According to Erving Goffman, “When one individual enters the presence of others, he will want to discover the facts of the situation. […]To uncover fully the factual nature of the situation, it would be necessary for the individual to know all the relevant social data about the others.“ (Goffman, 7) Today, thanks to Facebook and social networking, these data can easily end in our hands.
Perhaps, people may already know our name and, if we are part of the same community, they could probably know what we do like. By looking at the last Facebook reports, the users of the popular social network became 1.15 billion in March 2013. After China and India, they represent the third largest country in the world. (The Facebook Blog) According to the inventor of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, the social platform is built by simple ideas which permits the world to be more open and connected. However, do we know how much access we permit to our personal information and thoughts? We should admit that since we joined Facebook we were never worried too much about privacy. But now, after many researches and articles came out people are beginning to look with greater interest on this issue. Moreover, privacy is the concept of being free from others’ intrusions, and it has changed relevantly through the advent of social networking. This paper, will in particular analyze how Facebook has influenced individuals and the contemporary society that has being exposed to an enormous number of information through the last years.
Firstly, Facebook is a social tool that permits people to understand the continuously “updated version” of the world around them and let them feel to be part of it. People subscribe to the social network because they need to stay in tou...
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Using the informal tone he enhances his argument by providing several thought-provoking statements that allow the reader to see the logic in the article, “Social media is designed for the information shared on it to be searched, and shared- and mined for profit… When considering what to share via social media, don 't think business vs. personal. Think public vs. private. And if something is truly private, do not share it on social media out of a misplaced faith in the expectation of privacy” (134). The reader should agree with Edmond that when posting or being a part of the social media bandwagon, you’re life and decisions will be up for display. Moreover, the business vs. personal and public vs. private point is accurate and logical, because evidently if you post something on any social media outlet you should expect that anyone and everyone can see it, regardless of your privacy settings. Edmond highlights that Facebook along with other social networking sites change their privacy settings whenever they please without
“The standards of what we want to keep private and what we make public are constantly evolving. Over the course of Western history, we’ve developed a desire for more privacy, quite possibly as a status symbol…”(Singer) Technological change leads to new abuses, creating new challenges to security, but society adapts to those challenges. To meet the innate need for privacy, we learn what to reveal and where, and how to keep secret what we don't want to disclose. “Whether Facebook and similar sites are reflecting a change in social norms about privacy or are actually driving that change, that half a billion people are now on Facebook suggests that people believe the benefits of connecting with others, sharing information, networking, self-promoting, flirting, and bragging outweigh breaches of privacy that accompany such behaviours,”(Singer) This is obvious by the continuous and unceasing use of social media platforms, but what needs to be considered is that this information is being provided willingly. “More difficult questions arise when the loss of privacy is not in any sense a choice.”(Singer) When the choice to be anonymous it taken away through social media, the person loses the ability to keep their personal information
The attraction of users to Facebook, or social media in general, isn’t that difficult to comprehend. Over the course of the past 60 years, the percentage of people live alone has increased by 17 percent. In the 50’s it was 10 percent, in 2010, it was estimated at 27 percent. The promise of a greater connection seems extremely attractive to those living in solitary. Here is the irony, what Facebook and Social media provides, differs a great deal from what is needed to create and sustain deeper emotional AND Lasting
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The topic we chose is Facebook's Privacy/Security. Facebook has become one of the most popular socia...
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