Outline
Is Privacy Really Private?
Thesis:
Children and young adults are now learning that social networking is not
“private” and can result in consequences.
If you
stick a frog in a pot of hot water, the frog will immediately jump out.
A. Teenagers
and young adults are the frog, and we build a thought in our
head that we can
say anything we want on the web.
B. Alex
Koppelman, the author of “MySpace or OurSpace?” says: “Even
some police are
beginning to patrol MySpace, seeing the site as an
effective tool for catching
teenage criminals.”
II. Young
criminals get themselves into trouble with the law by making their own
evidence public on social media.
A.
“We
patrol the internet like we patrol the streets,” said Officer McNamee.
B. McNamee
says they’ve found pictures of graffiti, with the artists standing
next to it.
C. They’ve
found evidence of drug dealing too.
III . When
applying for a new job, the interviewer will not only take notes on how well
the interview goes, but also goes online to check your facebook.
This is
where the interviewer can see your true personality and how you interact with
your fellow friends.
My
friend Gabe went in for an interview for a retail business, and the interviewer
invited him back for a second one.
Gabe got a phone call the next day
from the
business, telling him that the second interview was cancelled because of
excessive profanity on his facebook page.
IV. Privacy
doesn’t sound so private anymore.
A. ”They
don’t understand that it’s the World Wide Web, they don’t get that
concept.
They think only their friends are looking at it.”
B. Gabe
learned the hard way by not understanding this, which cost him a big
job
opportunity.
V. Our nation functions through our government
that does not teach
teenagers about our exact rights.
A. In the article,”How
Computers Change the Way
We Think,”
Sherry
Turkle mentions, “Professors find that
students do not understand that in a democracy, privacy is a right, not a
privilege.”
B. Turkle provides
the evidence that social
networking is probably taken for granted from young adults.
VI.
Teenagers are most likely unclear of our rights as a citizen of America.
Koppelman
uses a high school study, conducted by researches at the University of
Connecticut, in his article.
“The
study found that 49 percent of students thought that newspapers should need
government approval for their stories, 75 percent didn’t realize flag burning
was legal, and more than a third thought the First Amendment went too far. Half
believed the government could censor the Internet.”
VII. Conclusion: The
grey space within the First Amendment has only
left us to be a dead frog in the
boiling water.
