The person I am online is a lot of different Indian people. On the internet it shows Indian families or them succeeding in something. I think that other people would think that I am older than I actually am or they might think that I am from India because of the background. They might believe I lied to them or believe something else because what they looked up about me. I consider what is going on in the photo. I know that anyone can do anything to your photo with the right technology. I make sure that it is appropriate and make sure that anyone I don't want to see anything I don't let them see. The pros of sharing online are you may get some really good or nice feedback from people. The cons from sharing online are someone taking your photo and photoshopping it and reposting it. They could also show it someone else and make that person say terrible things about you for something you didn't even do. Some people don't think before they post. Some people just post for attention. You should want to post for fun or for anything positive. If you are not paying attention to what you are posting someone can easily screenshot the photo before you delete it and do something to it or send it to everyone they know. I think they should just ask your permission because somethings are private. People in the world these days are crazy and if they found out something you weren't you could get yourself in a lot of trouble. If you have nothing to hide you shouldn't have a problem but some people just don't feel comfortable. They don't even have to be hiding something they could just not like other people in their business. Free speech is the right to express any opinions without censorship or restraint. Free speech is protected by the First Amendment but the U.S. Constitution does does protect Free speech. Another problem on the internet that you should watch out for are internet trolls. This is a Person who starts trouble to upset people. They do this by sending off topic messages in an online community. These trolls do it for their own entertainment. I think they have no life and are very petty. I believe a internet trolls goal is to shame or intimidate someone in front of a group of people online. For certain websites they just don't allow comments but for the websites that do you can try not to just feed to the trolls nonsense. Well first make sure it is an internet troll but after you do that report the troll to an op, administrator, or site owner. Then if there's an ignore button block them so you won't see their comments. If you are really good at ignoring people just ignore them and act like they are not their if their is no ignore button. You can also try to compliment the troll to throw them off their game or you can nicely just ask the troll to stop. DO NOT RESPOND TO THE TROLL YOU ARE FEEDING THEIR ENJOYMENT. Posting anonymously online can be good and bad. The pros of posting his way is if you post something about someone you won't get caught because they don't know who you are. The cons of posting this way is they could find someone to figure out who you are or do it themself if they are good with computers and expose you and make your life or your appearance really bad to people.

Tips:  Watch what you put online you don't know who is watching or looking at your post.

Be careful for Internet trolls.

Treat others the way you want to be treated.

Online, I appear to be a lesbian and it appears that I am in a relationship with someone. It also seems that I like to cook and I like to eat. I’m a fan of football, I’m a caring person and I like to joke. I love younger children, I love how they think, who they are as people, their imagination, personality and the way they grow. Another thing you can learn about me on the internet is that i’m somewhat a family person, I’m peaceful and I love my nephew dearly.

I think people would perceive me as being a cook, someone who cooks often or likes to. The thought isn’t all the way wrong, I like to cook but i’m not crazy about it. However, I do enjoy eating and I certainly am crazy about that. They could perceive me as wanting to have a child someday because I re-post a lot of newborn babies and most times my captions for those post are “one day” or similar to that. People could perceive me as being really close to my relatives, one or two people in my family I am very close to, one of those people being my father because on a daily basis I post about him and how great of a person he is.

Before I post anything on line, I greatly consider my future. I always think about how will this picture or this post effect my name or will it get me in any kind of trouble. Then I think about my family and  how they’d feel towards my post and how would people look at them for something I did. Then I consider people I interact with over the internet, who can see me, whose feelings I could hurt, and will this damage any opportunity I’ve been offered or would have been offered. Lastly I consider how would I feel if this was me. If I seen whatever i’m posting on another person’s social media, how might I have felt towards it.

My pros and cons of sharing online are:

Pros: I can express myself the way I want to express myself, I can post as many pictures as I want and remove them. I can let out my thoughts, I can agree and disagree on what people feel and are saying. I’m able to use my own mind, I don’t have to allow anyone access to my page and I can friend and unfriend anyone, then block them as well.

Cons: You can remove the picture from your view and maybe a few others but once it’s on the internet. You’re always going to see something you don’t like, you can count on the internet to throw something negative into your view. Someone is always going to be on the other end “hating on you”. There’s always someone out there ready to ruin your day or sprinkle their miserableness onto your post or turn something you said into something completely opposite. You have to choose your words very wisely and think about what you’re saying. I also feel that people overtime have started to compete with each other over the internet mentally, thoughts like “how can I look better than her, how could  get a boy like him to notice me or a girl like her, how can I be prettier, how can I wear the clothes she’s wearing, where could I find his shoes, I wish I had his or her piercing” and this list goes on. People are falling out of touch with who they are mentally, alone in a room with yourself. I know this because I am victim to it and/or I too have committed this crime and I think that it’s very unhealthy.

Lack of control, Permanence and Immediacy have an impact on our lives because when you have lack of control it means you don’t know how to discipline yourself or tell yourself no. That could result into bad things over and over again, you basically never learn your lesson. Another way of explaining Lack of control is not being in control of your post, for example the lady posted a picture of her daughter and the picture became out of her control, people started to make fun of her sick child. With permanence I think it’s a little dangerous that you’re on the internet forever once you put yourself up there because the days get crazier and crazier by the minute. Now and days with the new screenshot devices anyone can have your picture in their phone, people are sick and people are insane. Somewhere right now, any of us could be hanging up on someone’s wall, they could have save the picture got us blown up, made us into a poster more than once with more than one picture for multiple reasons, might be plotting to snatch us, to meet us, to be apart of our lives, could be a mental serial killer, honestly the possibilities are endless. As far as immediacy goes, I think people like not having to wait forever for a picture or post to load, to be posted or for them to be able to click on a video and watch it. Immediacy with me, i’m pretty cautious about it because if I was to do something illegal, just as immediate it is for me to pull up something, it’ll be immediate for a police officer to pull up my profile and find my full information and more.

My thoughts on social media background checks by potential employers varies on the company, If it’s someone like the government I absolutely think you should look into their life and check their social media to know how trustworthy they are, get a glimpse on who they are as people. Find out what they have going for them and get an insight on how they feel about certain things. I think it’s very important to do that kind of snooping around on a potential state worker. A place like McDonald's I however don’t agree is necessary to have to background check them. I think it’s their personal life. All their doing is taking orders and making a quick burger but it also depends on the person, in this economy you never know who is who and that makes it really hard to trust people.

Free speech is having permission to say anything you want whether it’s how you're feeling, your opinion or your unneeded comments. Free speech is having the privilege to share your ideas, thoughts and epiphanies with others, good or bad with no consequence. Some things that are protected is your personal information, information like your birthday, your age, your house address, your private messages, not a lot of things are really protected securely, it really depends on the website. One piece of information that is very protected is your social security number. Your social security number is very protected because someone could steal your identity and basically own your life, they can live under your name, say your children are theirs, your car is theirs, and the list goes on. A few things that aren’t protected are things like your pictures, your name, your phone number but again it depends on the website.

An internet troll is someone that spreads their negative energy over the internet, they’re internet users who comment disrespectful comments, tell you what you should and shouldn’t be doing, they’re people who start arguments with you, they are upsetting people. Their post are rude, foul and hurtful.

The goal of an internet troll is to definitely hurt your feelings and to make you feel bad, upset you. Their job is to make you feel wrong about what you think and who you are as a person.

A way we can stop trolling is by unfriending the person, blocking them or reporting them to the website owners and reviewers that check stuff like inappropriate post or spammers and it’s a possibility that they could delete their account.

The pros and cons of posting anonymously are:

Pros: Nobody knows who you are evidently because you're anonymous. You don’t have to worry about anyone pointing fingers at you because they have no idea who you are.

Cons: Some cons could be if you said something really good on a really important website, somebody important might be looking for you and then can’t find you but, I think that if it’s really important an authority or someone like that can track you and find out who you are. Another con would be what you don’t know who anyone else is. Just as you’re anonymous everyone else would be too so you don’t know who's reading what you're posting, who’s viewing you etc.