Essay On Social Media And Identity Management

There is a high level of vulnerability with sharing personal information about oneself online (Debatin 2009:3). Potential stalkers in a physical or digital environment can use the information (Debatin 2009:3). The digital environment has made it easier for people to infringe on personal information. The most common happenings reported on Facebook include changing users’ pictures, creating fake accounts, making embarrassing information public, creating vulnerability (Debatin 2009:3). Concerns over issues related to Facebook’s privacy policy include divulging user information to government agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (Debatin 2009:3).

The privacy of human being has drastically changed with the advent of internet. On a scale of 1 to 10, the privacy of an internet user is a -1 or may be less. Social Networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace etc are mainly responsible for this privacy leakage. This short paper is dedicated to review the change of privacy policy by Facebook on December 2009 and its impact on public privacy and security.

Acquisti and Gross point out that the unprecedented growth of online social networks including but not limited to Facebook and MySpace has brought with itself serious security and privacy concerns. In this particular study, the authors found out that privacy issues do not discourage individuals from being members of the network. Further, the authors also found out that even individuals who happen to be rather concerned about their privacy reveal a great deal of their personal information after joining the network. This study is highly relevant to my research as it clearly demonstrates that individuals do not take privacy issues seriously on joining Facebook. As the authors point out, the study in this case secured its support from the "CMU Berkman Faculty Development Fund, CMU CyLab and the Data Privacy Laboratory." Thus in addition to being relevant, the study can also be regarded credible.

This paper helps determine the effectiveness of the current social media for four different car brands. This paper looks at the various social media accounts of the Honda Civic, Ford Focus, Hyundai Elantra, and the Nissan Altima. The different forms of social media that will be analyzed in this paper are Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, and Youtube. This paper takes the time to analyze the various posts these companies use to try and advertise their vehicles. Then using what was analyzed from the data collection period, recommendations were made on how to make better use of these social media accounts.

It is crazy to think of all the social networking sites that people have been utilizing in the last several years to be able to adopt a personality and “show off” their life, or a life that they wish others see them living. “Status Update”, Marwick discusses in his introduction that “to boost social status, young professionals adopt self-consciously constructed personas and market themselves, like brands or celebrities, to an audience or fan base”. With continuous technological innovations that allow individuals to be connected to each other, there seems to be a growing need for people to brand themselves in a way that allows them to be seen in a more positive manner.

This essay will discuss the way social networking sites affect the nature and limits of privacy. There are various social networking websites e.g. Facebook, MySpace, Youtube, Twitter, Google Buzz, and many others with various privacy settings and in the past several years billions of people have joined these social networking sites.

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.

Digital natives are going to be young people, multitaskers, and quick learners that have technological skills. Digital Natives are making this new generation very different from the prior generations. These changes are forcing sociologist, parents, students, teachers, and lawmakers to change the way they do things. In Born Digital, Jon Palfrey and Urs Gasser describe how in an emerging digital world, it is easy to create online identities. With these online identities, we control different stages with a front stage or back stage. Online, digital natives are leaving digital cues or claims of self that sometimes couldn’t be farther from reality. Since the emergence of social media there is a blur between what is private or what is public. What we may feel is a private space could be viewed under a large and unknown amount of people. The Digital Natives are finding themselves not doing a good job managing their web information about them or their “digital dossier”, that is, the sum total of personally identifiable information, much of which can turn up in browsers searches. The line between reality and online presence is becoming so thin that digital natives are by no means a generation but we see that they are in fact a population.

Social media has changed the way society communicates and shares information becoming a routine activity integrated in our daily lives, yet the issue of privacy managing remains. “Privacy” in perception to online activities involves the right or consent to personal privacy in spite of this it is still a concern that cannot be dismissed in this digital era. Unfortunately, many web users do not sufficiently comprehend how much of their data is maintained, as a result, they may be more open with what they share. Adam Levin’s article Privacy Is Dead: What You Still Can Do to Protect Yourself published in The Huffington Post speaks to the growing millennial generation and alludes them as “easily-hackable”.

The trade- off between social privacy with content sharing and sociability have pose challenges to designers and users. Increase in social confidence on privacy implies more protection and trust from users, hence the likelihood of sharing increases. In an effort to address the role of SNSs in affecting people’s privacy and offer insights to SNS designers, the authors approach a novel methodology, which an in-depth interviewing session with 16 youth and 40 adults were conducted to investigate their awareness of online surveillance and privacy. This new approach of sampling two demographics is contributive to analyse users’ behaviour on SNSs because different age groups varies in their online activity engagement. Aligning with Boyd and Raynes-Goldie's (2010) that teenagers do not disregard privacy, this study has shown that the youth take heed of privacy settings more frequently than the adults counterpart despite the general assumption that teenagers are indifferent to privacy issues and violations. The author draws on the result of usability test to demonstrate that teenagers are more savvy in SNSs usage. Hence, they find it a lot easier to navigate privacy settings than adults. The technological advantages of teenagers resonate with Castells’s (2011) principle of network-making power in a way because

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

In a famous Pixar movie, the Incredibles, Elastigirl quoted, “Your identity is your most valuable possession. Protect it.” Society along with our generation has transformed over the course of time. We create society and in return society creates us. There are a substantial amount of influences and molding characteristics that compose our identity, so how has identity instilled in my life? As for me, social media has had an ever-growing impact of identification on my mental, physical, and social spheres daily.

Have you ever told your parents you don’t fit in at school? For some kids it’s because they don’t have technology to stay connected with their friends. People say tech destroys face to face relationships, but in a study done by the University of Washington, assistant professor Katie Davis, found that friends use technology to stay more connected through frequent check ins and texts. In a study done by Pew Research Group they found that 57% of all teens have made a new friend online, giving that teen a sense of belonging. The University of Washington also found that youth’s that are shy and quite found it easier to talk about personal things or feelings online. As a result I believe that technology isn’t destroying friendships, but making

In relation to privacy, social networking and many other genres of the internet are one of the main and easiest places to track down people, many naïve victims, posts up their details on their profile, making it easy to enable stalkers or strangers to have advantage of virtually meeting you. This problem has caused many families to live in fear, not knowing how vulnerable they are to the outside world, where

Living in the 21st century requires one to stay current with latest technological advancements. Ever since the development of social networking sites, people are now able to create a carefully-crafted identity for themselves. This has led psychologists to question how well these online personalities match the person in front of the computer. The innovative branch of media psychology looks into how social networking portrays individuals and initiates human interactions within a society.