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This week fellow blogger Rebecca expressed her outrage about Instagram’s plans to introduce sponsored Instagram posts, AKA advertising. I tend to agree with what Rebecca is saying. If you have a good thing, why ruin it? I understand that Instagram is a business and their prime objective is to make money, although one of the most frustrating elements of other social channels is the advertising and infiltration of information I am not interested in. Sort of like the advertising discussed in this recent blog post of mine.

In Carli’s Blog she discusses the idea of teenagers preferring to live in the technological world rather than the real world. I was able to see this occur at a birthday party I was at recently. A teenager at the party was sitting at the table with headphones in one ear, constantly texting. Other teenagers at the party preferred to play games on their iPad than engage in conversation and socialise with the other 70-odd guests.

I couldn’t agree more with Dom’s blog post this week about privacy online. I had a similar situation that he did regarding being tagged in an incriminating photo on Facebook. Long story short, I didn’t give permission for the photo to be uploaded and it was. It was a photo that incriminated me with my employer and I received disciplinary action because of the image, even though it wasn’t on my account!