For my next post, I want to talk about Skype. I have no idea how to use it, but I want to know how. When I move to Minneapolis to seclude myself for Bar preparations, I want to be able to see my friends and family. I do have a concern over skyping though. Are myself and the recipient the Skype messaging the only ones who actually see the transmission. Or, is there a 3rd party that has the ability to view what is being skyped?
It may be a silly thought, but it is one that concerns me. I often post about the intrusiveness of social media. While Skype may not fit exactly into that category, it is certainly a method of broadcasting information about myself over the internet.
Here is another thought. What if someone is murdered while they are skyping with a friend? The friend claims he saw the murderer on his computer. Can authorities retrieve sent transmissions if there is a compelling need? And if they can, should they be able too?
Sometimes I have no idea why i have these thoughts, but then I realize that its my nearly 3 years of law school training that makes me look at a technology that brings families in a negative light. Anyway, if anyone reads this and wants to poke fun at me either for worries or my inability to use Skype, feel free.
Well Bob....I love skype. After my cousin headed over-seas to play hockey, I learned about it. I think that skype is a cost effective way to be able to "talk on the phone" with someone when they are in another country. In addition, I am a girl and made my best friend in Chicago pick out new glasses for me.
ReplyDeleteI never thought about someone looking at the posts on my skype but that is alarming. Not that I have anything in particular to hide but I feel that it is still my private speech. The problem with skype is that it keeps your coversation for up to a year, I think, and to delete the coversation you almost need to delete a contact and re-add them, if you do not want to delete each individual time you had pressed enter.
I agree that there should be times when the skype can be used for good, such as solving murders. The reality is that if a person is talking about a crime, the other person could almost print that off and bring it in as evidence?