Liberating the Internet

  There are many problems facing with today's internet technology, especially social media, and that leads to the affect of having to liberate the internet. A Ted Talker named Wael Ghonim, shares his thoughts to everyone on how to liberate the internet and he points out 5 specific critical challenges facing today's social media users. First of all, he states that using social media spreads rumors everywhere that's hard to erase. Also, this impacts the people too because the people who see those rumors start believing them and that will make them bias. Second, he states that people who tend to use social media are more likely to make their own group of the people who thinks like each other similarly. For example, people only follow the people who they agree with and block or un-follow the people who disagrees. Third, he states that "online discussions quickly descend into angry mobs...It's as if we forget that the people behind screens are actually real people and not just avatars." So, he basically means that people will usually get in a sort of fight with each other over a specific topic in social media and they would only talk to the people they like. Forth, he states that when a post comes out that everyone agrees with, you will tend to believe it too. This will lead to the hardship of changing your opinion because of the fastness and speed of social media. Finally, Ghonim states ¨It´s as if we agreed that we are here to talk at each other instead of talking with each other.¨ This means that social media is made for positively socializing with people from different regions but instead, it´s going through the negative way because people are tending to argue with each other instead of supporting. These are the 5 critical challenges facing today´s social media based on what Wael Ghonim said. 

   Wael Ghonim also states different few suggestions of how to liberate the internet. One of the suggestions he states says ¨ if we want to liberate society, we first need to liberate the internet.¨ This means that the change of internet is based on the change of society. So if internet needs to liberate, the people of the society needs to liberate first or else it would't work trying to liberate the internet. The second suggestion that Ghonim states is the people in the society need to change by thinking more positively on the internet so positive information can spread around instead of having rumors or other negative stuff going around. These are the 5 challenges and suggestions that Wael Ghonim states for liberating the internet. 

Based on this personality test, I deeply agree with the strengths and weaknesses described here. In my personality description, it talks about the strengths. My personality strength is creative, insightful, inspiring, decisive, passionate, and altruistic. Out of the 6 strengths, I mostly agree on 3 of them because based on what I think, I'm usually not creative, decisive, nor altruistic. However, I agree that I am passionate, inspiring, and insightful. For my weaknesses, I am sensitive, extremely private, perfectionist, always need to have a cause, and can burn out easily. Based on my weaknesses, I deeply agree on all of them because the personality matches on what I think. It's true that I am sensitive to others, I am really private and don't like to share things, I am a perfectionist which I want everything to be perfect, I always need to have a cause which means I get disappointed when the result that I didn't expect comes out, and I burn out easily which means I get mad easily. These strengths and weaknesses match my trait and I get to know surely on what my personality is.
Another topic in which I can know my personality on is social engagement, or friend relationships. On the personality description of friendships, it says I am very quiet and when I try to make friends, it takes a long time to get to know them and get comfortable with them. Also, it says that I don't have a specific friend that always looks out for me and I'm always searching for a soul mate. Based on these statements about my personality, I think it's true about me and I agree about it because it matches on what I think about myself.

For my career path, it says I will get a career that I can help and socialize with people a lot and I will most likely get a career in healthcare like doctor, life coaches, psychologists, and etc.. I agree with my career paths because I wanted to get a career that connects to hospital stuff like pharmacists or nurses. However, the weaknesses of my career path is I will be sometimes forced to manage someone else's policies, alongside my own. This means it will be hard for me to find a leadership position and I agree with this because mostly, in my opinion, I lack a sum of leadership in me. I also agree with my strengths of my career path because before I knew about this, I thought about the career I wanted to work in and this description of my personality matches that.