Social Media And Its Effect On Individual Privacy

In the article “Facebook Is Using You,” Lori Andrews describes the damaging consequences of corporations collecting and selling personal information retrieved from internet users. She explains how this information is often used to create personalized advertisements and while seemingly harmless may have negative implications on internet users’ employability, legal battles or ability to receive credit (552).

So many users of the internet blindly browse and post on these sites without any thought to the online identity they are creating for themselves. Shares, tweets, hashtags, likes, and comments all combine to make up an amalgamation of marketable information. In November of 2016, an average of six thousand tweets were made per second, and ninety-five million Instagram posts were made per day (Sayce; Parker). Facebook “has become the largest database of personal information ever collected,” says Richard, and Facebook takes advantage of this. With almost two billion users, Facebook has no shortage of information to gather (Sparks). They do this mainly for targeted advertising. There is no small profit to be made in this. In 2011 Lori Andrews wrote, “Facebook made $3.2 billion in advertising revenue last year, 85% of it's total revenue.” However, Facebook and other internet corporations also relay data gathered on users to the

"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.

One of the most highly debated issues in the business world is the use of social media profiles as a determining factor in the hiring process. Some people feel that using someone’s social media profile is an invasion of privacy because it uses something from their personal life to determine their professional success. As long as the company follows some basic guidelines I believe there is nothing wrong with them looking into the profiles of their potential employees. It is important to point out that while looking at many of the different ethical ideologies, this practice does not violate the ethical conducts. Teleologists would agree that looking into someones profile will ensure that you are hiring someone who will conduct themselves in a proper manner. Therefore, the means of looking into their personal lives justifies the ends in which you hire a professional with good character. Deontologists would likely agree that as long as the company does not try to find loop holes to see into protected accounts that they are respecting the rights of the individual and therefore are not being unethical. I believe that it is reasonable for a company to use social media profiles as a basis for hiring because everything posted on the internet is public domain, it allows them to get an understanding of who the potential client is, and you want to ensure that you are hiring someone who fits in to your company.

This article focuses on media platforms (Facebook & Google) recent transition from privacy policies to data usage policies. The privacy policies have become obstacles for the economy of social media. The online platforms benefit from encouraging individuals to disclose information publicly by selling clustered profiled information of its users to advertisers and marketers. This source is relevant to the proposed topic because it addresses the excess of information for analysis that are available to multiple

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

This article is especially informative for my topic because it includes facts and statistics that enlighten people on the lack of privacy we have on social media and what problems it may later present in the future. Clemmitt, Marcia. "Social Networking." CQ Researcher 17 Sept. 2010: 749-72. Web. 14 Sept. 2014. Marcia Clemmitt, journalist for CQ Researcher, wrote a lengthy article in CQ Researcher expressing her concern for the exclusive personal information people post on social media and what should be done to help people protect their private information on social networking. In Clemmitt’s article, Cliff Lampe, an assistant professor of telecommunications at Facebook, includes that all of the workers express deep concerns for people’s privacy. Lampe

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

56% of Americans use social media that means 177 million people in the United States use some form of social media. Social media has changed how we all communicate; we can get instant updates to any kind of event sporting, political, even national disasters from a device that can fit in the palm of our hand. Since 2004 Facebook has went from 1 million users to 1.15 billion users, Twitter since 2008 went from 6 million users to 555 million users today (Morrison) Since so many people use social media on a daily basis 93% of marketers use social media for business (Morrison). Many people use these resources as a news source as well as a way to communicate with friends. With so many users someone is bound to use these resources as a way to spread

What do about ninety percent of us have in common? It’s the social networking sites that everyone is a part of these days, whether it’s your twelve year old nephew or your grandmother. Spending hours and hours connecting with your old friends and making new friends over the social networking sites has become a part of everyone’s daily routine. Nonetheless, recently privacy concerns over the social networking sites have taken its peak.

Adolescent privacy is commonly invaded by parents that monitor their children’s media content with the intent to keep them on track. However, are these observations as helpful as the parents consider it? A few articles and studies show that while it may be a cautious step from the parents to keep children safe, the lack of privacy may emit many other emotions and pressures from adolescents that could make the situations worse (Mullen 166 & Padilla-Walker et al. 1153). With the use of case studies and articles, this essay will address the privacy concerns of adolescents and the importance of regulating media content by parental monitoring. The term media should be taken in the context of television, video games, social media, and the internet. I will argue that parental media monitoring can help parents supervise their children, promote positive behaviour, and provide disciplined upbringing while maintaining adolescences independence and aiding them to develop advanced practical skills that will come in use in a media-run world.

It has been said that “If you’re not paying for the product, you become the product” (If using a free products, 2012). Like many other social media companies, this particular idea has been trapped in to Facebook. Facebook has a user base of 1.15 billion monthly active users (Facebook User Base, 2013) and its growing rapidly. There are many rumors and continuous allegations that Facebook is selling user’s information to marketing and advertising firms. And the biggest concern is that this selling or sharing of user’s private data to third parties is happening without user’s proper knowledge or consent (How Facebook sells your personal Info, 2013). All the users of Facebook are bound by the terms and conditions that company has put in their long user policy documents which are hard to read and many new users just agree to it blindly. Regardless of the percentage of truth- the sharing of user’s data without telling user sounds unethical. This has been a serious point of tension lately between social network, online retailers, and those who care about privacy.

Within the social media industry, Facebook quickly rose and surpassed its competitors through a series of innovative strategies. However, Facebook is plagued by privacy concerns in sharing of user personal data. Consequently, Facebook must takes steps to regain and maintain confidence of its stakeholders. Moreover, various strategies must be employed for Facebook to remain a leader in this industry. Accordingly, the following annexures detail Facebook’s strategies for initial growth, it’s privacy challenges, improvements for stakeholder confidence, and strategies for future growth.

Introduction: The topic for this research proposal is violation of personal data in social network. This topic interests me because when I was playing Facebook, I have seen a lot of advertisements that relied on the websites I have accessed. I am curious why they knew what websites I have reached. Moreover, I am keen on information technology, which the major I would like to complete my master 's degree. And I used to work as marketing analyst, where I usually associated with numerous data relating to personal information. Indeed, there are a lot of people who do not realize that they are being tracking and collecting their personal information without any permission. I hope my research will help them being cognizant of their privacy in the era of globalization by the research I will be working on it.

All around the world people are using Social Media to create large online social networks and the sizes of these networks are continuously increasing. It is estimated that by the year 2018, 2.44 billion people will be using social networks. The growing desire and demand of social networks is not just removing our communication