Social Media Privacy On Privacy

Social Media Privacy 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. According to recent statistics which can be found in Facebook’s home page, the site has 500 million active users around the globe, who have an average of 130 friends in their contact’s lists. The same

During the years we have seen that security systems on Internet have been improving and becoming more complex; however, we also see constant ‘cyber attacks’ to different web sites with the purpose of stealing information. Such attacks demonstrate that hackers are keeping up with the security improvements enhancing their techniques as well. In the article, “The Impact of Facebook on Our Students,” written by Doug Fodeman director of technology at Brookwood School in Manchester, UK, it can be found that the main reason hackers have to attack social networks, is to steal financial information. The author says “Once phished, scammers use various applications to suck out personal information from a user 's entire network of friends. Scammers try using the phished information, including the login password, to access banks and credit card accounts because they know that most people have one password for all their accounts”(37). Showing that whenever this sort of attack occurs, the user compromises personal information, other accounts and also his friends. Since not all Facebook users are computer Geeks that know when to identify this kind of threats and how to avoid them, and hackers are constantly updating their methods it is hard to find a solution to the problem simply because there is nothing that Facebook can do to solve it