The Pros And Cons Of Social Media

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.

"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.

There is a rising dominance of social media sites that allows users lives to become increasingly transparent. With full information about ones activities available for everyone to see, it blurs the line between personal and impersonal information. Personal information like where you were, and your private life information are now things that everyone feels free to share, and by doing so dismantling the boundaries of personal information.

A few years ago the term social media never existed. People interacted with each other either through face-to-face conversation, telegrams, telephone, handwritten letters, or through emails. With the advent of social media such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat, which are easily accessible from a cell phone, the issue of their negative impact on privacy appeared. This paper aims to focus on how Snapchat has compromised individual privacy for social media subscribers.

Privacy is a topic that has impacted this new generation more so than others, and more than likely will continue to do so. It has been the source to much controversy and issues in the past decade. Additionally, it seems like privacy is only becoming more of a hazard rather than a blessing to users of social media and modalities of communication. Therefore, underscoring this topic and examining its effects, will possibly lead to an understanding of the rise and potentiality of this sensitive subject. Moreover, in some form or another, people have stumbled across this topic and that is why it is crucial that it is addressed, so that people can have an understanding of the problem.

Social networking sites give their users an easy way to share information about themselves. However, many users are quickly finding that the information they intend to share with their friends can all too easily find its way into the hands of the authorities, strangers, the press, and the public at large. For example, job recruiters are looking to these sites as well as performing more traditional background

In the social networking arena, users voluntarily divulge personal information online that, prior to the digital age, would have been considered private and restricted. Without careful and fierce examination of information prior to submitting it online, users unwittingly and certainly unwillingly subject themselves to threat of privacy intrusion.

This paper describes how over time the Internet has changed the meaning of privacy. This paper explores how various social media websites along with the new generation have influenced how much we value our privacy. Although each social media website has its own outlook on human privacy, they all ultimately deem it as the most valued part of the website. The new generation uses Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat, etc. as ways to communicate and share their memories with others, while not understanding the risk it poses. This paper shows how the internet has transformed the meaning of privacy into a matter more serious because the information being “posted” has so much more value than it did in the past. Overall you will see how the feeling of needing privacy has been depleted, but also how the security of privacy has increased.

The United States is a culture of sharing. People share their personal lives on almost every aspects with social media such as Facebook and Twitter. The idea of free online services have attract people’s natural instinct to indulge themselves into these free services. What they do not know is how these “free-services” ask in return. Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat have revolutionized how people connect with one another and the way people retrieve resources, which also allows massive private information accessible to organizations. In the article called “Twitter’s Lucrative Data Mining Business” published in The Wall Street Journal, Elizabeth Dwoskin talks about Twitter’s disclosure that its company has “$47.5 million came from selling off its data to a fast-growing group of companies that analyze the data for insights into news events and trends” (Dwoskin). Although the internet has opened doors to many business opportunities and innovations, it has invaded social media users’ private information and often exposes them to unauthorized organizations such Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat for monetary gain. Legal standing has make it possible for these companies to appropriately set user’s policies regarding the disclosure of user’s privacy, but people often disregard on how companies are distributing their information that may expose their privacy to unauthorized organizations.

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

Social media is a digital communication process that connects people in the creation and exchange of dialogue, content and communities. Nowadays, social media have been playing more and more important roles in public communication. However, some issues have aroused accompanying the popularity of social media, for example, information overload and easy access to obscenity, but the most important issue about social media is the sacrifice of personal privacy. Everything you do on social media is public by default, and you have to change the personal settings to make it private. What is more serious, once information gets revealed to public, it will soon spread to the whole

Researchers Jennings, Blount and Weatherly (2014) correlate social media to an online pandora’s box”. “Bountiful riches” have been discovered from the use of social media but like pandora’s box, “a firestorm of unforeseen consequences” can come to light (Jennings et al, 2014, p. 96). As thousands can access a plethora of valuable information from social media, on the other hand, stalkers can collect a magnitude of personal data and whereabouts of people at any given moment. Companies and their employers are responsible for what their employees make public on social media. With that, corporations need to emphasize the need to protect the leakage of the firm’s privacy (Khan et al, 2014, p. 612). Most Social media applications will not grant an individual access to their website without supplying one’s identity by generating a profile. Privacy becomes a big issue with social media because one’s pictures, comments, videos, location, and profile are no longer private once they are published online. Lurkers can simply google one’s name and easily find pictures along with identifiable information. Government employees are warned against posting personally identifiable information, such as birthdays, address, profession, location and place of birth due to threats against America (Khan et al, 2014, p. 613). Likewise, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) prohibits doctors and nurses from disclosing any

Do you ever feel like you are being watched or followed, feels a little creepy right? That is exactly what is happening every time you log into one of the many social media sites offered via the world wide web. Some users say that if you aren’t doing anything wrong, what does it matter if our every move is being tracked and recorded. It matters because our privacy is being violated, having privacy is one of our basic human rights. When we sign up on social media we knowingly give up that right as Kent Anderson, author of “People are Willing to Trade Less Privacy for Access to Social Media”, writes, “ Social networks are based on sharing information, so anyone using such a network is automatically accepting

Over the past ten years, the world has become obsessed with posting about anything and everything they are doing. More recently, the younger generation has become in love with posting their location. Whenever a teenager arrives at a cool new place or their usual spot, their location shows up on every possible form of social network. They use anything from Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and some other application programs which specialize in letting other people know their location. Where is the privacy? There is no privacy, which leaves today’s

Though users should learn to be more careful with what they share on the internet, social media websites should form privacy settings to better protect their users and attempt to keep them better informed. It is among the social media sites where the issue stands. There is a lack of communication and education from