The Cons Of Using Facebook When Talking About The Disadvantage

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).

It is shown, that one of the most prominent sources that prove a danger toward privacy, is through social media, specifically Facebook. This site alone

Facebook is an example of how Social Media has influenced the lives of many Americans in today’s generation. Facebook has a negative and positive experience in many ways. Many people meet and become “friends” just by the click of a button. It has encouraged several users all over the country to interact and be social. It can also be a way of finding old friends of yours just by typing in their name in the search bar. Several users pretend being someone else by creating a fake page because they are hiding behind their insecurities. As a generation, e tend to care less about privacy because we update our status on where we are, or what we are doing. This is scary at times because it is easy for anyone to access your information at any time. Facebook,

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

Despite Facebook keep saying they always protect users privacy. However, few functions they have changed during the past few years make people hard to believe Facebook can actually capable of protect their privacy. It become quite obvious that compare to its own business profit, privacy is not such a big deal for Facebook to make some change which brings more fame and benefit to itself.

Today, many people from around the globe use social networking websites such as Facebook. Most people use Facebook to socialize, network, and connect with their friends and family. However, personal information such as name, address, phone number, location, and photos are shown on users’ profiles on a daily basis on Facebook. It’s pretty clear that Facebook helps people connect with each other regardless of physical distance between them; however, there are many legal, ethical, and security concerns that put users’ privacy in jeopardy. Facebook makes it easy

The Internet, as a form of mass communication, has transformed the social experience users once were free to revel in. Facebook helps the user connect and share content with others. However, what it actually does is share the user’s generated content and private information to a massive array of advertisers.

Social networking sites are increasingly becoming one of the internet most utilized activities. However, how often does one think that their Facebook site is hazardous to their identity. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, an estimated 11.7 million Americans were victims of identity theft in 2010 (U.S. Dept. of Justice). Identity theft is defined as a crime where someone illegally acquires and utilizes another person’s vital information to deceive for personal gain. That same year, the Federal Trade Commission reported that identity theft crimes cost businesses and individuals an estimated $53 billion (Federal Trade Commission). Most Americans are familiar with identity theft but aren’t well-informed about the influence it has on

It is shown that one of the most prominent sources, that prove a danger toward privacy, is through social media, specifically Facebook. This site alone, has over 1.4 billion users, thus a large percentage of the population has

The negative part of the privacy issue in the social-networking area is defined by the fact that many other unknown people out of the millions of users of Facebook are going to be able to see your profile details and information. Those who can and have malevolent ideas in their minds are going to be able to sell your information for a profit (Tynan, 2010), to either businesses who take advantage of it or to use it in criminal and unlawful ways, therefore endangering the security and reputation. “With so much personal information being shared on the Web, people are becoming more aware of how their online activities can build and ruin reputations” (Gonsalves, 2010) of the users of the social networking website. “If your image is on the Web, chances are your visual anonymity has been

Their attention is diverted from continually checking updates on Facebook, thereby they do not to do well on exams. Jolie, in her article on Mashable, assesses that children who make themselves busy with studying and using Facebook at the same time have 20% lower grades than those who are focused on their studies. Facebook not only causes children to have poor grades, but also it limits their ability to be creative and critical thinkers. Having not been able to identify whether they are harmful or not, children accept other people’s ideas on Facebook. They won’t develop their own ideas or create new things as they are too busy wasting their time appreciating others’ work and ideas. As Rosen et al. point out, in the book Are Social Networking Sites Harmful, a study by the Benesse Institute of Education in Japan have found that children who use Facebook and other social media are most likely to be late for school and class, and more than one-third of eight graders have confirmed that their use of Facebook affects their daily activities (54). Not being able to manage time properly could cause a huge problem in children’s future. Tomas Edison once said, “Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can’t afford to lose.” Children, if they are to become what they wish to be, wise time management could be the key. However, being addicted to Facebook, they waste most of their time and fail to be productive. They fail to achieve

The first portion of my paper, identified concluded with the following after close examination of Facebook’s privacy policy. After close consideration, I have come to the conclusion that there is no real protection of one’s information when using their services. Everything posted is essentially property of Facebook, and in return for your posts, you get to use their services. Even though they claim you own the information, they profit off your information. It seems that Facebooks’ only interests are that of its own. Unless the information is beneficial to that of their services, whatever it is that you post, and can be harmful to the services of Facebook is then shifted back to your responsibility. It is an extremely subtle and coercive way to influence people to use their service, yet when the implications fall onto them, it is now your information; it is no longer theirs when subjected to scrutiny. Personally, I believe Facebook should simply minimize the words that they use for their policy, and tell users exactly as following: “You do not have any privacy rights when you use our services. You have given us all right to your information. We now own your information, and have the rights to profit from your information, even though technically it is your information, and, unless or until it your information becomes under scrutiny to any legal proceedings, or authoritative source— we will give you back all rights to your information--we are then no longer responsible”.

In this paper, I will synthesize 3 articles that I got from Indonesia, Thailand and Turkey. 3 of them are talking about Facebook used as Blended Learning tools. They have their own purposes but still having the save theme. The respondents in their studies are university students. Students are giving their opinion regarding Blended Learning and Facebook. Turkish IT students preferred direct online environment instead, since they think Facebook is for communication. Indonesian English students think that using Facebook as Blended Learning is as good as face-to-face Blended Learning. Facebook is improving Thailand’s English writing skill, makes Facebook is a suitable tool for Blended Learning.

Identity theft can also be a significant risk of social networking. Personal details like your full name, names of your family members, your phone number, birthday, address, and place of employment can all be used by identity thieves. "Passport-style" profile photos also make it easier for identity thieves to replicate your online presence.

Technology should take the blame for sexting, bullying, identity theft, and many other social issues. However, others may say technology can help conduct schedules, simplify work and home businesses, coordinate activities, communicate with families and much more. Facebook, the  most famous social networking site, comes with its own pros and cons. Facebook though is an enemy to society and single handedly controls the lives of many people.