Everything's a problem but these are my arguments #graded

Alright well I was planning on blogging on a prompt about problems with spelling and spell check but that wasn't assigned. darn. Maybe I'll just randomly blog that post sometime else (maybe meaning one day when I have time. Having time meaning never).
SO. Computers. Are they good or bad? The Sugarplum Fairy or Cruella de Vil? Skywalker or Vader? Ok, I actually don't know if that last comparison was correct since I've never seen a Star Wars movie, but I normally just pretend to be a sci-fi junkie. The fact of the matter is that computers are excellent and amazing and revolutionizing and all but they bring about some major issues to debate. Thanks to Chapter 4 of some amazing textbook I have some listed below with my opinions tacked on.

• Loss of Privacy- Yes yes yes. Major problem (I'm just going to address social networking) I know Facebook is supposed to be "more secure" than its competitor, MySpace, and it does but the privacy settings keep changing, allowing for more creeping on strangers (by accident in most cases). The biggest issue is that the masses don't maintain privacy settings. WAY too many people know WAY too much about eachother. I thought my privacy was high until I added pictures the other day and friends of my mutual friend through another friend (did that even make sense?) liked some pictures. Can you say creepy? I know I can. Especially because I really don't know these people at all, they could be class-A murderers for all I know (or don't know from their profiles). Don't even get me started on Twitter. It really is quite unsettling to think that anyone can see that I'm eating a vegan dinner or freaking out about a test or going on a vacation. Overall, there needs to be more education about the sharing of personal information. 

• Creation of a two-classed society: those who can afford computers and those who cannot:  Not a problemo in developed countries for 3 reasons. First, computers (and smartphones for that matter) are becoming lower priced and more accessable to the public. Not everyone needs a fancy Macbook Pro that can do everything under the sun, they just need a functioning screen with a keyboard attatched. Two, if an occupation, like student or office-worker, needs a computer they will most likely be provided with one at their place of work. If not then, third, there are public computers located from the public library to a local coffee shop.
  On a worldwide scale, there may be a problem at hand seeing that many countries in Africa are still working at feeding the majority, let alone providing technology to all. This is an obvious setback to a continent that is already bearing the weight of so many setbacks. It is our job to help them out, to spend our money on developing education of third-world countries instead of on drugs, alcohol, and fancy cars. We need to follow in the footsteps of Oprah Winfrey.

• Pornography, slander, and villification on the Web: Not a problem. Please, its not as if the internet brought these things about. If people want to read/write/view something they will find a way to. End of story.

• The death of the daily newspaper as a form of print media: As an aspiring journalist here this one broke my heart a little bit as I read it and realized that it is so true. We can already see this happening in society, the Star Trib. is having problems and was (I'm not sure if it still is) threatening to go purely electronic. As much as I love the classy factor of having a printed newspaper, I know that the internet will take over the news industry, simply because it is cheaper and more accessible. The biggest problem will be getting readers of the daily to continue to visit the online site daily so that the paper can stay in business. I'm sure a majority of readers will already know how to do this or already do it (hence the collapse of printed paper), but that minority that doesn't have daily access to a computer, doesn't know how to work one, or is just plain lazy will be a loss of readers for the newspaper which will result in less revenue and that cues the economic down spiral of capitalism. yay.  

If you're still reading this I congratulate you. It takes some endurance to make it through my rambling of opinions (especially because I'm stuck in a bit of a parenthesis rut).