Privacy and the Internet is a topic of continuous debate. Youth and the Internet puts alarm into some of the older generations fearing for the lack of privacy in our lives. Internet privacy refers how much information you choose to release about yourself on the Web and how much can people access.
The youth of today are living their social lives through a lot of online communities. Many people post photos from digital cameras to their personal sites. Originally most photographs used in this manner would have once needed permission from all the people featured in the picture before posting it.
A lot of media outlets now use these social networking sites as a source of information about people who are somewhat unsuspecting. I think the problem with release personal information on the Internet is that many people are unaware of the real dangers until they are in the situation of identity theft and more.
A recent article from The Advertiser, written by and mother, was stressing to parents of these dangers. Her daughter (Ashleigh Hall) was lured through Facebook by a man posing as a 16-year-old boy and was murdered. The man was a registers sex offender. There are definitely extreme cases, but we should all be aware of the dangers of outing our private information and pictures where anyone in the world can see them.
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