Being in the Public Domain Reflection

Some people have strong feelings about being in the public domain (meaning their pictures, thoughts, interests... can be potentially accessed by people they don't know). Explain your feelings? How do we address these concerns as teachers and role models? How do we teach this?

I guess I'm one of those people who see the use of the internet as a visit to an amusement park. There are various interesting things for you to see and experience, you can have a lot of fun, but there are also opportunities for unpleasant experiences (getting your wallet stolen, going on a ride that looks like fun but you end up feeling sick during or after, getting separated from your friends, etc. :) ) It's all about how you behave in certain situations, how you protect yourself from possible unpleasant experiences and how you go about solving a problem that comes up.

I guess I would try to teach my students to be informed, prepared, and take precautions to ensure the information that is out there about them is the information they wouldn't mind sharing with the rest of the world. Providing information about possible negative outcomes of sharing too much personal information and ways they could be remedied (if possible) would also be a good idea.