I read a news article about a girl who was a victim of cyber bullying. The girl, Megan Meier, had met a boy online who seemed nice and said the two had a lot in common. Megan and the supposed boy, Josh Evens, had talked for a while and Josh had seemed nice, until he started making degrading remarks to Megan and posted things like: "Megan Meiers is ugly and fat!" Megan, who had had problems with depression before, was terribly hurt by these comments and unded up killing herself. Her mother found her young daughter's body in her closet. The family then found out that the supposed Josh Evens was actually a neighborhood friend and parent that created the fake profile to try and find what megan was saying about her daughter.
When I read this article I was shocked. It it sad that a grown woman, especially being a friend of the family, would be so imature as to bully a young girl. Though the woman was at fault, I feel that the situatuion could have been avoided. Megan should not have even started talking to the boy because she had no idea who he was. He may have seemed nice at first, which is probably why Megan continued to talk to him, but you never really know. You have to be careful with what you do or post on the internet and that includes who you talk to. Only talk to people that you really know.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3882520&page=1
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Google is coming out with a new privacy policy. The three main things that the new policy has different from the old one is that Google is making their privacy policies easier to read, their aggregating data across products for Google and user experience, and their arguing that it's easier to just take your data and go somewhere else.
In the article I read, the guy was saying that, while some of the things in the new privacy policy were helpful, it was scary how much Google would be watching you and how much they would know about you. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/googles-new-privacy-policy-the-good-bad-scary/67893.
In my opinion, I have no problem with Google tracking my searches because I don't search anything I need to worry about others reading, but I do not agree with the fact that they will be looking at my emails. I'm not worried about what they will find there, I just feel that your email is a little bit more personal. I don't understand how looking through my emails is going to make their site any better unless they are working on being up to date with my friend in South Carolina or what my swim team is doing for practice tomorrow. Even though I feel this way, I'm still going to keep my gmail account as will many other people; maybe I'm lazy, but i like Google and feel that one odd change that they are making to there products is not enough for me to switch to Bing and a new emailing site.
In the article I read, the guy was saying that, while some of the things in the new privacy policy were helpful, it was scary how much Google would be watching you and how much they would know about you. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/googles-new-privacy-policy-the-good-bad-scary/67893.
In my opinion, I have no problem with Google tracking my searches because I don't search anything I need to worry about others reading, but I do not agree with the fact that they will be looking at my emails. I'm not worried about what they will find there, I just feel that your email is a little bit more personal. I don't understand how looking through my emails is going to make their site any better unless they are working on being up to date with my friend in South Carolina or what my swim team is doing for practice tomorrow. Even though I feel this way, I'm still going to keep my gmail account as will many other people; maybe I'm lazy, but i like Google and feel that one odd change that they are making to there products is not enough for me to switch to Bing and a new emailing site.
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