Social Media Identity

Privacy has become a prominent topic in academic and social debate throughout the country. In “Term of Service” by Jacob Silverman, Silverman argues that American citizens today are unaware that their private information is often shown and are no longer safe from the public eye. After all, the integration of social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter has made it impossible to keep anything private. Sharing life events on social media has become the new social norm in the United States. However, this new trend has left the online community with a false sense of security, leaving them venerable against data mining, profiling, and unknown surveillance issues by third party miners across the country. With no end to this threat, how can causal social media users defend themselves without any assistants? The federal government should adopt stronger privacy laws like they have in Europe. They should come up with a digital bill of reforms to help better protect the online community, better inform the public about data mining threats, and companies should get government approval for any data retrieval before they are used for financial gains.

Private information that was previously segregated now becomes easily accessible to employers, colleagues, recruiters, and clients, among other perhaps unintended audiences” (Abril, 2012, para. 4). Yes, most social media sites attain privacy settings but one must always remember there are hiccups in everything on the internet and no guarantees leaks will not occur.

"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.

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.”

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

David Plotz used his own life to persuade the audience that personal privacy is an individual problem where no one cares for one another. In contrast, David Schinke used two different scenarios and people’s quotes in order convince that too much dependency on social media will cause people to invade their own privacy; in other words, people put themselves at risk if they expose what they did or who they are online. Based on the information given from the essays and the stylish appeals they used to share the message, David Plotz’s essay makes a better convincing argument about personal privacy; his message may have stern criticism about people’s remarks on personal privacy, but he concludes a moral message to help people to think about others rather than to live as

Privacy and the conflicts associated with it that citizens face are some of the most controversial topics in the world today. One of the main conflicts that citizens deal with is if the government is spying on us all the time and that if people feel that this it is an invasion of their privacy. Peter Singer evaluates on this topic of the good and bad of privacy in his essay, “Visible Man: Ethics in a World without Secrets”. He explains how technology has changed the way people think about privacy. People know and share all kinds of information about themselves through social media.

In this day and age we have enormous amounts of information at our fingertips. While this accessibility is extremely convenient and useful, people often lose sight of what we forgo. In a media and information filled society, privacy is thrown straight out the window. People feel the need to share everything about themselves, as well as use social media to discover more about others. Through the texts of The Circle, The Truman Show and 1984, it is clearly evident that the increased use of technology and media presence leads to the loss of individual privacy.

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.

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

Individual privacy is viewed as an invaluable commodity, and people are not willing to relinquish it easily. Privacy is not just an instrumental good, it is essential and necessary to achieve important human ends, such as trust and friendship” (Tavani, 2016, pp.122). While being outside of your home, where privacy is expected, you cannot automatically assume that you have full rights to privacy. “According to Moor, an individual has privacy only if they are protected from intrusion, interface, and information access by others” (Tavani, 2016, pp.119). What if intrusion of an individual’s space or access to their information can help prevent the next mass shooting in a workplace, or the failing of a business due to their trade secrets being shared? Is the loss of individual privacy then worth

In most of the deliberation about privacy rights to online content, someone section of people say “Why do you worry about it, if you have got nothing to hide?” Most of the people debating about privacy issues thinks of the cliché, what’s the big deal? If you’re not doing anything embarrassing or illegal, then there’s nothing to hide. For a period of time, people have used this fallacy to deviate the reasons for the need to protect our privacy. But, as Daniel J. Solove expounds in his outstanding article Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’, this argument suffers a serious catastrophe because it is based on the premise that privacy is only about hiding or protecting “bad things”

Adolescence is a time where an individual’s sense of identity starts to emerge, with an unlimited access to the internet adolescence are influenced by the content they are exposed to which in turn affects them in establishing individual identity. Nearly every adolescent growing up in the United States has access to the internet or some form of media and social media. In fact, a study showed that; 93% of adolescents reported belonging to a social media site, 72% access the Internet with a phone, 49% accept friend requests from strangers, 42% send friend requests to strangers, and 55% report meeting people from social media sites in person (Knowles, Lee, O’Riordan, & Lazebnik, 2014). The internet is a vast place and can offer adolescents ample opportunities to experiment with their identities. Six hundred adolescents were given a questioner on internet habits, of the adolescents who used the internet for chat or Instant Messaging, 50 percent indicated that they had engaged in internet-based identity experiments (Valkenburg, Schouten, & Peter, 2005). Furthermore, media use can directly impact an adolescent’s self-esteem, which in turn impacts them in establishing their identity. Many are convinced that high self-esteem produces salutary outcomes and low self-esteem is at the root of personal and social problems and that self-esteem is an outcome of the identity verification process (Stets & Burke, 2014). The central focus of this paper is connecting media

Our research rests upon two pillars. The first one is related to how we conceptualize the privacy concept and the other is the model proposed by Miltgen and Reyrat-Guillard (2014). In our research, we focus on information privacy, which can be categorized as a sub-construct of the general privacy construct (Smith et. al., 2011). More specifically, we define information privacy as factual privacy, which deals with “issues about the access, collection, dissemination and use of personal factual information” within the context of online social network sites (Zhang et. al., 2011).

In today’s technological age, the Internet is widely used all over the world from casual entertainment to formal business. Amongst its use, social networking sites serve its function to facilitate communication across the world, in which users can express their opinions and information without any restriction. While advocates might suggest that social networking sites will improve social interactions as people are armed with the ability to express themselves without censorship, naysayers refute that such personal information publicised on social networking sites have paralysed social interaction and information is released openly without regulations. Facebook, for instance, is a social medium that has an influential ability to dissolve