The Internet: The Good, Bad, and Ugly

The GOOD:
http://www.quicksprout.com/2013/01/02/how-to-become-internet-wealthy-not-internet-rich/
This guy really knows what he is talking about. These are some real life tips I would give to someone who is tech-savvy and trying to make a living off of the internet. The tips are simple no brainers, but people who work well with the internet may look past these because they want to get rich this second. It doesn't work like that, things take time and this is what is explained on this website.


The BAD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7z51UH1keM
Posts like this that are seen all over the place make the internet look bad. This is most likely a scam that someone has set up that just needs people's information to retrieve money from their bank account, or something of the sort. The internet is becoming a hub for scam artists to attract people so they can get money out of it in some way, shape or form.


The UGLY:
http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/376176/251/Boston-bombing-sparks-Internet-scams
This is just absolutely horrible. We all know what happened in the Boston Bombing, and now people are trying to make money off of it? I mean how low can we get. This is a perfect example of how the ugly can be portrayed on the internet, it is disgusting and makes me sick.

Assignment 3B

Location Tracking: There are many risks with putting a GPS tracker in a kid. If the wrong person got a hold of how to track your kid, say a pedophile, he could track him down and kidnap him/her then just take the chip out and then the kid is gone forever. In my opinion the benefits do not outweigh the risks, if I want to find my kid I wouldn't lose him/her in the first place. Parents do have the right to put chips in their children, but I don't know how many actually would. Once a child can make decisions on their own I don't think it is right to put a chip in them, so for teenagers thats an extreme invasion of privacy. I would not support that bill, because it is just to invasive. I may consider putting GPS on a grandparent of mine with alzheimer's but most likely wouldn't do that, only because if they are that sick they wouldn't be walking around.
Cell Phone And Privacy: If you really cannot afford a normal phone bill, then it would be legitimate to buy a prepaid cell phone. I don't think that prepaid cell phones should be banned or controlled by the law. There is already way to much power in the law, they don't need anymore. If I want to have a conversation with someone over the phone without my phone being tapped into, I should be allowed to do that.

CS408-01

Living in a Networked World is a very interesting class!