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Snapchat is rapidly getting popular since last year in my country too.

Major app that people in my country use is called “LINE”.

This is a typical chat app and allowed us to make a phone call for free.

While, snapchat is very popular to those who want to share pictures for a quit short term. So what is appealing to so many people especially young women is that a history of users’ conversation and pictures doesn’t remain unlike other SNS apps. This characteristic of snapchat expresses a real conversation when we have a chat with friends because we never take notes about what we talked about with whom precisely during conversations with friends. Also, snapchat let you know who saved (screenshot) your pictures that you sent. I think this makes users and their friends connected more strongly than other chat apps. I guess that those distinctiveness is the reason why snapchat is popular now.

Who protects privacy?

As we discussed in class, how a person behave in social networks and how the person actually is in real world isn’t the same in most of cases. This is because the date about a particular person collected by cybervetting is not reliable. So cybervetting of job application is not good for not only employees but also employers because employers can’t always expect the exactly the same person as the person in social networks even if they want to hire the person based on what he/she posted on social networks.

As for schools monitoring their students on social network,

I think a school should just leave students and don’t have to surveillant students unless a student does something illegal. Also, a school shouldn’t try to see students profiles or postings on social network service until some problems actually happened since as Boyd states, teens likely seek the places where they can compensate for lack of freedom in real world. If schools surveillent students and take their places to be free from restrictions in real world, they would feel oppressed.

So basically I oppose cybervetting of job application or surveillance over students. However, I disagree with Andrews because lately most of social networks provide us ways that enable us to block someone or set display restriction on social network. Thus, making a law, Social Networks Constitution, that bans any institutions from taking advantage of a person’s information posted on a social network is not reasonable because we have a mean to protect ourselves even though what we can do to limit exposure of our posting or activity on a social network. We should be responsible for our own private information as long as we are given some methods to do so. I think it’s not the government’s job.

Can Google be evil?

Even if Google suddenly disappears, we are able to substitute other programs for everything Google provides. Although the online tools we daily use can be replaced by other companies’ products, the thing is that we don’t encounter a situation we have to do it and we don’t come to think to do it.

Relying on Google apparently endangers our privacy. What guarantees that Google won’t take advantage of the information Google has stored through all their products. We can’t even fully trust our own countries’ governments, and then how come we can trust a private company? Also, centralizing information is quite dangerous of course because a huge number of information stored in Google don’t work properly and all Google users fall into disorder if Google is down.

There is an animated movie, Summer Wars. The movie describes a story that an all-powerful online system, which everyone over the world uses is hacked by AI. I’m wondering if our future may dominated by Google is going to be like the world in this movie. 

Blogging about blogging

When I was a high school student, blogging was a trend among teenagers in my country. At the time, I was blogging about my school life and I think I cared so much about what my friends who were also blogging think about my articles. 

While, Megan mentioned in her interview that she has been using her blog as if it’s her notes to write what she comes up with.

So I thought she has been able to continue her blog for many years is because her purpose of blogging does not really focus on reactions towards her blog unlike my past blog. I quit my blog long time ago because the trend was over, and most of the people around me who were also blog users stopped using blogs. So she gave me some new perspectives to see and use a blog.

It’s been more than four years since I quit my previous blog, and I usually use twitter so I’m more used to writing short sentences now rather than long sentences just like blog. Also, I've never blogged in my second language!! But I want to enjoy blogging through this course.

My first blog post

Hello!

This is my first post.

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