Once it´s published, you can´t take it back

This blog will wiew my thoughts about information privacy.

Culture is a comprehensive term, and it can be explained in different ways. Culture can be defined as shared ideas, values​​, attitudes, rules, habits and traditions. How does the information society effect our culture?

The alarm clock rings early in the morning, and we´re waking up to a new day. We sit at the breakfast table, eating and reading news on the web. Then we proceed to school and work. At school the education starts with a PowerPoint presentation that´s full of nice pictures, videos maybe, animations, links and so on. Later in the day we´re headed to our work after school. We´re listening to music and radio on our cell phones, and maybe we check the latest news on Facebook through Internet.

The computer is the answer to the technology age, just as the mechanism was the answer to the industrial revolution. The technology is everywhere, and there is no doubt that it´s changing our culture, our habits and our thinking around peoples private lives. Now a days almost anything get published on the Internet. My grandparents can´t wrap their heads around why some people will share private photos on the Internet for everyone to see, when you most likely wouldn´t even show them in your own livingroom. I can relate to their thinking, but there is a lot of people who don´t.

This article in tv2.no shows that the young Facebook-users is more conserned about their private information then we´re giving them credit for. I think young people who grow up in this new Internet-world now a days is quite enlightened about how they can protect their information privacy, but there will always be those who don´t think about these aspects as much.

The Internet is a big world with a lot of information. It´s hard to know how to protect your own information privacy, and still be able to use the Internet as a tool for sharing things you like with the people you know. As I pointed out above, there is probably a big number of Internet-users who doesn´t think about their information privacy before it´s to late. Once you´ve published something on the Internet, you can´t take it back. The video below show us how this works, and can give us all a wake-up-call about this topic.

A girl loose control of her picture