Thursday, December 4, 2008

Reading Two

This reading was very interesting. I learned that nothing is private when your using google or other search engines. I find it a little disturbing. I think that it's good in the fact that it can be used if there is ever a case and they can find concrete evidence to prove some body is innocent or guilty. But I also think that it's crazy that everything is available for people to see. I was also surprised that new laws about Internet privacy have not been introduced since 1986. I understand that the search engines use the information that they collect for marketing reasons but it seems like to much. It almost makes you not want to use them. I feel that they should update the privacy laws for Internet use, that's the main thing that stuck out to me in this particular reading.
The tug of war reading was also interesting. It makes you realize that everything is money oriented. It made me feel that like people are trying to get as much as possible for their services. It's great for business and it makes it a competitive market so that prices are reasonable. I think that it's good as long as prices don't go up and people don't start charging more for consumers to use the same service they are already using. Like how it explains how the phone companies were thinking of raising the price of apple music downloads 10 cents. I mean 10 cents isn't a large amount by any means but it makes you wonder well if its 10 cents today then they could just as easily raise it 20 cents tomorrow. Do overall I think that growth is good but just as long as the companies don't take advantage of the consumer.

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