Wednesday, December 5, 2018

First and Only Presentation

Beginning today, students of groups of at least 4 were given the task of presenting on a topic relating to the workings of the world wide web to the class. My group had decided to present on the idea of Online Shopping and how it has marked a great change in the marketing and consumer industry as you can purchase whatever you may fancy online without having to physically be at the store itself.

Topics that had gone over by other groups were Drones and Cyber-crimes while Monday's groups gone over AI (Artificial Intelligence) and Self-Driving Cars. If I had to pick one that kind of interested me the most out of all of them would be the one regarding cyber-crimes, since I think that it will never disappear for good.

I'm aware, or at least have a fundamental understanding, of the statistics in terms of the cyber-crimes that are committed day-by-day, but it always gets to you or fascinates/intrigues you once the numbers are revealed (and they sure did for me). I mostly detest the idea of meeting someone through online for the first time since you can never truly be sure of his/her origins and that their displayed information could easily be fabricated; I prefer to have the sources firsthand and then judge whether or not the person he/she presents themselves as is truly genuine and not roaming around with a fake identity. The video displayed during said presentation regarding a man well over his 20s wanting to have some sort of sexual affair with a minor (14 year old) and completely disregarding the consequences was beyond creepy and I'm glad he paid the price. However, not everyone who commits cyber-crimes go away unpunished which is extremely unfortunate.

Only time will tell when people will truly receive punishment for trying to ruin other people's lives through cyber-crimes.

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