Social Networking: Privacy Issues

Privacy? Is everything really keep private? In todays day of age it is very unlikely that your stuff is private on the internet. People are used to signing into facebook with no worries of weird people looking at their profile, but now anyone can see your profile unless people have it private. “This is the quickest and easiest way to check and see if your page is “protected.” Whatever you see here is what is visible to anyone and everyone on the Internet.” (Masterson).

How to increase business with Social Media Marketing Did you know more than 92% of small business owners strongly agree to the importance of social media marketing for business? Or that social media marketing has a 100% higher lead-to-close rate than outbound marketing? According to Marketing Guru Neil Patel- “Social media is the fastest growing trend in the history of the world.” What is social media marketing? As per Wikipedia “Social media marketing is the process of gaining website traffic or attention through social media sites.” However, Neil Patel again defines it appropriately Regardless of the industry, you serve, investing in social media marketing will help your organization grow. Not only in terms of dollar-dollar bills

When creating profiles these websites want all of your personal information, the only thing you don’t enter into your registration is your credit card number. It seems a little crazy that they are all so desperate to have and to hold your personal information on file, but I am sure they have reasoning behind it. They do offer the option for you to make your profile private, but there are ways to still viewing a private profile. In the article, “Are you Worried About Your Personal Information? – Privacy Issues in Social Networking Websites”, author Lui Fan speaks of how operators of social networking websites upload peoples information to the server or to the cloud.

Sharing personal information on Facebook is very danger as third parties are seeking information. Third parties collect the data from Facebook, which could easily lead to cybercrime. Users are not confident on sharing information and contents on Facebook. Facebook is required to spread the privacy and security awareness to the world. It should conduct the privacy programs to protect its users from being victim of cybercrime.

This is evident for we should keep different passwords for different online sites. 3. Is it always possible to delete a picture or post, permanently, after you’ve put it online? No, it is not possible for anyone to permanently delete a picture or post after you have put it online because it is then used for various other websites as advertisements or method of malw... ... middle of paper ... ... had no password, what information would you be most worried about? If I lost a mobile device without a password, and someone found it, then I would be worried about all the personal information in my phone including my text messages.

(Endangering their right to privacy 2010) states “Communications and personal information that are posted online are usually accessible to a vast number of people. Yet when personal data exist online, they may be searched, reproduced and mined by advertisers, merchants, service providers or even stalkers. Many users know what may happen to their information, while at the same time they act as though their data is private or intimate. They expect their privacy will not be infringed while they willingly share personal information with the world via social network sites, blogs, and in online communities.” Unfortunately, people should expect that social media is not private and should not share anything they consider private on these shared networks, as they are exactly that, shared. When I started this research paper, I argued that there was a difference between Privacy and Security when it comes to the internet.

In 2010, the security team of Facebook has begun to expand its efforts to reduce risks to users’ privacy, and it was successful but still leaves some privacy concerns behind. Privacy and security is very important to have, especially if you are going to be on the Internet and sharing your information with others. Facebook lets the user have a choice to arrange your own privacy settings based on who can access your profile, posts, news feed, and messages. Facebook requires a username and profile picture to be accessible to everyone. Earlier, this was open to everyone and now due to updates on privacy settings, you can have the option of who can search you on Facebook.

Little does Facebook users know that, “Social networking sites activate the subconscious cues” makes Facebook users think they are “interacting within bounded, closed, private spaces” (803). Users are fooled thinking that their information is kept safe and that only those they allow can see it, but this is not the case. Facebook seems to give options about privacy settings to the extent that we can control who can see ... ... middle of paper ... ...asures that are helpful to stay aware of the consequences; For instance, “limit the people who are able to see the users’ profiles, select the proper privacy settings on Facebook, and avoid accepting stranger’s requests”. The most important point is that society needs to become aware that there is a problem with Internet safety and the best solution is to be aware of the risks so that the proper steps are taken. Works Cited Turkle, Sherry.

According to information found on Facebook’s website, “[M]illions of people use Facebook every day to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.”  However, if the man behind all of this was a hacker himself, what might this say about the security of the website itself? Just how safe is this site and others? The truth of the matter is social networking sites are only as safe as a user makes them. Unfortunately, many of the free privacy settings available for users on the internet are not the default. To protect themselves, users must be sure to censor what they post online and activate the appropriate privacy settings to secure their information.

People need to understand the dangers of freely placing large amounts of personal information on the internet through web sites such as Facebook, which basically gives out most of a person’s information on one site alone. What most people do not understand is that, once information is placed on the web it will virtually exist forever; there will always be a way that the government will be able to track this information. People need to understand the ways that they can better protect their personal information. Several vulnerabilities come with using online sites, understanding that fact and learning how to protect pe... ... middle of paper ... ...f ever necessary. Today many people are not aware of the online dangers that exist, people placing out numerous amounts of personal information to various sites, needs to become an area of interest, so that corrections to this mindset can be enforced.