Privacy In Social Media

I got quite interesting feedback from the people I interviewed and the survey was also able to shed some light on some previously held opinions about privacy on the internet. The Answers I got varied with age. The older respondents were more concerned about their privacy on the internet compared to the younger people. I believe this was due to the fact that the older people may have had more important information gathered over the years than the young individuals. Another reason would be previous experiences with their privacy being breached and now were more cautious. Despite the answers being different there was a sense of privacy being a very significant factor in one’s activities online. In regards to gender there was little variance in the respondents answers. Both genders were similarly concerned about their privacy. Most of the people interviewed were very aware of the stakes at hand if their privacy was infringed …show more content…
However, there were two respondents that reported their bank accounts were tampered with. I believe social media privacy violations were such myriad because they tend to hold so much information about individuals. In today’s social media profiles one can be able to retrieve peoples addresses, the schools they attended, places they visited, family members the list is endless. In light of this, we now see why social media is a hot spot for privacy infringement. Everything about a person has been reduced to only a push of a button. For those who have fallen victim of infringement their social media accounts have been destroyed and their lives ruined. One of the respondents said that their pictures were used to catfish, meaning a person used their identity on social media and pretended to be them in order to gain something. A trend that has now been growing rampant over the years, due to numerous posting of picture by individuals and the capability of photo