Technology blog

The series articles that we read told stories of the various troubles with advancing technology. One of them was about a program called second life, which lets a user create an online identity to interact with other users. While this could be a good way to socialize with others, there are a series of risks and dangers. One thing which the users can do is date and even marry other user's avatars, or online identities. A user could create an avatar that is a different age or gender and use that in negative ways towards other users. Another of the articles was about the dangers about putting information such as credit card mumbers online. This one does not concern me as much, as I do not own a credit card. Even if these articles do not apply to me personally, they have opened my eyes to the issues of putting personal information online.