Legal Age for Blogging

In all of the articles we have read this week, the idea of privacy was somewhat touched on. Mostly centered around having privacy, or a lack there of, on the internet. The way I see it is in any situation you have as much privacy as you want. No one is making anyone post anything on the internet, so why is it someone else’s problem if your information is taken from there and used elsewhere? Someone going through your mail and stealing your identity is a breach in privacy, not someone getting your home address off of facebook. With the fact that most of these issues with internet privacy are among younger kids who are having run-ins with child predators, it almost makes it seem like there should be a legal age to be on the internet at this point. If parents are so worried about what their children are doing and putting on the internet then they need to take control of that situation and put limits on what their children do. This all reminds me of being in high school. There would always be new rules being added and it would be because of that one kid who was an idiot and did something stupid so they now had to enforce a rule about it. People who are stupid enough to enter in all of their information on websites and or talk to strangers are giving these things a bad rep and making us all look bad. No one should complain about their privacy online because truthfully it is not the place to put yourself out there and have secrets. The internet is so intertwined and can be saved on any ones computer, meaning whatever you write might just be around forever. People need to go back to hand written diaries. Giving people the right to drink at 21 is a test of responsibility, you can go out and get hammered or you can drink responsibly. The internet almost runs along those lines, without a definite age limit..or at least one that can be successfully monitored. You can either be responsible online and watch what you click and what information you give out, or you can put your life on the web and never get it back.