While not always seen, overall, teenagers get far less privacy than adults do. Between schools checking through the belongings of their students without solid evidence to allow it, or parents monitoring the activity of their children online, teenagers today are subject to much of their privacy being taken away. It is true that this can sometimes be helpful in busting drug dealers or keeping teenagers from getting involved with bad habits online. However, it can also have an adverse effect, ruining the relationship between a parent and his or her child, or other relationships throughout the rest of the teenager’s life. Teenagers should be allowed more privacy, if not as much as adults have, as it will keep them less fearful, as well as help to keep their interpersonal relationships strong and their emotions in a good state.
The expansion of the Internet infrastructure across the world, has brought an increased audience. Which has provided expanded markets for businesses and exploited new opportunities. There are virtually countless social sites and media used by individuals to access and share experiences , content, insights, and perspectives. Parents today tend to believe they should spy on their kids online activity. I argue parents should respect the privacy of a child's social life and his/her internet activity.
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...
According to socialfish.org, the Facebook Privacy Policy is wanting users to automatically public display personal information such as user’s names, location, gender, and photographs, as well as social media activity such as “liked” pages and friends lists. Also, on Facebook when you message people on their messaging application people are allowed to see your location just by the click of the message that was sent. Even if you turn off the location setting on Facebook, the application still allows you to see it so you have to turn off the location button every time you send a message to someone if you do not want them to see your location is one example of our privacy being invaded. According to USA Today, research behavioral scientists shows that Facebook is a big issue with privacy and our every move is being watched from how parents interact with their kids to what we post or share. “Indeed, a University of Vienna study published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, found almost half of Facebook users who left the site said it was over privacy concerns”. Popular social media that we use daily such as Facebook, Google+, Wikipedia, and Yahoo have all changed their privacy policies recently. According to Forbes, “Facebook recently announced changes to its default privacy settings on sharing with friends, it was revealed also that it could access smartphone mics to capture and analyze the songs, TV shows and other things users
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Consequently, upcoming problems surrounding online privacy will continue to rise and become harder to stop, the faster new technologies and social media persist and adapt. It is imperative that social media outlets, such as Facebook, battling privacy problems do not only focus on protecting vulnerable young people against the common mistreatment of personal information. “Protection of teens is a parental responsibility. But the education of teens and their parents to the growing privacy problem will require an educational effort that involves schools, social networking organizations, and government agencies” (Barnes, 2006).
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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.
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In the essay “Say Everything” written by Emily Nussbaum, the author presents the argument that young people in this generation do not have a sense of privacy and tend to post whatever they like on the internet. She presents 3 different ideas of what happens when young adults are on the internet.
Social networking sites leave opportunities for vulnerability, however, I don’t believe many youths are an easy target. Using ethos, pathos and logos individuals can create their own reality to relate to the internet world who they think are and how they wish to be seen. In mediated publics such as Facebook and Instagram, the user has complete control of his or her profile and is the only one who can allow content about his/herself to be shared. It is my personal belief that as technology has evolved many people have taken to fabricating some truths here and there and omitting details to give an ideal representation of who they are without incriminating themselves or leaving themselves vulnerable for mistreatment. The fantasy of what is or could be is more desirable than reality. In the past few years, privacy settings have been adapted to cover the growing technological advances to keep users safe from online predators.
al 2013, p. 1) with 40% of teen media users stating that they are somewhat concerned about third party accessibility to their personal information, (Madden et. al 2013, p. 10) with only 9% reporting that they are very concerned. (Madden et. al 2013, p. 10) These statistics significantly differ from the attitudes of parents, with 81% of parents reporting that they are somewhat concerned and 46% reporting that they are very concerned. (Madden et. al 2013, p. 10) These attitudes towards privacy can be seen as a combination of ignorance and arrogance on the side of teens, where these social media platform users hold a perceived notion that the information they provide will not be misused or given out freely to interested parties although it might not be the case. (Trepte, Reinecke & Walter 2011, p. 3) Furthermore, the difference in these statistics show the differing levels of privacy concerns between parents and teens, making it difficult to pin point whether attitudes to privacy are a social norm as it depends on which point of view it is being assessed
Many people use social networks everyday as a way to share their personal lives with their friends or followers. Many people are culprits of oversharing personal information on social networks. Oversharing is when one reveals an unacceptable amount of information which may or may not be inappropriate. Also what most seem to fail to remember is that whatever is posted online, stays online forever. The main social networks that are victims of oversharing include Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. “Communities are outraged by the personal information posted by young people online and colleges keep track of student activities on and off campus. The posting of personal information by teens and students has consequences” (Barnes 1). While oversharing