Ethical Issues Of Social Media

In today’s society social media hold the most critics and controversies over the idea of narcissism and society's reliance and dependence upon social media and smartphones.

People should be prosecuted over things they say over social media. People say hurtful things over social media and personally they should be prosecuted and taken to court for things they say. Children don’t want to be labeled as a “ rat” or “snitch” in school so that is part of the reason why no one really tells a teacher about what is going on with them. Threats should not be taken lightly.

In the article Ethics and social media (2014, Vol 27(4)), written by Dr. Constance Milton, the author discusses how to choose the proper media applications for nurses since they are bonded by obligations and liabilities toward human kind dignity.

This essay will discuss the way social networking sites affect the nature and limits of privacy. There are various social networking websites e.g. Facebook, MySpace, Youtube, Twitter, Google Buzz, and many others with various privacy settings and in the past several years billions of people have joined these social networking sites.

The United States is a culture of sharing. People share their personal lives on almost every aspects with social media such as Facebook and Twitter. The idea of free online services have attract people’s natural instinct to indulge themselves into these free services. What they do not know is how these “free-services” ask in return. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat have revolutionized how people connect with one another and the way people retrieve resources, which also allows massive private information accessible to organizations. In the article called “Twitter’s Lucrative Data Mining Business” published in The Wall Street Journal, Elizabeth Dwoskin talks about Twitter’s disclosure that its company has “$47.5 million came from selling off its data to a fast-growing group of companies that analyze the data for insights into news events and trends” (Dwoskin). Although the internet has opened doors to many business opportunities and innovations, it has invaded social media users’ private information and often exposes them to unauthorized organizations such Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat for monetary gain. Legal standing has make it possible for these companies to appropriately set user’s policies regarding the disclosure of user’s privacy, but people often disregard on how companies are distributing their information that may expose their privacy to unauthorized organizations.

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

Social media is defined by internet-based websites and networks that create a virtual platform for online users to share ideas and information, build social communities, and create a space for self-expression. As of 2018, an estimated amount of 2.6 billion people in the entire population actively have social networking accounts. As the digital age becomes more prevalent, and thus expanding, social media enterprises, such as Facebook, are devising ways and software that enhance marketing. These methods, however, have recently triggered criticism for collecting information that users may not want to be meddled by unknown parties. Seeing how this infringes the right to privacy, it can only be resolved by refraining from social media.

In 2014, a physician at Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was terminated after commenting on a picture posted on FaceBook by a nurse (Thoms, 2014). Although the picture was taken outside of the hospital, the physician did make comment regarding the former patient. Other employees who also made comments about the picture, were also terminated. The hospitals rational was it was a HIPPA violation to make comments on social media even when the patient is not under their care. The case illustrates the extent that HIPAA violations and compliance can impact health care providers. This is an example of how the use of social media can create moral and ethical dilemmas. With the increased use of technology and our dependence on the digital communications there are greater threats for patient privacy violations. Even the most innocent posts on social media can be misinterpreted and be considered a violation of privacy.

In the article Ethics and social media (2014, Vol 27(4)), written by Dr. Constance Milton, talked about how to control the use of social media applications in nursing discipline. There are some commitment and liability when using these social media application especially in nursing career.

The greatest challenge to the legal foundations of the Internet is the continual assault on individual privacy, brought about by continually loosening standards as to how personal data is used, stored and tracked online. Foremost among these threats is the relentless use of personal data from websites, social networks and other online forums where people are coaxed into giving up as much data as possible to support advertising strategy-based business models (Christiansen, 2011). This is the greatest possible threat to individual liberties as it strikes at the core of a person's dignity online and their ability to trust websites they actively engage with and rely on for their work or social lives(Dhillon, Moores, 2001). Facebook is among the most egregious of violators, with a history of being hypocritical in their approach to personal information privacy while building a business model worth many billions of dollars (Chai, Bagchi-Sen, Morrell, Rao, Upadhyaya, 2009).

The above mentioned example is one of many questioning the credibility of the social networking sites. The fact that anyone can go to a person’s profile and save his/her picture to be used as desired is uncomfortable and disturbing. Another method for the disruption of ethical boundaries in regards to these networking channels is their utilization to conduct predatory marketing. The level of discomfort is high when a product/service is offered to a user on the basis of the needs assessment done by the exploitation of personal information. Some employers are also the culprits due to the fact that they make hiring decisions on the basis of prospective employee’s social network activities. These and many other scenarios lead problem solvers to come up with alternatives and implement productive decisions.

Since the inception of social media with SixDegrees in 1997 (Hendricks), people have been able to post and share their daily lives for the whole world to see. This wasn’t a real big problem for the most part until the more prominent social media sites like Facebook came to be. Ever since then, the companies that use Facebook and other social media sites have often used and abused people’s personal and oftentimes private information for publicity and advertisements. This is a major issue that needs to be stopped somehow, and there’s one possible way to do it.

Social networking services or social networking sites are widespread in all parts of the world. It serves as means of communication and is considered as the most convenient and easiest way of communication. It is convenient in a way that it is better than other means of communication such as telephone. In social networking sites, there is a video call and the one being called and the one calling can see each other. It is easy by the fact

Social media is the immense way in which millennials communicate with their peers in all aspects of life, including their occupations. Being a part of the millennial generation, I am continually being “tagged”, “snapped”, or “followed.” All aspects of my life are somehow shared on one source of social media or another. Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat are among the various types of social media available, but happen to be the three types that I spend the majority of my time. Working on the burn unit as a care partner and now, being a student nurse at Bon Secours puts me in a position where it would be extremely easy to post, tag, or share something that contains confidential patient information. All of the people

Social networking is a way for people to connect and share information with each other online.