Hello Fellow Bloggers!

Today during my Tech class, we had a guess speaker come in and talk about online safety and whether or not children should be allowed screen time. To say the least, I have learned A LOT today about the internet I use everyday.

Jesse Miller brought up some very interesting points about the internet I never knew and about apps I use everyday that frightened me. For example, the fact that every Snapchat I take – whether I send it to people or not – gets saved by Snapchat and they have all of those pictures stored somewhere. I decided to ask Jesse why Snapchat does this and what do they do with the billions of pictures they have stored.  He answered by saying that this data is essentially a way to keep their investors and prove to them that hey, people are using this app and you are investing into an app that people use everyday. It is also important if one day, the owners of Snapchat want to sell their software to another company, they have all this data to give to the knew owners. When Jesse told me this, it made a lot more sense. I did not understand what the point of keeping all those pictures with me and a stupid filter would benefit for their App.

I really enjoyed having Jesse come into our class today. I learned a lot of information I will carry with me forever!

As well, I edited an iMovie today for the first time in a long time! Although it does not seem like much, I cut time out, split a clip, added a transition, added titles, and lowered the volume of the second clip! Call me an iMovie queen!

See you in two weeks!

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