BY: Shea Martin
Technology is a wonderful thing; it allows us to do everything we are used to doing but much more efficiently. The most significant thing that technological advancements have provided us with is privacy. In today’s society everyone can live in their own “gated community”. This can be a good thing but can also be looked at as a negative thing.
Privacy through technology is a good thing in the aspect that sometimes you just need to get away from certain people. There are many things that will help you to keep your distance. On a lot of smart phones there are apps that will allow you to block a person’s phone calls and/or text messages. During class on Monday Professor Sistrunk showed us a great phone voicemail system. This service will allow you to save all voicemails and listen to any one single message at anytime. The service also allowed you to block calls through an assortment of ways.
The service also will show you all of the caller’s information. This is one of the best examples of the “electronic fence” because this service truly keeps people you want out, out.
The reason I believe that this “electronic fence” can be viewed as a negative thing is because you might never really know who you are talking to. You may never really know how anyone feels about you. Just like a fence in real life the “electronic fence” allows people to hide behind something while they attempt to tell you what they need to.
This electric fence can be used to benefit many people. With technology advancing and privacy decreasing this fence is a way to combat the fact that information is so accessible. Though there are some cons with the electric fence I believe it will do more good than bad
ReplyDeleteThe electronic fence will be beneficial to me. Now I have a way to filter my calls rather I want it to be known or not. For instance, at times I am able to screen calls by not answering, but it is still an inconvenience because I have to look at my phone. I think the electronic fence will be convenient for me as long as I do not forget when it is on.
ReplyDeleteThe electric fence is a great invention and helps people choose a alternate way of handling calls and the certain people that call you. The electric fence is definitely something that I will start using to handle unwanted calls and random telemarketers calling my number.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the "electric fence," for example YouMail [the name of the previously mentioned online voicemail system by Professor Sistrunk], is a good vehicle to screen, block, track, and keep/store phone call data for up to years at a time. In an aggressively progressing technological age, where everything is "in the cloud," I feel it is very important to have these "fences" to keep certain important information private and secure for personal, social, and financial reasons.
ReplyDeleteI do believe the electronic fence is a great alternative and could be a positive asset to many people but I don't feel like it is a necessity. The simplest way to avoid being contacted is to simply limit distributing your number to unwanted company. It is not common for telemarketers to get access to cell phones and home phones are becoming obsolete. We may get to a point were using the "electronic fence" and the voice mail system we were shown will become a necessity but right now I feel like its just something new.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the Internet has many ways to protect our privacy, but the Internet has been the source of lots of identity theft. There are websites that you can visit and gets people background information, address, phone number,etc. The fact that so much of our personal information can be found online is scary. Consider the fact that when you post a status or tweet on social networks, the location where you posted shows up. The Internet not only opens us up to lots of information we need, but it also makes our information available to many.
ReplyDeleteThe irony that arises from this structure is that the "electronic fence" bars us away from those people that we may be aware of but not want to be in contact with, but fails in separating us from those that we may not be aware of, such as corporate giants that feed our personal information for target advertising. Technological advancement has increased the feeding of this information and has made us susceptible to the lurking of corporate predators.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the "electric fence' it's great and beneficial to all. With technology evolving everyday, one persons privacy is becoming harder and harder to protect. This systems just protect a person from being so accessible to everyone. At the end of the day, i feel that this has no negative affects, and more positive ones if any.
ReplyDeleteThe electric fence seems like a great tool for filtering out the vast, unnecessary distractions that life tends to throw at us all. This creation seems particularly useful at this specific time in my life. I'm often bombarded with opportunities to run off of my initial course and typically partake in activities not conducive to my personal goals. This tool will be an effective way to combat said derailments before they are even allotted the chance to arise.
ReplyDeleteWhen Professor Sistrunk showed us YouMail in class a few weeks ago, I was rather intrigued by the capabilities the application had and hyped myself into signing up right in class. Within 24 hours, I had withdrawn from the service because it bothered me from the simplest standpoint that my cellular device's "movements" were being tracked by a third party - not to mention the extremely creepy personalized voicemail response. While I recognize those are both variable settings, I think at a certain point you have to realize which apps are good for business use and personal use. No doubt there is a huge advantage for a lawyer, doctor, or any small business owner to keep track of every minute communications detail - for a college student like me, it was just overwhelming.
ReplyDeleteI respectfully disagree toward your opinion of technological advancements providing us with privacy. I feel as though, it's the complete opposite. The internet, which the government help create, has placed us all under virtual surveillance.
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