So this won't let me post here but if you get time YouTube Mark Cuban and the biggest mistake you are making on social media. He basically says that companies and the government will make a profile of you based on your posts and reposts and retweets etc etc and one day the government along with facial recognition software will be able to identify you and based on all the information they have collected on you will be able to say you are like this person who we arrested for this crime and on and on. I can't really do it justice but it's really horrifying. Anyone think this is likely to happen one day or is this is a tinfoil hat thing?
Remember when you first started smoking weed? If you were like a lot of people I knew you thought your phone was tapped and everything you said was recorded. I used to laugh and tell them that if everybody who thought everything they said on the phone really was recorded the government would have to hire every unemployed person in the USA just to listen to the recordings. Now they don't need people. Software running sophisticated algorythms can analyze every piece of data at trillions of bits per second and instantly alert the system if anything draws suspicion. Its already happened. A friend of mine who is not at all computer savvy but is paranoid anyway recently bought his first computer at the age of 58. While he was playing around with it some facial recognition software program popped up. He said he almost went out and threw his laptop in the apartment swimming pool. I told him to just put a piece of tape over the webcam. Or he could bring it to me and I would disable or remove the facial recognition software. That was a month ago and he hasn't brought it to me yet. I don't know if he has turned it back on again though.
I believe digital footprints are definitely something the younger generation needs to be careful about when typing anything on the net, texting, pictures, etc. I warn and warn my daughters to be mindful of that but I know they don't realize just how serious I am.
its way too late for them. better get to work on your grandkids. but the norm will only be worse then.
This has been a fact for a decade now. Forget the government intelligence agencies, they only look at the black stuff. The data that a determined private investigator can get on you is astonishing. What a well-funded but corrupt police department could do with this is scary. You have to be very vigilant in keeping your personal data offline, and that is very difficult.
We try to educate our students about their presence on social media. It feels like a losing proposition. We had a police officer (he's a resource officer at the high school where my daughter will be in the fall) talk to our students last year about this, and the very next week, three 8th grade girls posted pictures of their naked asses on Twitter, removed them, but didn't "realize" the 8th grade boys that saw it took screenshots before they were deleted.
8th grade is the perfect storm of technology, hormones and delays in frontal lobe development. Astonishing still, and I have mucked about in that swamp for 12 years!
I've mucked about in the 8th grade swamp for the past 18 years. My first five years were at a high school in Louisiana--they weren't much better than 8th graders. My older daughter just finished 8th grade, and I have enjoyed her and her friends at this age. But I suppose I'm a glutton for punishment, as I generally like 8th graders the best. So much so that when given an option on the last day of school to teach 7th or 8th next year...I chose all 8th grade.
8th grade is the best, and in fact the only. I tell people it is like the surf at the coast, the marsh, the fringe beside the woods. It is the transition zone, where most of the action occurs. That does not mean that I don't get really PO'd a the little SOB's from time to time, actually most of the time, but it always an adventure. Always. Once I got the calling, I "assumed" I would end up teaching AP Physics or Calc of Differential Equations, but that is just academics, 8th grade is all in teaching. And, by the time the children are taking those real high level courses, (or more importantly NOT taking those courses) they have made huge life decisions, that in many ways are very difficult to reverse. I want to make a difference, and IMHO, there is no better place than 8th grade pre algebra!
