Anthony Weiner

We have discussed in class that anything you put on the internet is open for the world to see. I know that if I want to find out more about someone I can simply google them and likely find a Facebook profile or another platform that will tell me more about them. By simply looking up Anthony Weiner we can learn many things about him. A well-established political figure that belongs to the democratic party, but a certain blemish seems to take over Anthony’s name. Anthony was proven guilty for a sexting scandal in September of 2017. When the scandal first surfaced Anthony denied everything, but it was later noticed that he used Twitter to send the inappropriate messages. Since Twitter has access to anything anybody sends it was dug up and the media had evidence of the allegation, Anthony is now serving 21 months in federal prison. https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/25/politics/anthony-weiner-sentencing/index.html

                I’ve always been interested as to what social media platforms can and can’t do with the content that is published on their sites. In class I have learned that whatever they say on their rules and policies is fair game, if we accept and acknowledge that we have read them. I have noticed that most of us have allowed Facebook to record us at any moment in their most recent rules and policies. It makes since because many times before I have been talking about a certain thing like needing to buy new shoes and then all of a sudden ads for shoes start to pop up on my Facebook feed, creepy. http://digg.com/2017/facebook-phone-microphone-ads  Since social media platforms have so much control for what we do on them it can be easy for people to find out certain things about you. Like we stated earlier, anything you post on the internet is open for the world to see, and it seems that the more popular you become the more people can find out about you.