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The Internet is great. You can chat with friends on MSN, see films on YouTube, download music, visit friends’ websites, and share your photos. The Internet gives you unlimited possibilities to be seen and heard. It was different when your parents were young. Basically, they almost had to be the world’s best football player or win the Nobel Peace Prize to be noticed by the outside world. |
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Now the photos you post on Flickr, or the video you put up on YouTube, can be seen by millions of people – by your grandmother in the next town, a plumber in Brazil, or even by your future spouse.
The whole world
Perhaps you’ve got a profile on MySpace, Facebook, Piczo, or another online community, or a blog where you’ve posted photos
and some information about yourself? Have you ever thought through whether you want your neighbours or parents to see what
you’ve put on the Internet? Because there’s every chance that they will…
In some online communities, you can decide who sees what on your profile. But tagging, cutting, and pasting are easy on the Internet. It’s very easy for something that was meant only for your friends to end up being seen by others. And once posted, it can be very difficult to remove.
Your own archiveAre you member of a sports team? In which case, it could be that they put photos of you up on their website. Maybe, you’ve done something so interesting that a newspaper has interviewed you and the
article has been published on the Internet? If you’re in a marching band, there could be some great pictures of you from one of your performances.
What’s posted about you on the Internet can be downloaded by others and stored in various places. If someone searches for your name through search engines such as Kvasir or Google, they could get lots of hits and build up a picture of what you’re like as a person. As such, everyone has his or her own archive on the Internet.
You decide what your archive on the Internet looks like.
