Survival at its finest.

Could you survive without technology? Could you write a handwritten letter to someone and wait for a response? When i saw a the question of “How changes in technology impact on the way humans communicate, and the ethical issues that surround these changes?” I had all these thoughts come to mind that i could talk about.

So lets start. The past decade alone shows many changes with technology. Technology went from simple texting, calling, and sending an email to people that you knew, to facetiming, snapchatting, tweeting, updating a status, and adding people from all over the world. As this technology changed, humans changed.

As more technology comes around, people are less social. I mean think about it. Is being social really about having your head in your phone while in a room full of people? No not really. So what about the ethics behind the technological advancements? I mean cool, it’s easy to interact, but is it more dangerous than efficient. A major issue that no one ever thinks of when making facebook, instagram, snapchat, tinder, and twitter is privacy

Privacy is defined as secluding information about oneself. This is a major issues, that no one really takes seriously. Privacy online is so different to offline. You can hide anything in the real world as long as you don’t post about it on technology. Sure you can set your settings so that no one can see your profile, but really all it takes is a follower, a tweet, or a simple add and all of a sudden your whole life is being showed to a complete stranger.

“People say “privacy is dead”, it’s usually for one of two reasons. Either they truly believe that privacy is irrelevant or unachievable in today’s hyper-connected world or, more often, that not enough is being done” (Lawrence, 2015)

Sure you might not think that privacy is dead and that it is still achievable and i agree with you there, but really we’re getting to the stage that it soon will die out.

So really, if privacy is affecting everyone so much why are we still using social media?

Lawrence, J. (2015). The internet hasn’t killed privacy — but it has changed it forever | Electronic Frontiers Australia. Efa.org.au. Retrieved 20 September 2016, from https://www.efa.org.au/2015/09/24/the-internet-hasnt-killed-privacy/