Yesterday I was reading an article on Yahoo.com about a girl from Buffalo, NY who was constantly being harassed by her ex-boyfriend through texts messages and online. She went as far as to get her phone number changed and changed her emails and online profiles for various websites. One night she receives a text message from an unknown number and who does it happen to be... her harassing ex-boyfriend saying, "you should keep to yourself and stay away from other people." This has now been termed as "textual harassment, and the fact that most of us would have a hard time ignoring it because the alert constantly going off until it is acknowledged. One problem is that most people must pay for text messages and as the victim said, "I am paying to be harassed".

Does this set an example of just less and less private our lives seem to be becoming with the aid of more and more forms of technology? Even when trying to create a new life and become annonymous we are unable to because in the end we are connected in some way back to that life that we were. Many people would argue that we do have complete control over what is happening with technology and how it is effecting our lives. For this college student though how was she to control the fact that someone was still looking for her for the pure enjoyment of harassment. I feel that this article sets a prime example of how we are not in control of how people can find us or what we are connected to via the internet. If someone is looking for you they will find you and no limits, that is why I do not trust the internet and I try to keep tabs and control over what may be posted about me. I know I cannot control everything but the world seems to be becoming smaller and smaller where people can know each other countries away from each other. With the growth of more and more technology we are seeing a shrinking in our everyday world and easier access to things that were once far far away and unexplored.