Web Opinions and Home Internet Jobs - Internet Buyers Beware
The internet is quickly becoming a catchall problem solver in todays current global society. It used to be that if you did not know how to do something, you had to either try and figure it out, find someone else who had already figured it out, or - god forbid - get to the library and find a book that would help you figure it out. Today, if you are unable to find the answer clearly spelled out for you on someone website, people are almost at a loss for what to do. I am guilty of this myself.
Recently I moved to another state and acquired a temporary apartment while looking for a house to purchase. The only thing I required of this temp apartment was that it had internet access, so that I could keep in touch with work, family back home, and keep contact with my realtor and potential homes. I was promised that this apartment had wireless access, no problem. And it did. For about one day. After that I could hardly get a signal ever.
It was awful. How was about I supposed to keep in touch with work? The phone? How was I supposed to investigate neighborhoods that I might want to live? By actually driving my car around the neighborhood? What was this - the Dark Ages?!?!
And people are turning to the internet for far more than just information these days. Beyond home internet jobs, or shopping, or selling for that matter, people are turning to the internet for emotional therapy. Either finding websites by people full of web opinions who will tell you how to live your life, or people creating online web diaries open for all the world to see.
Where is the line between appropriate and inappropriate? It seems to be getting blurrier every day. Years ago, when I used to teach in a public high school, a co-worker of mine found out she was pregnant and promptly started a baby blog. She would reference this blog in conversations with other teachers in the hallway, and when I finally decided to check it out for myself, I realized her blog was open to the public. The public, in this case, included her fifteen and sixteen year old students.
This blog included pictures of her with her shirt pulled up to here, belly fully exposed, often revealing the bottom edge of her bra. Pictures of the inside of her home. Pictures of the outside of her home, her car, etc. Now, I understand that her family and friends were probably very interested in being informed about her pregnancy, but I wondered if she ever stopped to think about what she was risking. An angry student who failed her class now had access to her home address and a veritable blue print of her home. Or students with minor crushes who now had access to pictures of her with glimpses of her underwear.
Clearly she was just excited about sharing her daily experiences like so many others on the internet. But I think that a modicum of caution is appropriate for those of us who utilize the internet on a day-to-day basis, which is almost all of us. Home internet jobs can be scams, and the doctor at My Web Opinions might just be a kid at home in his basement, having some fun. And when you make those blogs public, remember just exactly who is in that public.
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