According to Erving Goffman, “When one individual enters the presence of others, he will want to discover the facts of the situation. […]To uncover fully the factual nature of the situation, it would be necessary for the individual to know all the relevant social data about the others.“ (Goffman, 7) Today, thanks to Facebook and social networking, these data can easily end in our hands.
Perhaps, people may already know our name and, if we are part of the same community, they could probably know what we do like. By looking at the last Facebook reports, the users of the popular social network became 1.15 billion in March 2013. After China and India, they represent the third largest country in the world. (The Facebook Blog) According to the inventor of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, the social platform is built by simple ideas which permits the world to be more open and connected. However, do we know how much access we permit to our personal information and thoughts? We should admit that since we joined Facebook we were never worried too much about privacy. But now, after many researches and articles came out people are beginning to look with greater interest on this issue. Moreover, privacy is the concept of being free from others’ intrusions, and it has changed relevantly through the advent of social networking. This paper, will in particular analyze how Facebook has influenced individuals and the contemporary society that has being exposed to an enormous number of information through the last years.
Firstly, Facebook is a social tool that permits people to understand the continuously “updated version” of the world around them and let them feel to be part of it. People subscribe to the social network because they need to stay in tou...
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Therefore, Facebook is powered by a curiosity that feeds one’s desire to know about their friends and therefore perform surveillance activities. We are all encouraged to be “Facebook stalkers” and to expose ourselves, getting rid of our privacy and making room for visibility. Social media is more than keeping touch with friends and family, it is about curiosity, surveillance and control. We are constantly being monitored and monitoring others. Social media has made us willingly become visible to anyone who wants to observe, putting our privacy at stake, as we also reinforce this behaviour by doing the same to others. It has become a perfect monitoring system, as everyone is aware of what everyone else is doing with their lives in a very entertaining and addictive manner.
Facebook helps people to share their information to others through posting and photon on his or her Facebook wall. Dr. Marry Marrow syntheses her findings about Facebook and wrote, “Social media; staying connected.” She mentions that Facebook can bring
Social networking is a concept that has been around for a long time than the Internet. People have always been able to work together in a team. Social networking has come to users using the internet to communicate in various different ways. This focuses on creating a ground for social networking and collaboration. Social networking is about everyone in the society where it has become self-sustaining and created further growth leading to human social interaction. A social networking site has allowed users to post their profiles and create personal details for exchanging information with other users (Weaver and Morrison, 2008) [1]. In early stages, social networks have become the most frequently used tools. “Facebook is currently the largest online social network. Its business model is based on the analysis of user data to display customized advertisements. However, the data collection induces possible privacy concerns which oppose perceived benefits. Information privacy concerns are important aspects for the intention not to use Facebook but it is outweighed by perceived usefulness”. (Becker and Pousttchi 2012, pg.187) [2].
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When social media platforms first surfaced, nobody anticipated that it would turn into the global phenomenon it is today. In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg introduced Facebook with the intention of creating a platform to socially interact and communicate. As of 2017, there are 1.86 billion active users on facebook and 2/3 of people online, have social media accounts … these are all people searching for the same thing. Validation. I like to consider it as our generation’s virtual playground -- a catalyst in today's society.
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The first aspect being addressed is the problem with social network sites exposing information. Social networking has created an environment where it is nearly a duty to expose oneself. Profiles on these social websites are updated everyday with personal information such as locations, status, and future plans. Anyone can search another’s name and find information about their history, pictures, and activity. With the help of social networking sites...
In this day and age, many individuals simply cannot go without some sort of socialization. Specifically speaking, most participate in online social networking sites. The most popular and used one is commonly known as Facebook. Facebook was created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. By 2007, Facebook had over 21 million users, adding up to 1.6 billion page views every single day. The typical user spends over twenty minutes per day on Facebook and two thirds of the users log in every day at least once. It is not questionable as to why many people have a Facebook account. Facebook is generally efficient, easy for socialization, and not difficult to manage. Most organizations are affiliated with Facebook, as “almost 22,000 organizations had Facebook directories,” as of November 2006. A year after that in 2007, Facebook was named the seventh most popular website (Ellison 1). However, with anything well known, many oppose to using Facebook and hold criticism against the popular network. There are many flaws in the website and the relationships it starts online. Facebook is risking dangerous activities, ignoring privacy laws, and demeaning healthy socialization.
The worldwide web is a fabulous spot to research data for any topic that comes into mind. The internet is a powerful invention that allows people to communicate, shop online, have entertainment, and explore the world. The net is being used for many valuable purposes, but the service of the internet raises a number of ethical issues such as privacy in social networking sites. Today’s revolution in social communication involves security and confidentiality of data. Privacy is a valuable tool that humans need in order to protect themselves from privacy violations. Personal data can be utilized to influence online users’ reputation in social networking sites, e.g., Facebook. However, personal information can be used to bring harm to online users.
Social Networking sites play an essential role in today’s culture as they provide people with the ability to interact, blog, share pictures and videos, flirt, and date without having to move an inch. People pour their minds and hearts into the world of cyber communication; it is an easier way for them to clear their heads without having a face-to-face confrontation. Undoubtedly, this is advantageous to certain people. It helps establish connections with people, friends and family from any corner of the world, but one cannot ignore the extensive privacy breach that occurs in the universe of online social media.
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Nowadays, we are living in the “ technology world”, digital’s century, science and technology are being devolopped like a rain-storm, people try their best effect to serve for human’s infiniti demand. Internet in general and social network in particular are exceedingly funtional tools. Indeed, with over 1.3 billion active users in June,2014 ( Wikipedia), there is no suprise that Facebook has been becoming a leading social network in the world, “Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected” – CEO of Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg (google). Facebook truthly brought many useful; however, it is still “ a double-edged sword”.