In my part of the subtopic, I have talked about the websites that I trust and feel safe on. A social media website that I have been a user for years on is Twitter. Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and read short 140-character messages called “tweets”. Registered users can post and read tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them, and not post. 2016 Twitter, Inc. In the article that I am about to discuss, I felt confident reading about it, because the Twitter team talked about how they feel their users need to feel safe in order to fully express themselves. In essence, they want users to know that what they write will not be violated, and that it is their personal space to write what they want, © 2016 Twitter, Inc. I do feel Twitter has copyright claims informed by the team, that claims, if a person, business or whoever has created content, and infringes on copyrighting the material that they tweet about, you can be reported, and even charged, since Twitter is widely focused on providing news for the public, and some of it can be vital information.

Overall I think the changes in social media policies in current times, may have made an impact on the overall experience of using these sites, compared to the past. Some companies have mislead people to believing their website were secure and safe, while other sites, actually take action and force their ability to ensure safety is provided for users using their site. I think people breach copyright material because they lack the creativity to come up with their own, hence referring back to intellectual property, and the creators of these sites. We have to be extremely careful even ourselves with copyright material, because I feel over the next ten years by 2025, people are only going to become more famous, and grow their themselves into an empire from certain social media websites, and we as users have to be cautious of what we put out, and where it came from.

By: Michael Tomczak, 2016