In the novel, The Revealers, the students of Parkland Middle felt connected through SchoolStream or as the students called it KidNet where they were able to chat or instant message. Most of you do this nightly through MSN Messenger. With KidNet and MSN nobody could break into or eavesdrop on your conversation without it being known. Not anymore. Today’s technology allows you to assume the identity of another person. Do you really know whom you are talking to in the cyber world?
It is 10:00 pm on a Wednesday night; you have finished your homework and you are chatting on MSN with three other friends. After 10 minutes two more friends ask to join the chat. By 10:30 pm five more people have joined and it is fun; however, there is a joke said about one of the people, rapidly followed by an insult. At first, no one knows how to respond, then seconds later a message pops up stating, “I didn’t say that! It isn’t me saying these things. Someone is using my name. What is going on here?”
What is the issue involved in this scenario? Why is this serious?
Answer: By talking too much with other people in MSN it's quite easy to get confused with who are you talking with and it ended up you might be gossiping about someone elses, and you are actually talking to that person. It would make a huge mess and you would be in trouble or maybe humiliated at the same time. That is one reason of why sometims you should be carefull. If you're afraid that someone is going to hank you're MSN, you can always try not to REVEAL your password! It's a warning to everyone who doesn't want to get in trouble or especially humiliated!
What would be a responsible way to handle this situation?
Answer:A responsible way to handle this situation is to not reveal your password, but I think that it's also better to talk to at least one person at a time or maybe 2 or 3. Also another way is to see first who are you talking to before you write anything! Most troubles Kids are getting now is that they add anyone to their MSN without even knowing who they are, and it very dangerous!
How could a situation like this be resolved? How would one of the three main characters from The Revealers deal with this situation?
Answer:It's harder when the person doesnt REVEAL their name because you might mistakenly talk about someone else or maybe trying to figure out who is this person, but sometimes you can make a HUGE mess! Also might be hard to get away with it. Also like what Bethany did, she pretended that her story came from another person and "blame" it on herself. Sometimes it's better to not do anything then making a huge mess!
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Writing topic 2
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i agree with all your answers because sometimes when i talk with more than one friend in MSN i sometimes forget everyone that is on and i think that people should know who is on in the conversation and the less the people the easier it is to remember other people who are on
I agree with you and I like the way you've answered the questions. I also found the "framing situation" quite interesting.
i agree with what you said and that you did a good job on it... it was very interesting.
Nice job on your blog as general i like it very much! It's very decorative.
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Christina
i agree with your opinion but i think of it slightly different compared to yours. I think this question is talking about how to handle or prevent people from hacking into your account other than how to handle not talkin to strangers. And personally i think how many people you talk to a day dosent really matter. If you have 6 close friends does it mean that you shouldnt talk to them because they are all trust worthy and just because you talked to more than 2~3 friends it means that they are going to hack into yours. If you dont tell them then they would have no idea of knowing your password. Now days since the intelligence of technology has rised, people can very easily hack into yours using such programs.
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