Molly Lewis 2008, MyHope (original song), video recording, YouTube, viewed 26 March 2014, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avxpn_MsPYs>.
As this song states people use social media as an extension of society and self, posting personal information online in what they perceive to be a safe environment surrounded by friends. However doing so raises important issues. Lally writes about the negatives and positives of placing information online. On the one hand it "expands our capacity to store and preserve for the future", on the other it is difficult to then say who owns the information now it is in a public space (Lally 2005, p. 158). My Hope points out some of the "unintended consequences" of ICTs, information stays online forever and can be damaging, such as embarrassing comments or compromising photos (Davenport 2005, p. 20).
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