With
just one click on the mouse:
Digital
Waste and Virus Control as it affect Social Media
Nowadays societies undergo through
different changes. Changes in the environment, In the economy and most likely
in one self. As we go through these changes we can notice that technology is
taking a big part in achieving every country’s goal which is coping up with
modernization. No country wants to be left out by the other. So every country
continues to develop such things that might help them to deal with
modernization. As we all know we are living in a generation that everything is
made possible through the help of technology. I would not be very surprised if
ever cars would be flying in the sky in the near future or if humans can walk
above the sea. That’s how technology works.
As a Senior High School student I
have learned many things already about technology. Well I can admit that
technology is a big help for everyone especially for students like me. For
without technology I can never enter the world of cyber space. Without it I can
never know what Facebook, Flickr or Apps is. In short life would be very dull.
As what I observed in the days of my existence many teenagers like me are being
attached or being addicted to the World Wide Web. Creating accounts, Sharing,
Viewing or storing some data’s carelessly without realizing the impact it would
have.
In the past few years’ people used
to save files or data in variant devices like Floppy Disk, CD’s or Flash drives
but as year’s passes by social media sites begin to rise and conquer the web
with its state of the art features like chatting, writing blogs and most likely
saving data with just one click of the mouse. As many social media sites like
Twitter, Tumblr, 9gag and etc. became viral distinct terms like Status,
Newsfeed, Tweet as well as upload and download and Privacy Settings started to
arise .
With just one tap in the keyboard
and click on the mouse everyone can instantly save their files online. The good
thing about saving files or data online is that it can be easily access and shared
anytime the uploader wants to.
As a web savvy teenager. Like any
other I am also fond of uploading and downloading files from different media
sites and mostly or should I say most of the time I encounter words such as
Privacy Settings. Privacy Settings by its definition is the term that most of
the sites used to secure the users profile and private information. But most
likely everyone ignores it and check the box automatically without reading and
being aware of its content. They didn’t notice that once they checked those
boxes and agreed to the terms that the site was saying their files will be
automatically shared to the site and the site will not be accountable for some data
loss. And once the site is hacked, the data would be made available to the
hacker. It was like signing a contract without knowing its content might cause
your death.
As what I am saying saving files
online is just too risky. Another negative effect of saving data online is what
they so called Digital Waste. A person is fond of updating their status on some
sites. The problem is spontaneous status update remain forever on your profile
and, in the end, you will even forget about it. And it leads to some of us in a
question. “Do I really want this status update to be on my profile?” Most
likely the answer is no. Those status that have been posted and been forgotten
is what you so called Digital Wastes. For further understanding it is a digital
dumping ground that lies inside most computers, a wasteland where old, rarely
used and unneeded files pile up. Such data can deplete storage space, bog down
the system’s efficiency and saps its energy. Digital Waste is becoming a major
problem for Social Media users.
But for every problem comes its
solution. A possible solution to that problem is a tool that erases data when
it reaches its expiry date. Many people could link erasing data with Viruses.
But the appellation “Virus” has always had a negative connotation because the
harm that they do to your data. I actually after hearing the solution for this
problem became very uncertain of it for I have already encounter harmful
computer virus that cause my files to corrupt and my computer to shut down.
That experience made me have a grudge over viruses only to find out that virus
is actually just a computer program. It is usually associated with deleting
files and that is a human controlled digital organism.
After I watched the Video of Tom
Tack about Digital Waste and Virus Control which is more likely promoting a new
virus that is designed for positive purposes like saving data which you alone
can control and can help reduce or more likely put an end to digital wastes
sounds so enticing. Who would not want to have a Virus with positive purposes? Surely
every web savvy would want that. As I continue to watch the video well I was
kind of surprised because the virus was so unique. To use it you need to point
it to your wrist and it will directly work on your computer. I found it so cool
but behind of my amusement I realize what effects might do it to the data or to
our body itself. What would happen if that virus design suddenly broke out and
knowing that virus is automatically human controlled.
The purpose of this Virus design is
truly on the positive side. Truly it can help preventing Digital Waste and
saving data but what matters is that we should not be mesmerized by its
purposes. I know that its purpose is just to help but beside that we must know
what the other effects of this new Virus design might give us.
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