Week 2 - Tutorial Task

Part 1

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Part 2

Write a post about how you use new communication technologies to communicate with your friends and family.

I have used new communications to communicate with my friends and family for close to eight years. I started using them, primarily, because of peer pressure, in the sense that everyone was using them and if I wanted to connect with family/friends that were overseas, this would be the easiest and most cost effective way to achieve it. I found out about them mainly through friends who were already using them.

Privacy is always an issue for me when using these new technologies. I believe that in the majority of cases, the amount of information that companies, such as FaceBook and Google, collect from their users, is more than what they should be collecting. Often the information seems redundant. When it comes to my privacy, I try to censor as much personal information about myself as possible.

I do have friends that I have never met in person. They aren’t that much different to people I know in person. I speak to them both groups of friends as often as I can. Though one of the major differences is that I am able to see the people I know in person more than I get to see my friends from the Internet. But the concept of friendship, in both cases, are the same. I made friends with people from both these groups because they have similar interests as me.