This week we had a very good presentation about how the safety of the internet and social media platforms affects a lot of kids an their parents, as well as when you get older and have to make some of the decisions that your mom and dad used to have to make for you. Back when we were kids, it sounded like a lot of people had the same experience with these kinds of things. A lot of parents want to make sure and control whatnot are doing online, and honestly who can blame them for doing that. The internet, especially social media, is a huge breeding ground for toxic things that parents might not want their teens to be seeing just yet.

Another big topic was how now that we were adults, how do we keep our social network. Personally I don’t really care who is friends with me, as long that I know they re a real person and that they are around my age. A lot of people said that they will only let their friends become friend with them on the social media, and I totally get that too because sometimes you just don’t want some random people getting in your business now a days. Personally I refrain from adding older family members on instagram and places like that, because It just feels weird to me, but the family members around my age that I like, I will definitely add them on those platforms and interact with them through there.

One of the big things we watched this week was a John Oliver video about the crazy world of newspaper and online journalism. He was talking about how it isn’t how it used to be with these news papers now a days, because they are frankly going out of style. People want to get their information from the convenience of online and not have to go physically buy a newspaper, or go out and get it from their mail box. A big problem with these companies now is that all they want to do is make money and get clicks, also known as click baiting sometimes. This is a popular thing all over the internet just to gain some traction, and therefore gain more revenue. I couldn’t believe the owner of that one newspaper who said fuck you to one of his employees because she questioned him on why they wouldn’t be doing actually news research and news work for the people reading their stuff. I think that unacceptable and if was that employee I would have packed up my bags and left for another company because I wouldn’t be able to work for an asshole like that ho thinks he’s the far above all of us.

Personally I don’t like where everything as gone with all of these news papers and news outlets and I think that fake movie shows it all. These companies are just becoming social media outlets at this point. I do get the desire to make the money, but cmon that unacceptable. What do you think about the news papers doing this?

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