Those 2 pics above are my two fave movies Hard Candy and Closer and they both are films based around online deception in chatrooms though chatrooms are a thing of the past on the web, they seem to be quite popular on mobile GPRS. I'm thinking about security of online identity now....I am aware around the issues of our identity being accessible to just about anyone especially with the new rise of technology, we now have id cards for luterally everything and even things that don’t seem like id cards can often be used to keep records of us, such as conversations recorded on home and mobile phone lines, Tesco club card and Oyster which is used to track our shopping habits and where we travel to. This info is accessible to anyone working for these companies and marketing research company or crime investigation unit who requests such info. The British nation is obsessed with new technology so I wonder how many other ways our life is being tracked and watched involunteerily. So imagining the web (a large sea of information) where we choose to disclose personal info about ourselves including credit card details and phone numbers and addresses, when matched with names, a person's info can be found with a click. Our whole lives are surveillanced like Big Brother but we are editing it instead of the shows producers...I found the snooping law quite interesting but would it protect our privacy? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1761974.stm or what would it take to actively run something like this RIP act?http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/oct/24/qanda I don't know to be honest, but I know I don't feel safe with my address and eveything being on the net for just about anyone to access in particular my photographs, photos can be used for anything and I really don't feel comfortable leavin my photos online unlocked, so any photos I have on myspace or facebook is locked and inaccessible to random strangers. I read through all these sites and it made me extra cautious, I especially am careful with bank details, I always make sure there is a secure lock on the site before doing online shopping, Identity Theft: http://www.cariboo.bc.ca/cpj/identitytheft.html
Online Privacy: http://www.cdt.org/privacy/guide/basic/topten.html
Identity deception: http://smg.media.mit.edu/people/Judith/Identity/IdentityDeception.html
Online deception http://www.nps.navy.mil/Content/CS/ncrowe/virtcomm160.htm
Funnily I have come across many songs to do with online deception: The first song I ever heard was a song about Myspace Friends by Gym Class Heroes, about how we accept random friend reuests on myspace depending on how they look, not caring whether they are real or not, funnily everyone always wonders whether Tom (the Myspace creator) would be left as their only friend sometimes, Theres a song by Brad Paisley called Online and Reggie and D-fam have also made songs about myspace profiles too, one song out right now is Mariah Carey - Touch My Body http://youtube.com/watch?v=CswQOP9RnJ8 which discusses how anything anywhere can be filmed and posted on youtube and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FahBBnfHAQ is a FUNNNYY parody of Enrique's Hero song, its called Facebook Skit and is about how people can stalk eachother on facebook especially someone like a crazy ex partner, funny thing is, celebrities have always been private and only in the last couple of years, there has been a craze over celebrities having myspace and facebook profiles for fans and media to access their personal lives, the photos part in particular, well actually no wonder they're making songs about it!!! Though I doubt people like Micheal Jackson have time to check their myspace if thats theirs of course, its probably run by their PA people pretending to be them half the time lol and just because it says its official, doesn't mean its true, anyone can say that, I usually rely on photographs to see if its a real profile, real profiles have lots of everyday photographs and sometimes celebs take a photo or do a vid of themselves holding a paper saying its their site.
About 80% of the young population in Britain have some sort of online profile, majority are on facebook or myspace though there are many other social network sites, we all most definately have MSN, the instant messenger which replaced emailing for most of us. I remember back in the days it was Hi5 and then I made a myspace only to keep up with music and then the next 7 months down the line I know, I'm enjoying getting in touch with old school freinds on facebook! I also like how I can talk to anyone on there and not have to actually have met them to talk, it can lead to being friends as you can share same interests, but the thing is you choose to share your info with someone you haven't met, it can be a bit dangerous but usually its fine, if you stay safe. I think the main reason why I enjoy facebook so much is I have actual friends on there rather the random strangers who added me, on myspace I have like 1178 friends, and only 2% regularly message me, on facebook I have like 218 friends at mo and I'm guaranteed to get lots of messages every hour of the day (which I reply to when I feel like), I'm going to delete the pointless myspace friends who added me because I look good soon because I watched this and it scared me
http://www.bbc.co.uk/consumer/tv_and_radio/watchdog/reports/internet/internet_20071024.shtml lol I also have found that my lifes more organised, I love creating events and inviting all my friends without having use up my credit to phone or text them, its worked wonders!!! and if I want to know what they are upto now, their everchanging statuses, wall posts and photos give the game away. My life online is an organised representation of my real life an my real life is organised (if Lilly Allen can create a whole TV show trough myspace friends she's never met then anythinsg possible really!) a little bit more through online messaging, the online world isn't tangible but I tend to trust those I believe to be my friends though it could be a hacker, axe murderer or stalker , I believe online profiles more when photos are there with their info, but I wouldn't talk to someone who I didn't feel comfortable with or someone who I felt was lying about who they are. I do know facebook also tracks my writing and it isn't private, its says so in their terms and conditions policy, I don't midn though because they are only using it to advertise specific brands to my interests which I find appealing. Professor Martin Weller talks about disaggregated communication but I really don't mind people reading myindo all over the world in fact I love how I can reach out to so many people so far away!!! :)
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