Ethical Behavior in Digital Communication




Privacy Statement 

April 30, 2017

I am honored, now that I have finally decided that from now on I am going to be even more careful while handling information that belongs to myself, my family and my friends. I believe in the importance of personal information, and by personal information I mean; any information that may be used to identify myself, my family and my friends, such as full names and addresses. I am aware that there’s a danger in being careless with personal information, and on this basis, I solemnly promise to refrain from posting information online that may contain obscenities either as images or as words, that may in anyway misrepresent myself, my family and my friends. I am aware that there are cyber criminals and sneaky weirdo strangers out there who are ready to seize on any opportunity I may unknowingly let out. Having said that, my first action would be to give more attention to ethical behavior online.

On this last day of April, I am going to create my own "Personal Information Filter." I will create a shortlist of person-specific questions that relate to my online safety, and then use them to ask myself each time I have to post something online. Now, what this means is that, for example, if I answer a single “No” to any one of my questions, that means that I am not going to post it,  and that is going to be the work of this filter.

I will also take special measure to protect my offline information, like making sure to keep personal belongings such as bank statements, mails with my address, away from public areas. Meanwhile however, I know also, that there's another worse form of personal information sharing that is much more popular, and many times damaging, and you can hardly find anyone who hasn't done it. This type of information sharing is done both off and online, and it is worse than all the others. It’s Gossip!

Here would be a sample of What is Safe to Share:

1. I may share my favorite movie, but not my favorite theatre 

2. I may share my pet's name, but not which park I take her for walk

3. I can share that I like to jog, but not what track I use.

4. Which book but not what library

5. Share my view, but not if it's going to bring harm to someone



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