There was not much history and background of private messaging applications. Private messaging applications were purposely created to avoid private messages from being read by an unauthorized individual and be untraceable or destroyed after the messages were read. With the recent success and popularity of the application called Snapchat in 2014 and its disappearing messages, Confide application developers created the application based on the same idea for apple only devices but will develop an android version in the future. The difference was that Confide was created to be used in the business workplace and benefit the employers who implemented it. Confide allowed business users to send confidential messages that were not able to be leaked or be traced through the legal discovery process that was used for emails. The private messaging applications replaced the traditional email and phone call communication that it was either beneficial or treacherous to the businesses depending on their business ethics.
The case had some details that were beneficial and detrimental to the businesses. The details were that if a message needed to be traced, it was not going to happen because the process of legal discovery that was used on email communication could not be used the same way. With that in mind, employers raised concerns about how the businesses were vulnerable to unethical improper communication and behavior by the individuals and Confide suppressed them. The common issues that were triggered from the usage of Confide in the workplace could have been discrimination, sexual harassment, and insider trading of information. The benefits of Confide was that the application interface made it difficult for the messages to become unconfident...
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Texting has affected face to face relationships in a way that we can no longer converse in person with the people close to us. We find it much easier to send someone a text message than to speak to them in person. Through text messages we are able to make the person believe we feel a certain way, when in fact we could be feeling the exact opposite. By doing so, there would be no way of knowing how one truly feels since the person is not there to see into their emotions by vocal and facial expressions. This causes habitual texters to limit their ability to form future relationships, since they do not get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues. It might be easier to send someone a message when one is hurting, but in reality one is only isolating oneself from the people who want to help. This could eventually bring someone to their end.
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Cell phones are common objects found in the pockets and bags of almost everyone one in the world. Recently, cell phones have been getting teens and adults into trouble. Most individuals send and receive text messages. The newest trend among some individuals is “sex-texting” or “sexting.” Sexting is a dangerous yet contagious phenomenon contaminating the lives of teens and adults all over the country, if not the world. This phenomenon can have serious consequences. Even after surveying 1300 teenagers, one in five say they’ve sexted, although they know that it could be a crime (Feyerick and Steffen). Sexting is a growing epidemic and the only way to prohibit its growth is to develop close relationships with the kids of today’s society.
Previously it took a lot of equipment to monitor a person's actions, but now with technology's development and advancement all it requires is a computer. And there are many mediums which can be monitored such as telephones, email, voice mail, and computers.4 People's rights are protected by many laws, but in private businesses there are few laws protecting an individual's rights. 5 As an employee of a company there is an understanding of the amount of monitoring the employer does. The employer has to decide how much monitoring is necessary to satisfy the company needs without damaging the company's employee morale.6 With all the monitoring done by private businesses they are free to violate employee privacy since the Constitution and the Bill of Rights a...
Albert Einstein once said, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity”. Technology is completely different in today’s society than it was one hundred years ago. People back in the day could not use technology to communicate with other people. Although people use technology today to keep in contact with other people, the sense of privacy has been lost. In Robert Samuels’ article “Breaking Down Borders: How Technology Transforms the Private and Public Realms”, he explains how a lady on a cell phone is a cafe having a conversation is not private at all considering he and many others around her can hear the whole conversation. He sates that, “A woman on a cell phone seems to have no problem sharing her Las Vegas plans with everyone sitting around her” (320). People think that just because they are having a conversation on a cell phone does not mean that
One of the hottest topics in privacy is regarding our phone conversation with others. It doesn't take a whole lot these days to be in someone's business, in their conversation, breaking the law of privacy with out spending that much time and money. "…Compared to an average monthly phone bill of seventy dollars, the option to wiretap the average phone line is probably worth less than twelve cents a month to police and spy agencies."1 These days, when information is transferred from one person to another, or from point A to point B, there are more people who are interested in know what they are talking about, not just to know but to benefit something out of it. This is illegal if it is done without the knowledge of the individuals involved. Since people are not giving communication privacy enough attention, it is getting to the point that it is out of control of anybody. Anybody can just get up and get in to others conversation with out their knowledge. This is having a big effect in out community these days. There are a lot of scenarios were people are involved in this situation.
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Social networking has become increasingly popular over the past few years, especially with many new media sites and apps being released. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Linkedln are perfect examples of social media sites where people can post what they are doing and where they are at with pictures for the general public to see. Different companies and establishments are using social networking to check on their employees and to see how they carry themselves out side of work. Outside of our work and jobs, we represent the companies and establishments that we work for. Major companies and establishments want their employees to be responsible and act maturely when they are inside and outside of work. Employees are expected to hold the integrity of the company and their image.
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Mr. Alan Wilson is a business professor for the University of Strathclyde. The author is an expert because of his education and experience. Wilson summarizes the book The Business of Influence, explaining the importance of all employees taking responsibility in the use of social media and how employees are all influencers. This article will help the paper explain how all employees are influential.
“We barely have time to pause and reflect these days on how far communicating through technology has progressed. Without even taking a deep breath, we’ve transitioned from email to chat to blogs to social networks and more recently to twitter” (Alan 2007). Communicating with technology has changed in many different ways. We usually “get in touch” with people through technology rather than speaking with them face to face. The most popular way people discuss things, with another individual, is through our phones. Phones have been around way before I was born in 1996, but throughout the years, they have developed a phone called a “smart phone”. The smart phone has all kinds of new things that we can use to socialize with our peers. On these new phones, we can connect with our friends or family on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Technology has also developed Skype, a place you can talk with people on the computer with instant voice and video for hours. The new communication changes have changed drastically from the new advances made in technology through our smart phones, social networking sites, and Skype.
Today’s generation is misses everything that is happening around them because they can’t seem to stop staring at their phones. Technology offers a way to communicate effectively so that every member of a family can keep in touch. From text messaging facebook and emails, communication has never been easier. However there are times when
Twitter described as the “SMS of the internet” is another online social network created in 2006 by Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass and Biz Stone. Twitter is a social network and micro-blogging service that enables users to send and read “tweets”, limited to the use of 140 characters. It is mainly used to communicate with other members of similar interests whether they know each other and to follow updates from celebrities. Mark D. Bowles comments: