The Internet has become a part of our life. He made the world smaller and more accessible, but in this world it is now easy to find even what you would not want to show. What are the dangers of the World Wide Web?
The Web is often referred to as the ocean, on whose waves we glide, light and free, as if it were a space outside of “real” life. The image is beautiful, but not too true.
The Internet is a new world, a New World, the emergence of which has become even more important than the discovery of America. This is a world without territories, and in addition, it is next to us. The sudden expansion of the sphere of our existence establishes for us a different way of connecting with others, a different way of inventing our lives, and this shock is quite significant.
The New World, which is not always virtual, contrary to what we often say. Because as soon as we exchange information, we start relationships, become attached to people who soon become our neighbors, and even close ones.
A close person online is a curious character of our unguided modernity, a character to whom we can say everything and show everything to ourselves. But the Web inspires concern (piracy, digital footprint), even a little afraid of it.
But as soon as the user enters the Internet, he instantly forgets that the Web is huge and its memory is deep. As if he had started his own little world there, his own shelters, his own paths.
The network remembers everything. It rarely occurs to us what part of ourselves we leave in it.
This world is psychologically pleasant (after all, at the slightest problem, you can immediately turn off), in it a person feels safe. He doesn’t know what part of himself he is actually leaving there. Not only “personal data”, which is often spoken and written about, defending the right to privacy, but really a part of one’s personality, which is more and more important. After all, we recognize and perceive the other in five seconds by the few “signs” that he left on the Web.
The problem is that we have many lives within one, that we are multifaceted, that we are constantly changing. And the landmark on the Web refers to a certain context, to one of the many moments that, perhaps, the other has long forgotten or would like to forget. But, alas, the Network remembers everything!
Moreover, she has the unpleasant ability to fish out the most embarrassing episodes (everyone has their own moments of weakness), which are put on public display, as soon as someone becomes interested in Mr. N and type his first and last name in a search engine to find out who he really is.
You are much more defined by scattered pieces of information on the Web than by what you yourself say about yourself.
Poor N can justify himself as much as he likes, lose his temper, assure that this whole story is long in the past, but now his words are given less and less significance. They answer him: “yes, yes,” and they themselves smile knowingly.
Each of us now has a digital trail. And this is just the beginning.
Look up what people are saying about you online. Even now, these scattered fragments define you much more than what you yourself assert about yourself!