An Essay Social Networking –a Paradox- Success or Failure Introduction ---Teenagers will freely give up personal information to join social networks on the Internet. Afterwards, they are surprised when their parents read their journals. Communities are outraged by the personal information posted by young people online and colleges keep track of student activities on and off campus. The posting of personal information by teens and students has consequences. I will discuss the uproar over privacy issues in social networks by describing a privacy paradox. Social networking is successful because of its Viral Nature-They key to social networks quickly moving up in size is their viral nature. Because people who get on those need to expand …show more content…
A user's worth is based on his/her number of connection, not on the quality of those connections. This tends to drive a lot of people to try to connect to as many people as they can. Mary Hodder likens this effort to collecting baseball cards, an apt metaphor since the number of connections you have is no guarantee of the value of those connections. However, few of the social networking sites are doing anything to gate the amount of connection. One of the nice thing on a small world is that it actually penalizes people for sending out invitations that were declined. I believe this is a good thing as it makes people rethink whether they want to attempt a connection or not.The other question is the reward in social networking: what do I get for sharing my contacts? We know what the companies get but it's sometimes fuzzier to see what extra value one gets from a social network. Some have done a good job at showing a sense of mission, whether it is job-related and expertise-related connectivity like connections LinkedIn or dating like… well, this is where it gets trickier.Not granular enough-Context is generally missing from most social networks. For example, I may know Bob in a social context as a friend but I have no idea of how good an employee he is. Or I may know Joe in a work context but not realize that he's not dating material for my friends. The lack of granularity as to the types of relationships is another current failure of most social networking
The second discrepancy with Fleming’s article is the role that schools, especially universities, should play in protecting students’ privacy online. The fact that Fleming lists multiple examples of minors being hurt by poor social networking decisions has nothing to do with the topic suggested in her title “Youthful Indiscretions: Should Colleges Protect Social Network Users from Themselves and Others?” This is a red herring fallacy that appeals to the reader’s emotions yet has nothing to do with the writer’s original topic. Protecting minors online is a separate issue in itself in which parents and likely schools should be involved. On the contrary, for college students, the FERPA policies under which Fleming says a university employee must adhere to are meant to protect
Privacy: The issue of privacy stemmed from the exponentially increasing Internet use by teens. Particularly, when Facebook, the worlds most popular social media tool, abolished its exclusive availability to solely university students and become available to the general public, there was a dramatic increase in internet usage among younger web-users. With this increased internet usage came
When it comes to teens using the Internet and social media applications, there are many opinions people have in regards to security, privacy, and addiction for these luxuries. It seems that every day, I see news articles, blogs, and other posts about teens and the way they use the Internet. Mainly, the concern that parents need to have in order to protect their children from being personally identified or having an addiction to apps like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. When reading this book, I found that this whole concept of teens using this type of network goes deeper than people may think.
Most of today 's Internet users are active in so many different social networks just to list a few of the most common ones are Facebook Myspace and twitter and there are so many more that the list could go on. These sites specialize in connecting people, either by letting them send messages or pictures or by enabling them to play online games together and comment on each other 's walls or photos. These social networks have enormous popularity because many people are engaging in this kind of online activity on social networks, they have enormous benefits of either Facebook 's strategy of keeping in touch with old friends or Twitter 's idea of seeing what current friends are up to with a certain success, and more and more people are signing
Ever notice how people of all ages are now inclined to use the internet? The internet itself is a great place, filled with entertainment and a plethora of easily accessible information. However, with the many technological advancements of the internet, it has gradually diminished people’s privacy. Scholar Stacey B. Steinberg, in “Sharenting: Children’s Privacy In The Age of Social Media”, says that cautions should be taken when posting online to uphold privacy .Similarly, scholar Agnieszka McPeak in “Social Data Discovery and Proportional Privacy” suggests that any data or activity done in the cyberworld can be easily obtained or traced. Although research on privacy issues in regards of the internet has been done in the discipline of computer
However, Abram’s call for individual’s responsibility of privacy by limiting access to certain information is impossible due to the very nature of social media. In Alice E Marwick and danah boyd’s 2014 article, Networked Privacy: How Teenagers Negotiate Context in Social Media, they argue that because social media is, as previously discussed by Werbin and Fuchs, a networked environment that thrives on sharing user-generated data (Marwick & boyd 1054). Furthermore, Marwick and boyd explain this argument through a paraphrased statement from new media studies scholar Jenny Sunden (2003), which states, “to exist online, people must type themselves into being” (Marwick & boyd 1054). In other words, each “like”, post, and comment all contribute to our existence online; to use social media we must put ourselves and our information online. Moreover, rather than focusing on Abram’s individual responsibility model – which Marwick & boyd call “access-control list” –, Marwick & boyd suggest that their “networked privacy” model – where privacy becomes the responsibility of each member of the social media network – fits our social media platforms better (1064-1065). In other words, through their study of how American teenagers manage privacy online, Marwick & boyd conclude that it is incredibly difficult to maintain privacy on social media, because one shared photo to a few friends on Facebook means the responsibility to keep this information private transfers to these friends (1064). To
Privacy is an interesting topic to understand in the age of new media. It seems everyone wants privacy, yet we still share our life stories with the world on social media platforms. Throughout this research paper I will discuss what privacy is, what we want to keep private, and the purpose of privacy, laws that protect our privacy and how privacy affects us on the Internet. Furthermore, I will look at the case of Ashley Madison, an online dating site for those already married and how personal information was leaked about its users.
There was a lot of talk on how Social Networking as a model is doomed to fail but just looking at the way they are doing is enough to know that although it may not be paying off right now, it soon will. Sites like LinkedIn, Ryze, Yahoo 360, MySpace, etc seem to be attracting customers silently. Soon, they have multiple options on what to do with the huge customer
Privacy has become a prominent topic in academic and social debates. People are gradually sharing more and more personal information as their dependence on the Internet and online services. After all, privacy is the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. In combination, these qualities may lead to a safer and prosperous standard of living. The same notion can be applied to social media particularly Facebook. In general, the understanding of privacy is different in every age group, from teenagers (13-17), young adults (18-24), and adults (25 and older) each feel differently about the outcome of posting personal information online.
A social networking website is made popular by a technologically inclined culture which populates the website and has a need to be social online; although not everyone wants to jump on this platform of communication. As the amount of people using a particular social networking website increases, so too will the website's popularity and it’s value in the marketplace resulting in attracting a greater share of the population. Consequently utilizing a domino effect technique. The people who populate the site will become popular at greater levels as they increase their friend base due to the current way Facebook and now Google+ links friends that are a degree or two away. Facebook constantly reminds a user of “People You May Know” even if you don't, but maybe someone in your current circle or association of current friends do. The whole concept of a social networking website is based on popularity so it is no mystery as to why people who use it get the idea to do a “online self-presentation,”(Mehdizadeh 357). A presentation that can be totally honest only including their close friends and family(people who know them best) or one that can be narcissistic in nature where a
Perhaps most importantly, members create a listing of friends which allows them to communicate online and gives mutual access to more private content (such as photos).
* What makes social network sites unique is not that they allow individuals to meet strangers, but rather that they enable users to articulate and make visible their social networks. This can result in connections between individuals that would not otherwise be made, but that is often not the goal, and these meetings are frequently between "latent ties" (Haythornthwaite, 2005) who share some offline connection. On many of the large SNSs, participants are not necessarily "networking" or looking to meet new people; instead, they are primarily communicating with people who are already a part of their extended social network. To emphasize this articulated social network as a critical organizing feature of these sites, we label them "social network sites."
An enthusiastic, hard working and competent healthcare professional who possess the required level of nursing experience needed to deliver high quality, customer focused, and clinically effective patient care in a modern well equipped clinical setting. Key qualities include being able to continually assessing a patient’s needs and wishes, coping with frequent interruptions in high pressure situations, and being able to respond quickly to emergencies. Having a real passion for nursing, with a strong desire to provide the highest level of care & service to patients.
Modern society is full of many influences that trigger one’s identity online. Social networks have played a large roll in guiding users to maintain, create or enhance their social presence both online and in real time. There are many different social networks that enable users to communicate and connect based on similarities, differences and many other factors. The social network theory explains these connections as ties, and individual users as nodes. The more ties, or relationships, online that you have the more social capital you can accumulate. Social capital can come in the form of likes, shares, posts, photos, and anything that you can gain from social media applications. Social connection websites, multimedia sharing websites and professional social networks assist in the construction of users identities through social media sites like Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn. With these identities individuals are able to successfully interact within such social networks in ways in which have changed social statuses, impacted the overall health of individuals and created new opportunities for users.
Due to my interest in information technology and the quickly-growing social networking world on the internet, a combined topic would both be interesting for me to research, but also a relevant investigation in today’s world, with a connection to the beginning of the topic, being MySpace (2003). One of the biggest debates about social networking is privacy, so I decided to delve into the topic myself and created a research question of, “To what extent does social networking, beginning with MySpace (2003), affect the privacy of a United States citizen?”