Cyberdwende's Couple Photo Competition Finalists

CLICK HERE TO VOTE.

Voting ends on April 14, 12 noon.

Oooops! Careful.

In the advent of Facebook and other Social Networking Sites, much personal information are being shared online. Young and adult, the rich and the poor,almost every people with an access to the Internet has his/her own website and/or SNS accounts.

Not everyone are aware of the risks and consequences of this profile sharing as not only personal information are being shared but also preferences which is then being used by companies for advertising.

The ease of access to the web for Info-sharing and data gathering is so intense that it's consequences are sometimes overlooked.

This video mash-up, basically, calls the attention of Internet users to be on guard of their information. The video also shows some of the consequences of sharing data and information.

The Internet is not an only-all-good-things-for-you entity. The Internet also poses some horrors detrimental to the user's privacy and personality.

As we control the information we share online for the sake of our safety and the protection of our rights, how much of ourselves are we showing online? Is it still us or our true selves are well-hidden or, maybe, disguised? Where are we in this issue of privacy and internet personality?

I believe that Internet censorship and information ownership on the web will remain vague and gravely blurry for many years to come. We can not entirely own our information and lock it safely once posted online. In the Internet, there's no such thing as absolute ownership of information. Everything is being shared, intentionally or not. As the supposedly "owner", and as ahuman being with highly capacitated mind and wisdom, it is upon us to control what we have and to control what we're getting.

The internet is a tool for the "advancement" of human living. We must not allow the Internet to govern the way we live, virtually or in reality.


Sources:

Photos:

"Privacy" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeB1HHUCl8c&feature= related

Videos:

"Privacy Online" by Sarah Mohammed; AP Productions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mwx_zdcTCo&feature= related
"Privacy and Social Networks" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7gWEgHeXcA&feature= related
"Online Privacy: Is My Information Safe?"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja_SrXtIq3Q&feature=related
"Online Privacy Secrets Exposed:What Google Isn't Telling Us" by Dino Vidovic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Sx4XfNmOM-