Alvarado Blog Post #11

Personal/Online privacy has always been an issue when it comes to the internet. I can’t really say I have a definition for it because the truth is it’s impossible to keep the information you have put up on the web private. In actuality, the only privacy you have over the internet is the information you haven’t put up on in the internet, and even then it’s still possible for that information to end up on the web anyways.  I have no problem in sharing the information that I have put on the web with other people, that’s why it’s there. For me, there isn’t anyone that I don’t want to share my information with because I have nothing to hide or have someone stalking me. I can understand how this can be a problem for people that have done something embarrassing, or even being followed by bad people, therefore they really have to be careful with the stuff they post online. But even if I don’t mind sharing stuff on the web, that doesn’t mean that I’ll do it every chance I get. For instance, I don’t accept friend requests on Facebook from people I don’t know, because you can never truly know who they are.

Nothing comes up about me when I Google my name (even with a characteristic). I used my high school as my characteristic and when I did my name came up with someone that went to that school, but apparently it was someone from the class of 2007 which isn’t me. I doubt there was another Erwin Alvarado at my high school, so this really makes me wonder about whether this is fake or not. The information on spokeo.com doesn’t surprise me at all, because all they have is my address and a few details about myself like me being Hispanic. A lot of information is wrong, therefore it wouldn’t surprise me to find out that the few things they got right were from guessing. Even the phone number was wrong, so looking at this just assures me that I haven’t given out too much information over the internet.

Alvarado Creative Proposal

My group presentation topic is communications.  Communications has already advanced so much thanks to the use of technology. Even so, in the future it’s possible for it to advance even further.  We’ll probably be talking to each other by using virtual technology that is incorporated in a watch or something of that sort. So basically, I want to show that how much communications will advance in the future. This will take some imagination and that is what I will use to create some sort of video, slideshow, etc. of how people will communicate in the future. To complete this project I don’t think I’ll need any physical supplies, but I’ll definitely need to go to the Innovation Space to use the technology at hand or use some of the suggested sites to create the project.  The first step in the plan in my plan is to visit the Innovation Space Center and see if there is anything there that would help me do my project. If not then I’ll have to find something online to do it or will have to change up my ideas a bit. After accomplishing this I can start setting other goals as in how often I’ll work on it and when I plan on finishing it.