Transcription for My First Presentation

(In very beginning)

Hello, everyone, I am Kevin. Today, we are going to discuss the privacy issue on Facebook.

(Alice Presentation)

And for me. Well, in some degree I really approve some of Alice’s points. For example, Facebook really should take responsibility for the, to our private privacy. For example they should protect our user ID, IP address and something like that. But in some degree I think (that) the privacy issue on Facebook is not exactly as what Alice said. And … here are some examples I found on books and Internet. For example, actually all of us love to … spy on others’ privacy. For example, in our conversation, will you ask your friends, what do eat today, will you? And will you ask your friend, for example, do you sleep well yesterday? Or how’s your homework. How’s your homework, right? (Response from audience) Yeah, actually our nature really, yep. We love to know others. And there is a concrete, uh, example built by Freud(佛洛伊德). He says, well, own to know how others make their living. It is a… a desire from our childhood. Because in our childhood, we all want to know where do we come from. And then, we can know in ancient China, the. We can know how the novel, Dream of the Red Chamber,(紅樓夢) to be the jewel in the literature. It provides readers, uh… , a precious way to bypass the wall built by the reality of poor and wealthy. It provides us a way to know the wealthy family, the maybe the most wealthy family at that time, to make their living. (And) How the forbidden love begins.

And then we can still see another evident example in nineteen century, U… United States of America. It is about the newspaper industry. Uh… When the newspaper was invented in. It just like a bulletin, only to provide news, monotonous news or several comments about it (them). But… our… smart business men found another way to make it as a, to …., to make a bigger (better) profit. They introduce a lot of street thrillers and gossips. And in some degree just like the, to pipe others’ privacy. And there is an, uh, obvious data to prove this really make success. In 1808, it only sells 432 newspaper a month. But after businessmen added all these methods into ne… newspaper industry, it begin to sell 1582 newspaper a month. It is a great deve… evolution.

 And then, our notion toward privacy evolves again. In later twenty century, uh, when the blogging (blog) invented, it open a new era for individualism. What is the individualism here means? It means that we no longer have to passively receive the information from outside. But today, we can demonstrate ourselves. So, everyone has a Facebook in this class room, right? Would you like to let your post gain a lot of Like. 就是得到很多的讚. Please raise your hand if you like it. Yeah, ok, we all like right? And… would you love to your picture you upload to the Facebook to get a lot of uh… attention? Right? (Response from audience) Everyone likes it, right? So in this one we found out that. Well, everyone loves to be… (pause). To be watched (said the teacher)? Yeah, to be watched. So, as you can see, we love to share out our private information to get trust, to get response from our friends. It also prove a psychiatrist (psychology) theory.

And so I think the privacy issue on Facebook is not the problem that, uh, come out from the, this is, this is, uh… and or a some, uh… Well, I want to say, it is only privacy problem as she’ve (has) talked about. Facebook has been built for just what we want. We want to let everybody look at us. So in this privacy issue. And so I think in the near future, our… there will be less obstruction about the information share. So our privacy notion has to change. That’s my presentation. Thank you.