, due to the lack of information that an internet doctor can get through these webcam appointments, the doctors usually just prescribe drugs as a kind of fallback.

In Lori Andrews essay, "Facebook is using you" from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/facebook-is-using-you.h... .The Author talks about how Facebook is not only a social network to interact with friends but it can be used against you if your applying for a job or can be used to find your location and personal information.

Recently, I read an article which really made me think about the future of technology and whether it is helping, or hindering our intelligence. Specifically, the author named ‘Google’ as the culprit of decreasing our potential to read long pieces of writing. As I started to read the book 1984 by George Orwell, I noticed a significant correlation and it brought somewhat of an epiphany.

I have just read an article entitled, "Blog Etiquette or Blogtiquette" on the blog, Tip Junkie (http://www.tipjunkie.com/blog-etiquette-or-blogtiquette/).

I have been thinking a lot about this topic recently, especially as I am watching students enjoy writing online sharing their ideas with one another.

I am wondering:
- Do you feel that these rules are true? Why?
- Do you believe online writers should follow these rules? Why?
- Which rule(s) seem(s) most important? Why?
- Are there other rules you feel should be included, which are not mentioned in the article?

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It is interesting to note the current battle newspapers are involved in. They are fighting to stay alive. But is that what the public really needs (or wants)?

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/52842845-79/twitter-paid-tweets-tweet...

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This is a video about the effects of Internet and Gaming addiction. This video is relative to today's modern culture and how much of an affect the internet and gaming has had on the youth of the 21st century. There have been consequences to this addiction, some minor and some severe, but nevertheless the problems have been growing and accumilating.

Loss of privacy is when the information a person enters into a website is leaked to outside sources. For example if you post a picture onto a photo sharing site with the intention of it being viewable to only a small group of people. They do not expect the photo to be seen by the rest of the world but unfornately this has become the norm unless the user sets specfic privacy regulations.

Cyberstalking is a form of stalking where technology is used. Stalkers would use computers or phones to access information  about the people they want to stalk and it is hard for people to know that they are being cyberstalked. The first article is about a retailer who is charged for cyberstalking and sent up to 50 years in prision but was allowed bail. The second article was about how cyberstalking has gotten a lot easuer with google profiles. In google profiles people can post their information and have random people view theiur information which can easily lead to cyberstalking.

On C-Span's program, The Communicators (2/5/11), Deborah Wheeler spoke about the use of the Internet in recent unrest in the Middle East and government efforts to block access by citizens.

Today I went to the computer labs at my school to do school work. When I was searching for things on the internet a lot of the sites that had information were blocked. My question is should schools really be censoring the internet as much as they do. I know there are a lot of bad things on the interent but not all things they block are that bad. Such as certain game or information sites aren’t bad but they block them anyway. I understand them blocking the games so kids aren’t goofing off while they are doing school work but some of the information sites they block there is really no reason for it.