1) After reading our lecture 8 items and watching The Curly Fry Conundrum, discuss the term "self regulation".

The "self regulation" we are talking about is how much a person considers or deliberates what they should and what they should not post or share on the internet and social media. On today's social media sites, people are exposing a large portion or their private lives on their profiles and accounts in the good spirit of connecting with friends and family. The problem we they are creating by divulging all this info is that it is being used to sell them things, deem them hirable to employees, and redefines who they are based on their online habits. 

There should be a program where people are better educated on how their data is being used for the social media company's purposes, so that when they post an adorable picture of their 7 week year old daughter, she is not being logged and uploaded into as a statistic to sell and advertise for things people don't even need. 

2) Currently, there is a huge battle between 1st amendment privacy, information sharing, and data mining online. In your opinion, should we do away with online privacy and self regulating? Or should the government step in and start regulating online content?

The internet is a place that should be free from 1st amendment regulation. Information is power and accuracy and facts are even more powerful, but to have a over arching authority over the internet or governmental regulation will put too much power into one entity's hands and create a un democratic use of the web. The government's job should not be that of regulation, but possibly that of education. Including social media and internet based education courses and classes so that the youth and future generations are not naive or hazardous to themselves on the implications of their participation of social media would be a great service to the general public and harbor the fragility of internet neutrality.  

Data Mining is inevitable and will go on as long as their is sensitive and potential lucrative information on the web, so it everyone's job to make an effort and to become educated around the sensitive information they have online.