HABIT / ADDICTION
What is an example of a positive/negative habit?
+ Brushing your teeth twice a day
- Biting your nails
True or False: If someone sends you a suspicious/random link, you should you click on it (just for good measure)
FALSE
What is a cybervetter?
Will media ever be completely recreational ever again?
Most likely not. Apps such as Vine are probably gone forever; nothing is used purely for fun and games anymore, as the main motive and priority these days is to make profit.
What is an example of an addiction?
Uncontrollable substance use (cocaine, heroin, nicotine, etc.)
What is the most common (easily hacked) password?
123456
What is the difference between shallow cybervetting and deep cybervetting?
Shallow cybervetting is a more surface level search for personal information (snowball effect).
Deep cybervetting is a more intense version of shallow cybervetting, where one is able to hack an account, crack a password, and get into private accounts.
Why is self-portrayal important on social media?
Employers do cybervet, and therefore you want to make your image look as pure and clean as possible. If you willingly post content with you underage drinking, doing drugs, or just being an idiot, that drastically decreases your chances of being hired.
What is the main difference between habit and addiction?
Choice is still present-- to an extent-- with habit-forming behaviors.
What are three ways you can enhance your security on social media?
1. Don't disclose personal info in your bio, such as university, graduation year, where you live, etc.
2. Review each image you post and make sure there are no hints to your location
3. Don't let people follow you who you don't trust, and don't follow people you don't trust
True or False: Employers hire trained professional cybervetters that earn high salary.
TRUE
What is one way Youtube differs from the early 2000s?
Amateur production is rising-- people are making longer videos with a higher quality (not to mention people are able to monopolize it and make bank)
When does habit turn into addiction?
Once a habit becomes damaging, destructive, or you lose all agency, it is considered an addiction.
Personal: What was one thing you realized after fasting technology?
I realized how dependent I am on my phone, but also how much of that dependency is not my fault. Society today cannot function without technology, and we are forced to comply. I also realized how grounded and calm I felt, as opposed to my everyday anxiety.
What is social engineering?
The use of deception in order to manipulate people into giving away/exposing their personal information... may be with fraudulent motives, bad intentions...
What is considered a red flag to employers on LinkedIn?
500+ connections... dude, we know you don't know that many people...
Overhyping yourself... it's so obvious it's painful
True or False: Technology is addictive
FALSE (contrary to popular belief, including mine)
Cambridge Analytica collected millions of Facebook users' data without consent.
Name five ways you can protect your privacy.
1. Implementing two-factor authentication
2. Changing security questions to lies
3. Changing account names to pseudonyms
4. Complicate your passwords
5. Turn off some targeted advertising through settings (if possible) (but who actually takes the time to do this, I guess we have to deal with being stalked by Mark Zuckerberg)
What are the motives behind Deepfake technology?
Don't get me wrong, deepfakes can be used for humor, but in most instances they are abused through trying to hurt others (ie. politics/elections, competition within social media can lead to pressure to deepfake to meet standards, or just to fu*k someone over in general)
However, banning deepfakes is not an option because a myriad of things such as films, would also have to be banned.