According to the article, “Guess Who’s Looking at Your
Facebook Page?” by Alessandra Potenza, the internet really isn’t as harmless as
you might have believed it to be. The author talks about how when some people
post things it could potentially be seen by other people and could get you in
some deep trouble. The author wants us to be aware of what we post and to think
ahead before we post something that we might later regret. The author
interviewed people such as Emma Sullivan and Jeff Olson to review their stories
on times that they regretted to post something on the internet.
In this
article, Alessandra Potenza wants us to know that we should be really careful
when we decide to post things online. She gives portrays this by giving
examples of when something bad happened to other people after they posted
things. For instance, the article interviewed a 20-year old student, Emma
Sullivan, when she states, “Your tweets and your Facebook posts and whatever
other social media you have is really out there, it’s out there permanently, and
it’s out there for everyone to see.” She said this right after she wrote a
tweet regarding Governor Sam Brownback almost got her in deep trouble because
her principal deemed it offensive. I think that the reason the author wanted us
to know this was because something like this could happen to us if we are not
careful enough and it might even hurt us in the future. I thought that reading
what happen to this student was really scary and the fact that something that
seemed so harmless might happen to me makes me want to second guess myself next
time I decide to put something on the internet. Another example is when the
author interviews a school and she writes, “An applicant was denied admission because
of offensive comments he had posted on Facebook about one of his teachers.”
This shows how your future can also be affected because of things you might do
online. The author used all of these things in her article because she wanted
us to see what might happen to our daily lives and even our future.
The
author wrote his article in order to have the chance for us to see the types of
outcomes that might occur if we are not careful with what we put on the
internet. I believed that this author did have a bias, I thought that she was
for being careful. The author focused on only why things like this happen and
therefore had a positive bias which I heavily agreed with. She only included
interviews that started with what went wrong to how they changed themselves
because of what had happened to them.
After
reading this article, I have come to understand that I should always be careful
of what I write on the internet. This article has also really deepened my
thinking about my future and really made me revise on what I do from now on. I
wouldn’t want to not get into a good college for instance all because of one
bad post or one bad comment. From now on, this article has made me change
myself to become a both better and cautious person at the same time.
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