The article The net is the real world shows us that the net brings out the realness in people if your not careful and especially with people you think you know.
The net is the real world by Jake Simms and Larry Magid is about how one college student Tyler Clementi ,who askes his colleagues for some private time in their dorm till midnight. His request was granted but not his privacy of his roommates had secretly placed a webcam that showed Tyler made out with another guy and was leaked out into the internet .Tyler found out about his roommates stunt and was devastated that he posted a goodbye post on his facebook status and jumped off a bridge into the river where he was discovered dead the following day.”The internet shows tons of graphics of people doing things they wouldn’t do in person” states John Suler. Things that are on the net can ruin a person reputation. How far do we have to go to ask for a little bit of privacy that it’s even leaked onto the internet?
I believe as much as we wanted to have our own privacy we can’t have due to the people and their lack of respect. Now that the internet is more advance with technology anything can happened to anyone and anything. For instants webcams people can be turn them on and leave them on without noticing or they can use them to make threats or even farewell videos who ever decides to commit suicide or even in this case invasion of privacy.
Its funny how you get to know one person and as you try to trust them with anything or ask for a little favor they go behind you back and that’s when you feel like you been betrayed and might lead you to do something you wouldn’t think people would think? Tyler Clementi felted this. As much as this is a sad tragedy, we realize that privacy is never granted when it is asked for. It is either betrayed or exposed, little do we know maybe to the world.
As much as useful or fun the net might be it’s a cruel and dangerous world because of the people that don’t have consideration. We hackers, and c yberbullies that really have no respect for privacy or even respect for themselves for that matter that they go out of their own misery and destroy other people’s lives without noticing or just doing it as a prank and probably boredom.
Invasion of privacy is a huge issue now in days that we have to be careful with the people we talk to or where we are located. As for Tyler Clementi , he took his own life due to lack of privacy and as much as we think we know people and the internet plus technology, We really have no clue. It makes you think how much trust you have in a person don’t you?
