Persuasive Essay On Internet Privacy

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Internet Privacy Essay
Recently there has been a lot of discussion about privacy on the internet and if kids should be able to use it. A great number of people think that you deserve more privacy on things like social media. Others think that we have enough privacy you just have to be smart about what you do on the internet. When you search or click on something it gets tracked by a cookie, cookies determine what ads you get on websites. When using social media it is very easy for someone to look at your account and see anything and everything you have ever shared about yourself. Some people think that it is very easy to keep your social media private, all you need to do is be smart about it.
Cookies are the things that remember what you search and click on while using the internet. Let's say you were looking on a website for new clothes, now thirty minutes later you are on a website playing games. You …show more content…

Well it is possible, a survey from the NCSA said that 60% of “young people” have created a social media account without their parents knowing. If they are so preoccupied with hiding social media from their parents then they are probably doing a pretty good job of hiding it from all the random people as well. Many social media platforms have ways that you make your account more privacy, for instance Facebook has a settings that make your posts only viewable by people you have added as friends, Instagram has similar settings where if someone tries to come to follow your page you have to approve them. Irina Raicu said “ in a recent survey 92% of people said they changed some privacy settings in their account/s, 42% limited the number of people on their friends lists, and 31% had installed blockers that stopped people from tracking them on the internet”. It's clear that there is ways to protect yourself, the only hard part is finding

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