Big mouth....
Freedom of speech redefined by blogs
When author Bill Schackner said in his article, "...she didn't just blurt out those words in her journalism class. She blogged them," I realized just how large the world wide web really is. We pretend like we're all safe behind our computer screens, but are we really? Why assume that what we write anywhere is really private. We already know that the FBI can unlock even the toughest of firewalls to uncover a baddie's dark secrets, so what's to stop some computer geek from hacking mine or yours? Furthermore, we sometimes forget that when we're blogging, we aren't just ranting to our friends; we are broadcasting our feelings across the world. Think about the six degrees of separation on a larger scale. If a poorly worded message came across the wrong person and was then passed on to someone worse...such as the author of a book that you were criticizing (great example...yes, I'm aware that I'm not always the most original person...), what would be the concequences?
I guess the bottom line here is that we all need to be careful about what we say...online or in person. The last thing anyone needs is to offend the wrong person...
I always get the nagging feeling that I am being watched no matter what I do online, and I feel it even more since we started blogging for class. It's like everyone is looking over your shoulder all the time.