First days in high school: Data Tracking

This week in Ms. Payseurs class we learned about how people track your data online. We learned how people track your data through schemes and other types of ways. We also learned how to use this online scrapbook called Mixbook.

The new terms we learned this week were track, target, demographic, cookies. The first term we learned about was track. Tracking online is when companies collect information about you based on your online behavior. Another term we learned was target. A target is when companies tailor content to you based on the information they have collected about you. When you go on Google or some other kind of search engine it gives you suggestions this is the same thing. Demographic is common categories of the population such as age, gender, and race. Cookies are data files stores on your computer when you visit certain sites, which are often used companies to identify a repeat customer. They use these to personalize a customers experience.

This all tied in with our digital literacy component. The digital literacy component is why companies track your data and what they do with it. The reason companies track your data is because when they track it they can sell it for money. A couple of main ways you can avoid this are When you play a game online that you have to sign up for make sure you read the terns of use. Another main way you can avoid it is by changing your computer setting to restrict cookies. Then after they collect your information and they sell it you may start to get a lot of spam on your E-mail and other types of things.

The next cool thing we leaned how to use was this website called Mixbook. Basically Mixbook is a online scrapbook. It lets you do almost anything you would want to do with a regular hard copy scrapbook. The best part about is it is free to make it just costs you to get it published. The positive things about this is it was pretty easy to use. It was kind of easy to navigate around the site It was also easy to upload pictures. The negatives of this site were it was not very easy to change the size of your text boxes. That was really the only main problem I had with it they could still try to make it easier to navigate around the site. This is the mixbook that I created to

The new information I have learned this week will help me keep my information safe from people that may be tracking me. For the most part this week has been pretty good. We are having a lot of fun in our brand new building. I am having a lot of fun with spirit week. Most of the teacher of been awesome. I am making good grades and have some pretty cool friends.

As always ready for a long restful weekend. Yall be good now ya here.