The last 10 to 15 years has introduced new and exciting technology and with this technology social media has been introduced and has become increasingly and rapidly popular with everyone around the world, especially young people. This is due to the easy access to information, connecting socially with friends, watching programs and movies, playing games and interacting in chat rooms. But social media has also continued, since its introduction, to gradually reduce the privacy of its users and have the issue of common mistreatment of uploaded personal information. The exploitation of privacy and related issues such as, targeted advertisements, digital footprints and protection laws and all need to be closely inspected. The development of new technologies and social media is having a negative impact on the privacy of young people and also their families. If no action is taken to spread awareness and the consequences of using these new technologies and social media young people will increasingly become victims and the internet will become a minefield for everyone.
In the 21st century, digital media has gain popularity from young adults. There are over 1 billion users solely registered on Facebook (Solberg, 2014). However, issues of privacy and publicity are being brought to attention, though it has been used in problematic ways such as academic research, personal reputation, or policing. The faulty policies of social media websites like Facebook are potentially putting users at risk and are outweighing the benefits, which in turn can negatively impact their social perceptions.
To begin with, various websites are violating our privacy by selling our data to third party companies. Today accumulation of personal information is escalating using technology tools all over the world without permission of an individual. Precisely, social networking sites such as Facebook collects information actively while websites such as Google passively. Facebook allows strangers to view anyone’s profile and systematically eliminates privacy for those who choos...
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
Social Networks are tools that let us communicate with friends and family, share our lives with them, learn about theirs, and sometimes even to establish new relationships. Social Networks sites are being broadly used by youth and adults all over the world, the former being, the main target market of the largest Social Network of the world, Facebook. Social media should have stricter rules on privacy because information can be shared with others, having contacts can effect someone personally, and hacking can be a problem.
As we all know, the social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, has become more and more popular. People could create their profile and share their blogs, photos or videos to their friend on the social networking sites. They think it would be their privacy since they share only to the people they know. However, they were totally wrong. In the article “Privacy and Social Networking Cites”, the author states that if people share something on the social networking cites, it will be shared to everyone, even though he or she just want it to be shared by a group of people. The article also refer to terms of Facebook, which states that Facebook will try their best to protect the information on the site from view by unauthorized people, but they cannot guarantee it. (Timm, Dianne M, Duven, Carolyn J, 2009) Although you share the information to your friends, it might be viewed by others, which mean that your privacy has been
An increasingly popular way of sharing information with family and friends, social networking sites like Facebook , Twitter, and Tumblr provide users with a way to keep in touch with people close to them. Users can share photographs and stories about their daily lives with just a mouse click. This highly convenient method of sharing information naturally attracts the eye of companies looking to advertise their products to potential customers. Furthermore, the information is also of interest to our governments, police, and criminals. Social networking sites contain vast amounts of personal information that, if extracted, can compromise the security and privacy of people who use these sites.
Facebook : Every single day we read the news ,and think that Facebook might be antiprivacy. It is also observed that people often think that social networking sites offer complicated privacy settings. The CEO...
Social media is everywhere and very popular all over the world. Social media is used on computers, tablets, smartphones, etc and along with the use of social media there are privacy issues that come along with it. Social media is part of everyone’s life and is hard to give up. Even though we might not think there is isn’t anything wrong with it, there is which comes down to our privacy. Our privacy is being invaded when using these popular networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, etc. Social media is here to communicate with others and build relationships not invade our privacy.
Facebook had originally advocated for privacy, claiming that they wanted as much information as possible private, in order for people to share more information (Kirkpatrick, 2009). However, in the past year or so, Facebook has changed its privacy policies, making information more public, and making it impossible to change some of that into more private information. However Mark Zuckerberg has made a U-turn regarding privacy, claiming that people now want to share more information and that society is changing and these new policies are a reflection of that change (Kirkpatrick, 2010). However given that Facebook has so many users, and it has such an impact on our society, they are more than mere bystanders, they are not reflecting a social change but rather imposing it (Kirkpatrick , 2009). This privacy change affects many since their information is now available to anyone who wants it as opposed to just a small circle of trusted friends, this leaves a window open for people like stalkers (Singel, 2009) who can find out all about a person, or to theft, since a lot of a person’s personal information can be accessed, personalized scams would be easier to pull off.
Facebook collects a lot of information, which the users share, and the way it has used and protected this information has come under scrutiny quite a few times in the past. The purpose of this report was to find the ways in which the information is shared on the website and the control the user has over how the information is shared. Most of the data in this report was collected from Facebook’s official data use policy.
In a world of Facebook and LinkedIn and YouTube and OKCupid and Google and IPhones and Ipads and Kindles and all the other hundreds of sites and devices designed to garner personal information, data-mine your information, to better advertise, sell, inform, and connect you with the people or the places that you want to experience. The wonderful world of the Internet helps connect millions of people with millions of other people in milliseconds all day, every day. All the swapping and sharing of information create a world of transparency, deception, fraud, and identity confusion. Avatars, aliases, and profiles are the ways most people advertise their goods and services and themselves. With this consideration an erosion of privacy has changed our culture in ways that some predicted years ago and some that are new to our era. This paper will explore some primary regarding how technology causes the changes in privacy and what are the effects brought on by these changes.
In the previous decade, the development of social networking and online innovation has changed the meaning of privacy and has changed societies around the globe. For instance, protection began to lose its unique meaning of "the state or state of being free from being watched or bothered by other individuals" since technological advancements. Privacy could now be defined as: the state or state of being free from being watched or irritated by other individuals face-to-face. In the past decade, one of the greatest innovations ever to be created has been the development of social networking. Even with all the advantages of social networking such as reconnecting with friends and loved ones and
Social medias have become a big part of our society now, they are being used in all aspects of our life. We are connected twenty-four hours a day, at work, school, home, shopping etc. There is a necessity, a need to be connected to these social media’s, to feel like you are a part of society. With these growing numbers in being connected to social media’s on the web, there comes a growing desire for privacy and safety. In this paper I will discuss and analyze the social media’s themselves, the dangers that arise from them, and how all these correlate to privacy.