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In Tom Freidman's book "The World is Flat", he speaks about the world being flat in the sense that the competitive playing field is leveled. Globalization's three stages overtime has developed society into what it has turned into today. He also speaks of there being ten flatteners of how the world was developed. One of the most important flatteners mentioned is the uploading flattener. It speaks about how you can upload anything onto the web for anybody to view. People have to be very careful what they post onto the internet in this time era because technology has made it possible to access private information that shouldnt be displayed to the public. For example, online banking has made it possible for you to view your account information through the internet. This tool is very vulnerable for people to commit identity fraud and steal people's money with no clue how it was done. This changed a lot of companies strategies in the way they handle business. People in this day and age can post just about anything they want onto the internet. If you want to learn how to do something, you can just go on a search engine and find numerous websites with regards to what you are looking for. Another example is the website youtube, where you can view videos uploaded to the internet for millions of viewers to see. This could have been single handedly one of the most important things to ever happen to the development of society. This has made the world completely connected with each other at all times. Websites like Yahoo and MSN upload new information onto their websites for the world to see as soon as it happens. It also keeps people up to date with each other. If the world keeps uploading new found information onto the internet, then society will be able to constantly develop and advance faster and faster as time goes on.