Abstract
Online social networking offers a new, easy and inexpensive way to maintain already existing
relationships and present oneself to others. However, the increasing number of actions in online
services also gives a rise to privacy concerns and risks. In an attempt to understand the factors,
especially privacy awareness, that influence users to disclose or protect information in online
environment, we view privacy behavior from the perspectives of privacy protection and information
disclosing. In our empirical study, we present results from a survey of 210 users of Facebook. Our
results indicate, that most of our respondents, who seem to be active users of Facebook, disclose a
considerable amount of private information. Contrary to their own belief, they are not too well
aware of the visibility of their information to people they do not necessarily know. Furthermore,
Facebook's privacy policy and the terms of use were largely not known or understood by our
respondents.
In our rapidly changing society, an urgent need exists for schools to address and infuse global awareness into curriculum instruction. Students are increasingly confronted with many issues that require a global education focus. According to Kirkwood (2001), these students will face a new world order thereby creating a need to acquire a global education.
Some countries have a lot more internet filtering than we do. The United States lets people post what they want and say what they want online. Even if later on in life it might come back to them badly, it's still allowed. Other countries are a lot more strict. In some countries, if you type and publish a blog online that might be offensive, you'll get arrested. Second there are some places like Burma that haven't had internet since 2007. These are examples of how different other countries are from us and how global awareness varies in many places.
This is about cultural awarness for businesses, but it does have some important points. It describes how the "products" on the web should be "cross cultural". This also applies to how an individual should present themselves online.
This website is about a Global Awareness Society. They have information that they've collected for other people. Also this website is from 2012 so it is has most current information.
I always tell my students when they travel with me never to joke in airports about anything. I have to admit that the new NSA center with the best decryption capabilities in the world and a seemingly blank check will have me add this article to our reading list as we talk about privacy. We thought the Internet was about freedom but have put so much of our private lives out there we may have just been giving it away. Don't freak out, just be aware. This particular issue is a black box so the article may be filled with conjecture. I thought it was worth the read,
not many people would realize that it is important that social awareness needs to be tought early to children so they dont make bad decisions in their teenage years