The document discusses concerns about privacy and anonymity online. It notes that putting your full name on the internet allows stalkers to potentially find you, so it's better to use initials, nicknames or altered names. However, the document also argues that if you post something inappropriate or regrettable online as a youth, you shouldn't be able to simply change your name later to avoid accountability, as making mistakes is how people learn and grow. Overall, the document weighs the tradeoffs between online privacy and accountability for one's past actions on the internet.

1. Humanities HW
Due September 20th 2010

2. My opinion
I think that in the article Google Name
Changes, it explains how when you put
your full name on the internet, stalkers
can find you. But, if you don’t put
your real name, for example, if your
name was Samantha Kliner and you
put on Google that your name is
Cammy Slin, then no one will know
who you are.

3. I think...
I think that if your name is Samantha
Kilner, then maybe you could put
Sammy K. as your Facebook name.
Then, your friends know who you are, if
they call you Sammy, and no one who
doesn’t already know you, knows your
last name, or your real first name.

4. I think... (continues)
Also, you could have a picture of you
(maybe just your face) and then your
friends would recognize you. But don’t
take the picture right in front of your
house, where your street name and
address number is viewable.

5. Awesome...right???
Then, your safe, and you have lots of
Facebook friends!!! ;) But that’s not the
real point of the article.

6. The Article
The article shows that, Google is getting
more and more efficient. If you write
something mean and maybe a bad word
about someone, some programs can
delete that automatically. Google is
almost taking over our lives.
Everything we do, Google knows it!!! ;)

7. Uh-Oh!!!
So be careful, you could have a stalker
at your door!!! :()

8. J.K.
Just Kidding!!! :)

9. Good???....Bad???
Some people say it’s good. Like maybe
if you’re accused of something, you
show on Google that you were at home,
on Skype the whole time. Then, they
figure out the real murderer. Whoo-pee!!!

10. Good???....Bad???
Not quite yet! PEOPLE are getting more
and more into technology as well. Not
just the computers! They can probably
hack into your account and get all your
personal information.

11. Google is taking over!
Also, the article lists that, you don’t
need Google on your trail all the time.
When you ask a question, Google
answers it. You need help, Google has it.

12. I don’t know...
For some people, that’s awesome. But,
what if you don’t want the internet
making all of your decisions??? Can’t
it stop running your life for you???

13. So...
The article is called Google Name
Changes, because when people are older,
the person who wrote the article predicts
that they’ll be able to change their
names. Maybe in the future, that could
happen.

14. So... (continues)
It might happen because when people are
13, and they write something dumb on
Facebook, (for example) they could
change their names when they turn 18
or 20, so that they won’t have to live in
shame of what they put on the internet.

15. But I think...
But if yo do something stupid on the
internet, you have to learn. If you put
an inappropriate picture on Facebook,
then you have to learn from your
mistake. If you can just change your
name two years later, from Lily to
Skyla, then you don’t learn not to do it
again. You don’t learn.

16. That’s life!!!
One of the reasons we get smarter and
smarter in life, is because of mistakes.
Mistakes are good when you learn from
them. Then, you won’t make that
mistake again. Without mistakes in
life, we wouldn’t get smarter. That’s the
main reason I think that you should not
be able to change your name...

17. That’s life!!!(continues)
...just because YOU made a mistake!
You should learn from it, and not do it
again.