Blog Assignment #6

In the Arak Anthology page 33, Megan Ramirez wrote the essay, “The Publication of Your Personal Profile”, which is about publishing private information on the Internet through social networking. The author explains about how she would wait until her class will be done for the day and go home to start up socializing through the internet by entering a social networking websites called “Myspace” and “Facebook”. Throughout her essay, the author describes how the users of those two social networks would greatly affect their reputation because of how they would just reveal their private information online. Researchers that were mention on the essay tells how these social networks are not really that secured at all even if users only allow people they assigned to look at their profile. A quote from one source that the author applies: “from a security standpoint”, the author explaining that if people would want to keep their personal lives private, they should not even use these social networking websites at all. The author believes that it would jeopardize a user’s reputation at work, school and social life if it is use inappropriately. The writer chose this material to show her interest to her peers about public cases relating to her topic of choice. The essay shows a full image and information about the writer’s intentions to give her option about the issue. Readers will be most likely be affected from her writing to their online community and internet usage.