Social Media and Privacy.
Social Media refers to the interaction between people, using a variety of web based technologies to create an interactive platform where individuals and groups engage with each other in productive and sometimes not-so-productive activities. The advent of the internet age has brought about a sea change in relations and the way we conduct business. Today the physical boundaries between nations and people have been blurred with passage of information being just a click away. The rapid popularization and the accessibility of the internet in recent years has led to a proliferation of various social media sites which have further reduced the distance between people and nations. These social media sites with their interactive …show more content…
We post pictures, a way by which we plan to increase our self-worth in the eyes of others, show off basically, post and repost innane stuff, write a few words or sentences about the prevailing social situation, expect around 50 likes on our post, basically Facebook helps pander to our inflated ego boosting our self-worth in our own eyes, giving us an idea as to how popular we are. Before Facebook there was Orkut, where you sent messages to each other on a common platform which was visible to all your friends. But Facebook went a step further- here your posts and pictures was not only restricted to your friend circle but extended further to your friends-of-friends and their friends-of-friends. Thus you got a larger and ever increasing audience to strut your …show more content…
Facebook has been guilty of passing on the personal information of its users to third parties, also holding on to information about a user even after his account becomes deactivated. Users feel registering personal information is a very harmless thing to do. But, they hardly realize that their innocuous act could land them in serious trouble someday. Cases of identity theft are becoming very common nowadays, where a criminally minded person steals your personal information purposefully for his gain. It could range from someone taking on your identity to more insidious means of stealing your important credit card information, your passport details or your social security number. There are various ways in which it could be done - hacking into computer networks through innocuous seeming software, to obtain all kind of personal information, accessing social sites from where personal information and even pictures are easily obtainable. The possibilities are enormous and the results frightening. You could be embroiled in a simple case of mistaken identity to more serious charges relating to terrorism and
Social Media refers to the interaction between people, using a variety of web based technologies to create an interactive platform where individuals and groups engage with each other in productive and sometimes not-so-productive activities. The advent of the internet age has brought about a sea change in relations and the way we conduct business. Today the physical boundaries between nations and people have been blurred with passage of information being just a click away. The rapid popularization and the accessibility of the internet in recent years has led to a proliferation of various social media sites which have further reduced the distance between people and nations. These social media sites with their interactive …show more content…
We post pictures, a way by which we plan to increase our self-worth in the eyes of others, show off basically, post and repost innane stuff, write a few words or sentences about the prevailing social situation, expect around 50 likes on our post, basically Facebook helps pander to our inflated ego boosting our self-worth in our own eyes, giving us an idea as to how popular we are. Before Facebook there was Orkut, where you sent messages to each other on a common platform which was visible to all your friends. But Facebook went a step further- here your posts and pictures was not only restricted to your friend circle but extended further to your friends-of-friends and their friends-of-friends. Thus you got a larger and ever increasing audience to strut your …show more content…
Facebook has been guilty of passing on the personal information of its users to third parties, also holding on to information about a user even after his account becomes deactivated. Users feel registering personal information is a very harmless thing to do. But, they hardly realize that their innocuous act could land them in serious trouble someday. Cases of identity theft are becoming very common nowadays, where a criminally minded person steals your personal information purposefully for his gain. It could range from someone taking on your identity to more insidious means of stealing your important credit card information, your passport details or your social security number. There are various ways in which it could be done - hacking into computer networks through innocuous seeming software, to obtain all kind of personal information, accessing social sites from where personal information and even pictures are easily obtainable. The possibilities are enormous and the results frightening. You could be embroiled in a simple case of mistaken identity to more serious charges relating to terrorism and