Essay On Someone Is Always Watching

Pete Cashmore, a CEO at mashables, once said that privacy ended when you started a social media account. Social media shows anyone anything. Your name, birthday, what you look like, where you are, and even what you are doing. The government watches what you do on social media, and sees what you do in your life. They want to find out if you are doing something wrong, to protect us, but at what point do we have to tell them it is an invasion of privacy?

"We collect the content and other information you provide when you use our Services, including when you sign up for an account, create or share, and message or communicate with others” (Hachman). Each day people live with a false security that they are protected and maintain a sense of privacy. Citizens misplace their trust in social media and technology, and divulge their personal information in ignorance of the repercussions that may arise. Users say the advances in technology and social media will not affect their privacy; however, it is proven that these advances can be a harbinger of both danger and discontent.

We don't have privacy on any social media we get on because before everything there is a hacker or a genus that can get our information. In the story, “ T thought police” by André Dao , “ To put it another way, it may be that we need private spaces in which we can flourish and lead full, dignified lives.” We can't always be

In his essay, “Get Over It,” Jeff Jarvis argues that “ . . . our supposed privacy crisis, . . . could result in our missing many of the opportunities the net affords to connect with each other and with information” (430). On the other hand, Andrew Keen, in “Sharing is a Trap,” states that “. . . this increasingly ubiquitous social network . . . is invading the 'sacred precincts' of private and domestic life” (426). With all the posting, tweeting, and blogging privet lives have become open to the public. SMS, emails and even calls are being traced, recorded and reviewed every day, you are not safe on the internet. Keen’s argument regarding social media is valid in regard to the transformative nature of the Internet, privacy and “publicness.”

Social media like Facebook and Twitter have become more and more popular in recent times. Their popularity is creating new opportunities for data collection performed by the state and private companies like Google and Facebook. The point of this exercise is to outline a theoretical framework for defining monitoring social media in the context of today's society and understand its broader societal implications.

America is an individualized society, where personal privacy is valued. Current exposure is increasing, however, due to technological factors. Those factors include social networking, YouTube, Twitter, and other forms of mass expression. The effects of this increased exposure can range from embarrassment to risks to personal safety on one hand to greater exposure to other cultures and a better understanding of the lives of others.

This is an era of massive violations of privacy rights and individual liberties due to the new technologies of surveillance, data mining, electronic monitoring, biometric chips, spamming, hacking, phishing, and security breaches at major private and public institutions. These new technologies make the protection of privacy rights far more difficult than in the pre-electronic past. Given the nature of the Internet, thousands or even millions of people can view these Twitter and Facebook postings in a very short time, and they can quickly go 'viral' and spread globally almost overnight.

Everybody in the world who owns an electronic device such as a ""smartphone"" or ""smart-tablet"" is given the option of downloading social media or having internet access. If the opportunity of having these abilities are given at hand, then why monitor them ? Privacy is taken very seriously by many American citizens, and monitoring what

Today social media is a popular thing among modern America. We have things like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc. As fun and popular as these things may be, they are another way that the government watches us and invades even more of our privacy. It was reported by the Huffington Post that the government was trying to ‘Exploit our Facebook to detect fraud, fake marriage.’ Not only that but it was also reported by the outsidethebeltway.com that what you post on social media like Facebook can be used against you as evidence in court. Where is our freedom going? They might as well take all things posted on social media and vaporize people, like they did in 1984. What people share on social media must consider that they might as well be, “…sharing directly with the judge and jury…” (Mataconis) No matter what we do it seems the government can find it out or they somehow already know. The government is basically like Big Brother Who is Always Watching You. This theme of our “Big Brother” watching and controlling us like in 1984 is a reoccurring theme in today’s world, it’s not getting anywhere to stopping but it seems to increasing.

Jeff Jarvis, explains in the article “Get Over It” (430), how our privacy is being altered by technology and what he thinks about it. He continues with people in the US started thinking about the legal right to privacy in the 1890, at the time when the Kodak camera was introduced and then gives several more examples of technology people have feared over the years. Jarvis fears that government regulations could restricts are ability to connect online and wonders “if Google can be told not to take pictures of public places, will citizens be censored next?” (430). He conveys that there are many people that use social media and what they use to connect with each other. Through the internet we can, gather information, make friends, and spread ideas

Social Media is a current way in which people are using to interact with one another daily. Since the launch of various Social Networking Sites (SNS) its been a huge attraction in a new way to share information with others and correspond with interests of your choice in many different forms. Although social media sites allow users to share information with friends and other sites on the internet, many people are unaware of how their privacy is getting out. Now that the expansion of global connection through these social media networking sites are so highly present in todays society, giving us easy access to information, the lack of one's privacy is being diminished. Everyday peoples privacy rights are

As citizens of America, we are all entitled to our rights of privacy. When something threatens this guaranteed privacy, we tend to take extra precautions to prohibit prolonged violations. Over the past couple of years, technology has made a tremendous leap with new inventions and different kinds of devices to better your everyday life. But do these electronics help the government to invade your privacy more? There have been many claims and arguments of people accusing our government of listening in on our phone calls, reading our texts, and even using Amazon’s “Alexa”, a virtual assistant used in Amazon Echo speakers, to record and then send our personal conversations to the government. Many people feel that their rights have been violated with social medias, such as Facebook. Some examples are use of their automatic face-detection and spam ads popping up on profiles about interests one was just speaking about. Phones today now have biometric security on lock screens and also on apps within the phone. Many

Of course, behavioral tracking needs to be limited by government since social media gets so popularity and the internet gets more and more dangerous to the whole society, otherwise, the customers will complain about their privacy had been offense due to some personal attack.

Governmental observation of what people post online is very controversial; many believe it could prevent or stop cyberbullying. Despite this idea, many believe it also infringes on Americans’ right to freedom of speech. Monitoring social media should be a choice for parents to make, not forced upon everyone by the government, whether it’s local, state, or federal. Communist countries monitor their citizens’ internet even to the extent of blocking websites they do not want to be viewed. Monitoring internet content would make America one step closer to taking away it’s citizens’ freedoms.

Social media is more and more used to make presumptions and decisions about people. If I get to know someone I will go to Google and try to find out what can be found instead of waiting how all info itself will arouse by time passing. It’s debatable if it is ethical to spy about people in social networks because behavioral patterns witnessed there belong more to private sphere. But if person is willingly giving away his rights to privacy?  Also we seldom think of privacy issues when applying for “bonus” card to get 5% discount. It seems that sometimes people need to be protected against themselves and until there are no new and relevant social norms aroused, this is were policymakers should puzzle and offer solutions. Of course the balance is a key issue.