Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Blog Prompt #2: Am I addicted to Google?

Why, yes I am!



I love Google!  And if anyone has heard me, I say it all the time, especially in this class.  I think my recent fascination with Google came with entering college.  I would run into problems that a textbook wouldn’t help me with, so I Googled it.

Every time!

Mainly I would Google Adobe questions I had, like how to make a liquid layout in Dreamweaver (which is how I made my personal site for this class).

Not only have I Googled questions I had for classes and programs, I’ve also Googled how to create ringtones for my iPhone (something my dad couldn’t figure out!)

And I’ve Googled problems I’ve had with technology.

And I always get an answer!

It might take a while, and some of those answers might suck a bit, but Google always helped me figure things out.

However, Google is great and all, but what about our privacy?  I will have to say that it concerns me a bit that Google tracks my location and recent searches to give me specific ads.  It’s really frightening, but it’s not going to frighten me away from Google. I usually just ignore it all anyway and pretend it doesn’t happen.  Google is tracking millions of people; they can’t possibly single out a single person for anything drastic, right?

It’s the search engine for me, and it will always be that way.

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