Julia Mckinnell Control Erase Summary

According to Julia Mckinnell in the article “Control, Alt, Erase” she talks about how social networking has become a problem for teenagers, and how parents can serve as “a role model” by helping and making sure that their kids personal information is safe. Mckinnell gives important reasons why parents should be aware of the consequences that social networks can have on their children. Posting a message, a tweet, or a photo online can give away the location and time it was posted. This data can be used to identify, or to gather personal information. For example, Tech companies gather personal data onto teenager's social media accounts for profit (Mckinnell). Also, jobs might look to gather data about certain individuals to know who they hire. Therefore, it's important for parents to teach their children risks involving sharing personal information to the public.
Mckinnell talks about ways that parents and social networking companies can help teenagers protect their personal information they share online. The author advises social networking companies to
Mckinnell gives some examples about why people should be careful when they are sharing personal information on social media. For example, "A photo of your daughter, for instance, can tell a stalker where she parks her bike, which shortcut she takes home, and what school she attends"(Mckinnell).These kinds of situations give away valuable information of ourselves for someone to harm us. Therefore, the author makes me think that my use of social media has made my life to be unsafe. Also, social media has ultimate control of world, because it has become a tool to know where we are right now. I like Mckinnell's perspective on parents give a lot of freedom to their children at very young age without regarding all the risk they are putting