Topic > The Pros and Cons of Mediated Communication - 937

In 2009, Bryan Rutburg, a Microsoft employee, discovered that his Facebook page had been hacked and was being used to receive money. The hacker was sending a message to his friends that he and his family had been kidnapped and held at gunpoint. The message ended with a request for money and eventually the hacker received the money he was looking for (D'Eon, 2011). Bryan's situation shows us how easily we trust that the person we are talking to is the person he says he is. After watching the documentary, my eyes were definitely opened. No matter how safe a website claims to be, there's always the chance that something posted, by you or by people you know, will come back and haunt you in ways you least expect. There are several behavioral changes that I will make thanks to the information I learned from this documentary, proving that it is something that needs to be observed and understood by students in the future