Privacy & Confidentiality

In present time, Privacy and confidentiality are big issues of new media. We should be very careful when we use new media.Before people didn't realize that there could be identity theft via new media. Facebook, Myspace etc has big issue of privacy now.People without knowing about identity theft, they give their real name ,address, phone number as well as date of birth.For people who are engage in stealling other inormation this type of inormaton are really useful for them, which is risky for us as we loss our privacy.They could sale our information to other buinesses for their own profits.
Besides that when we post our personal photos online in social networks or other form of new media, all people in the world can view our photo which is not private and confidential. We are lossing our privacy without knowing it. People can also know our friend circle through social networks.
Some how, there is way to keep track of this privacy and confidentiality problem. When we create our profile we should be very careful and smart. Do not give your real name and address and click on the options where it say friends only can view your profile. If we do that, it will help a little bit to keep our privacy within friends only. But we cann't gurantee that facebook or other social network sites are is going to keep our profile safe from stealling and selling.

Advice to Baruch College

So far, Baruch has been using the effective new media for providing information to students and faculty. Baruch has been able to provide instant information through e-mails, facebook, twitter etc. These are social networks and are some examples of new media.
I think Baruch is far more ahead of using new media. I am taking new media classe therefore I know more bout new medai than ever.So,I think Baruch need to do some more advertise or give some more information about new media to attract other students who might be interested to take this class. This is actually very interesting class. I was able to use Baruch wiki and explore trough it.

So far everything is fine but if they allow student to use new media to sell and buy books and other products would be great. This will save student's money and time. I think selling online to our fellows is better that selling our books in bookstore. This will also makes our college clean as students will stop posting on wall. Beside that I think Baruch should allow students to write review about the classes they already took by using new media. This might help other students.They have been using blackboard but I think they should satrt using wiki for collaboration