Privacy concerns with social networking services

How many Facebook friends do you have, and how many of those friends have you spoken to in the past week, month, or even year? Are there any people that you follow on Instagram whom you’ve never introduced yourself to? The answers may come as a surprise. The use of social media makes it effortless to connect with friends and family. However, it also allows us to to catch a glimpse the lives of those we’re never met. Depending on how much information is shared on one’s profile, it can allow a person to determine enough about them to consider them a friend. Conversely, those people who have never met you have access to all of your information that you allow “friends” on Facebook to see. This is an alarming discovery, especially considering that the concept of “catfishing” (creating a fake profile online and pretending to be someone

IT 210 - Business Systems Analysis and Design Introduction The privacy of human being has drastically changed with the advent of internet. On a scale of 1 to 10, the privacy of an internet user is a -1 or may be less. Social Networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace etc are mainly

Social Media and identity management-benefits and risk Currently, people are living in a virtual world that is dominated by social media; the influence of emergences of social media platform, such as Facebook, YouTube, has far beyond the imagination of people（Pennsylvania, 2011）.There are an increasing number of people who are willing to use social media to manage their identity, which offers a large amount of opportunities for those audiences who want to standing out from the crowd.(Matthieu; Serge et al, 2013) But because of information overload, to some extend, social media are probably making it harder for them to differentiate from the counterpart .In view of the fact, how to manager personal identity has been view as a vital

Introduction Companies going digital have a variety of issues to contend with. These include but they are not limited to security, privacy and copyright/patent issues. This text concerns itself with one of the most serious challenges such companies face i.e. privacy issues. In seeking to address the issue of privacy comprehensively, this text will largely limit itself to Facebook.

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.

Introduction Social medias have become a big part of our society now, they are being used in all aspects of our life. We are connected twenty-four hours a day, at work, school, home, shopping etc. There is a necessity, a need to be connected to these social media’s, to feel like you are a part of society. With these growing numbers in being connected to social media’s on the web, there comes a growing desire for privacy and safety. In this paper I will discuss and analyze the social media’s themselves, the dangers that arise from them, and how all these correlate to privacy.

Facebook has to be the worst social media out there when it comes to privacy. They always seem to know where you’re at whether it’s through geotagging, gps, or the new maps feature it has a pinpoint on where you may be at. It seems that everything you do through Facebook is connected in some way to something else. For example if you decide

In the social networking arena, users voluntarily divulge personal information online that, prior to the digital age, would have been considered private and restricted. Without careful and fierce examination of information prior to submitting it online, users unwittingly and certainly unwillingly subject themselves to threat of privacy intrusion.

(Dictionary.com) But on the Internet that is the sole reason most people use it. In 2016, 68% of all U.S adults used Facebook, while 28% used Instagram, 26% used Pinterest, 25% used LinkedIn, and 21% used Twitter. (Pew Internet, 2016) But most recently there has been a new definition created solely for “Internet” privacy. It states that Internet privacy is the ability of individuals to control the flow of information and have reasonable access to data generated during a browsing session. (Reputation X, 2016) This is why many social media websites, such as Facebook, give the option to turn privacy settings and protect their profile by not allowing anonymous users to see their profile. So unknowingly we, the people, are also protecting our own privacy by simply not befriending random

Facebook is a well know social networking site that has taken all over the world with over 500 million people using the site. Social networking sites such as Facebook share information about the user over the Internet, where it can be freely accessed by anyone. This is where issues of privacy to the individual arise. As of July 2010 Facebook has more than 500 million active users, Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. As of December last year, Facebook called its 500 million users to review their privacy settings at the launch of its new user control tools which allow the user to control their information easily depending on

I have noticed how solitude and privacy influenced me early on when I started doing clinical hours. I have become aware of how they make me think twice before I enter a patient’s room and the questions I ask or don’t ask. I hesitate to pry too deep into one’s personal life even if I was overly curious. I desire them to tell me what they want on their own time and way. I often think that if a patient was in a room by themselves that they more often than not they want to be by themselves especially if the door is closed. I noticed that I usually ask if they would like me to close the door behind me as I leave so that they may have the privacy they desire. I have this heightened sense that their room is their space and unfortunately their temporary

Privacy Unknown Over time we have come to live in an era where technology is rapidly growing. We use the internet for many different things in our day to day life. Whether it is research, work, or even entertainment, how safe is all this information that we are revealing? Internet users are finding themselves running into privacy issues, with updates or unknown factors know to the common user. Social networks have been around for years now, and from the looks of it, it will only continue to expand. In 2004 Internet entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg and other his partners have created what is now one of the widespread of social networking sites, Facebook. Social media has become such an influence on society, it's unique characteristics give the public a real inside glimpse of an individual. Facebook, as I like to call it “the root to all evil” is a huge invader of privacy and I’ll tell you why. This popular social network has come to cause millions of users to have personal conflicts directly related to social media. Social networking sites, such as Facebook, indeed threaten our privacy. A few ways our privacy is violated is by storing personal information, routine updates, and tacking users web use.

Social media allows people publish and share text, photos and videos, and it is generally contains profile with personal information. When children 's news posted on social media, it can be seen to a worldwide audience if the parents forget to check the privacy setting. It sometimes brings troubles due to the kid 's limited capacity of dealing with the consequences of the disclosure about their images, such as commercial exploitation and identity theft (ALRC Report 108, 2008, pp.2221-2236).

The Dangers and Benefits of Social Networking The Do 's and Dont 's: Social Networking Dangers * Adults use the sites * Innapropriate language, nudity, alcohol use, sexually provocative images, etc. * Predators use it to gather information * No real method of

Nahida Sultana Dr. Rachel C. Henderson ENG 1101 18 November 2015 Are Social Networking Sites Good for Our Society? We are living in the 21st century and technology began to change very promptly. After the Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s, scientists and engineers started to develop the networks between those supercomputers, and later they