Monday, I was mindful about the way I interacted online socially and financially through electronic devices.<\/p>\n
I watched two episodes of \u201cNew Girl\u201d on Netflix before starting in on my task for the day: figuring out what I\u2019ll be doing about my lease and future roommates.<\/p>\n
I messaged two girls on Facebook that have already expressed interest in the apartment complex where I currently reside and shared the complex\u2019s website and pictures with them. I have no idea if Facebook now has rights to these images or if by linking to a leasing page, the web service will somehow use that information to give me ads about other apartments in the future or make note of it.<\/p>\n
I then logged on to my apartment\u2019s webpage to renew my lease online. By agreeing to virtually sign a lease online, I made a legal commitment to follow through with another lease and its payments. The apartment\u2019s web service already had my parent\u2019s financial information on file as well as my legal information because I already had a lease with this complex. I wouldn\u2019t agree to sign a lease online if I hadn\u2019t already completed one before in-person where I had to provide my driver\u2019s license, proof of insurance, and other documents.<\/p>\n
I used Snapchat to communicate with my friend that lives in Egypt to confirm plans for her visit to Raleigh this upcoming weekend. I also googled the weather here and in Egypt for the upcoming week and while browsing later online, saw suggestions for travel books show up when I logged on to Amazon.<\/p>\n
My contributions online can divulge information that\u2019s more telling about myself than I realized. For example, my apartment complex rents primarily to students so my presence on their website and mentioning it on Facebook could show that I am a college student. The fact that I agreed to sign my lease online may be information contributed to a database tallying a number of online leases being signed and whether that is a growing transition away from hard-copy leases and other legal documents. My Netflix choices could divulge my gender and my Google searches can be a way for online shopping websites to collect information and a \u201cprofile\u201d of products I\u2019m most likely to purchase.<\/p>\n
Is the integrity of my \u201cvirtual signature\u201d something that could be accessible by a third-party or used in other ways from what I intend in the future? Will the conversations I have online be used for collecting data about me and my friends?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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