Social Media Has Cause The Security Problem

The use of social media by colleges and employers may increase as time goes on. Although some may say people have a right to personal business, it is not personal if it is posted to the public. To avoid people from looking at one’s social media, keep the page

Fleming tells us how the colleges and universities can look into your social networking sites and use it against you, also how it’s impossible for colleges and universities to keep up with all of their students. She reminds us that the schools are not to release any of the students’ information. How can colleges and universities keep this information private when the students themselves are putting their personal information out there on these social sites?

Higher education law attorney Dana L. Fleming voices her controversial opinion in favor of institutionalized involvement in social network protection in her article “Youthful Indiscretions: Should Colleges Protect Social Network Users from Themselves and Others?” (Fleming). Posted in the New England Journal of Higher Education, winter of 2008 issue, Fleming poses the question of responsibility in monitoring students’ online social networking activities. With a growing population of students registering on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, she introduces the concern of safety by saying, “like lawmakers, college administrators have not yet determined how to handle the unique issues posed by the public display of their students’

Some people may wonder what effect social media has on people worldwide. Many people are using social media daily and because of that, they might not know the effects that can be lurking behind a screen and causing harm to their mental health. Social media has many negative effects on mental health. Some people could think that mental health and social media has no relation, when it does. It is a fast-growing issue with many “cause and effect” reasons behind it. Each cause needs to be recognized along with the effect it has on the people who use social media.

As the world progresses and technology becomes better and wider spread. The amount of information created increases exponentially. Also as our technology increases and gets better, information that the technology collects becomes more accessible. People can pretty much access information from anywhere at any time about anything, most information is a quick google search away. This is a great thing but as everything moves to a more technological world, our personal information become readily accessible and more people have access to it. Today social networking and education have dramatically benefitted from this increase in information and accessibility. But this can also be a very bad thing, there are also people who take advantage of this accessibility to information in a negative way, with public information being as accessible as it is it makes it a lot easier for people to steal others information. For example identity thieves can steal people’s information they find online and gain access to their identity, because a lot of people’s information is online and accessible to everyone.

Students who are planning to enroll into a college should clean up their social media before in enrolling and to make this process easier high schools should have days when juniors and seniors log into their social media and start deleting posts that would influence a college admission officer to deny them into the college. In conclusion, colleges should check social media during the application process and to most likely get accepted students in high school should clean up their social

Social media is a way people can share their lives with each other by just the click of a button. This allows people to access an unlimited amount of information in seconds. People can post everything from family vacation photos to their political views at any time, and this can reveal more about a person than they realize. On most social media accounts there are privacy settings which allows a person to control who see the content of their account. By sharing information that everyone can see, people are making their private lives are more public. Universities have begun using social media as a way to keep track of their current students and their prospective students in and outside of school by monitoring what they post. Even if students

Like technology, our species has adapted to fit modern times. Through these adaptations, we have begun to communicate through our newly developed technology by means of social media. In today’s society, we are surrounded by sites such as Facebook, Twitter, E-Mail, and various other websites that can often times consume our lives. While social media has plenty of advantages, it also has disadvantages that often times get ignored. As Internet users, it is important to examine these disadvantages and make sure we understand the negative sides to social media.

Identity theft is one of the growing crimes in the United States due to the fact people do not know how to properly protect themselves against it. Criminals use different methods to acquire the information necessary to steal someone’s identity. Some of the techniques used to commit identity theft are; stealing wallets, acquiring bank information or pilfering through trash to find documents containing PII (FBI, n.d.). Nowadays criminals are able to steal people’s identity using different procedures over the internet without having to compromise their identity. Some of the methods are social engineering, phishing, sending spam messages and malware (OLI, 2013). Criminals use these methods because with the use of technology, identity theft could be accomplished anonymously and without much effort. Also because people lower their guard about securing their personally identifiable information when using the internet, especially when using social networks, they become easy targets to

The concern for privacy in college in America has been around far longer than one may think. The Family Educational Rights Act of 1974, which, according to the U.S. Department of Education states, “is a Federal law that protects the privacy of student education records.” This was the first major step towards awareness of student privacy. Student’s have come to realize that their personal information is imperative to protect and to keep private because this information can affect them later in their lives. In recent years, there has been a major push for educating students in middle school and in early high school to know how to responsibly handle their personal information on websites and especially social media. Consequently, with more of the youth in our society flocking to the social media sites such as Facebook, and Instagram, some colleges have begun to search through their applicant's social media posts and photos to get a clearer picture of who the student really is. The influx of students and youth to social media sites and the process of colleges searching through that information accordingly brings forth the idea whether there should be a limit on the access colleges have regarding their applicant's personal life and information. Though students do control what they put on their social media pages, colleges should have a limit to the amount of access they have on their applicants and students personal life because it is an intrusion of the applicant's privacy.

“As the use of social media increases and becomes an integral part of nearly every student’s life, problems arise when student expression on these sites turns into threats against the school or other students, implicating both student safety and the speaker’s right to free speech” (Hughes 208). There’s no denying that social media has become a part of most people’s daily life. We have sites like Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, etc. These websites, or apps, allow us to express ourselves in any way possible, whether it’s supporting families who lost a member in a mass shooting, trying to impeach the latest president, or donating to those who are victims of natural disasters. It’s not always that social

My generation has grown up with technology in our hands since we were toddlers. We are dependent on technology, from Iphones, Laptops,tablets, ipods, even watches that keep us connected to a never ending supply of distant connection. Social media is the source of many problems in our society. One of the problems is the lack of communication in a relationship. One misconception about social media is that it has the ability to strengthen a relationship because you have another avenue of communication when in fact it is detrimental, due to lack of intimate interaction between two people. Social media not only takes away face to face interactions, but it leads to trust issues, cheating and a lack of confrontation.

Social media was not a threat to 21st century American democracy and would never have been until we allowed it to become a threat. People have turned everyday social cites into hacker central and created a political standoff table. Social media used to be just websites, websites that allow any of your basic tech and/or not so tech-savy individuals to share anything to the world around them that they want. People were in complete awe and excitement over this new world that they didn’t think of all the consequences. Terrorists can see directly into the personal lives of the American people, fake news is everywhere, and sharing private messages weren’t as private as they thought and whatever you deleted could always be uncovered again in the future.

The face of this century is wrapped around social media. Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook are the three most commonly used of social media websites. Mainly to share personal information or perhaps even view what one person is doing by simply uploading a video. There have been many scenarios and debates on whether social media is consuming our daily lives in a negative or positive way. Although the three of these apps are very popular, Twitter has been in the lead with their users by sharing over 500 million tweets per day. Even though those statistics may sound cool, Twitter has also been known to be the main cause of cyberbullying, relationship problems, and teen depression. Is it really that bad?

The term “social media” simply refers to the websites or applications that can either be created or used and a medium of social networking. It has become one of the basic need of today’s generation. It is supposed to be the most useful tool in life, but it has been a major distraction for students. It has become one of the biggest social issue today and a controversial topic. Some society consider it as a boon whereas there are many cultures which believe, it is the biggest curse to young generation.