Week 2 EOC: Privacy

Privacy on the net....Do I feel safe? Do I feel like i'm being intruded on? In my opinion, No i do not. Here is why. By me using the internet, im agreeing to use someone elses service, im agreeing to abide by their guidelines and im agreeing to submit the information that is required. They same agreements apply to every website you look at, every social media network you join. They all have a set of rules, set of privacy parameters that they work around. Maybe surfers should pay more attention to the small print and actually read the "agreement terms of privacy." If a network updates and changes its policy terms, you will and are assured to receive some sort of notification, usually in an email."Generally, there is no safety in unlawful activity on the internet." Its up to me to read those changes and either deny or accept them.
Privacy on the net is like a double standard. If you want to continue to view/ineract with the sites you browse daily, you are going to agree regardless, otherwise your onto a new website that has the same functions, but probably wont be as popular and will have less features. Read before you agree. "Unsolicited emails are not regulated by federal law at the present."

Week 2 BOC: Instagram

Instagram sells to facebook for  $1,000,000,000...Smart play by Zuckerberg."Mark Zuckerberg just bought instagram for $1,000,000,000?.... He could've just downloaded the free app.” Did he buy the app or did he buy the users? The instagram app is only 551 days old and sells out for a billion dollars, we have companies that are half a century old and aren't even worth 1 billion dollars yet. In my opinion, Facebook just ended its competition and made them join the darkside with an offer you simply cannot refuse. "Facebook is essentially about photos, and Instagram had found and attacked Facebook’s achilles heel — mobile photo sharing.” In addition to receiving the blossoming app, it came with 30 million plus some, users. Facebook just expanded.
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg acknowledged as much when he wrote on his company’s blog, “This is an important milestone for Facebook because it’s the first time we’ve ever acquired a product and company with so many users. We don’t plan on doing many more of these, if any at all. But providing the best photo sharing experience is one reason why so many people love Facebook and we knew it would be worth bringing these two companies together.”