My
Space or Your space:
Social media and your privacy
By
Paige Stoessel
Social media. This is a term that almost everyone knows
of. There are many social media devices
and technologies that are present within our society. They include Facebook,
Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, MySpace, and Google +. There are many sketchy things that go into
having one of these accounts. This can
lead to many negative things that can come out of having one of these accounts
and we all know this. However, we all
are guilty of having an account with at least one of these social media
technologies.
Facebook is one of the many social media technologies on
the web. When it first launched it was
booming. Now the excitement of it has dwindled down to almost nothing. However when it was on the high of its
career, they have implemented many things that would help their company but
lower the security of their users. In
the process of trying to make more money they have allowed many business
accesses to your personal information in exchange for money. Many people do not know that this is going on
which can be considered wrong and un-lawful.
This is a complete invasion of
privacy but because they make the agreements so long and not to the point,
everyone just scrolls through and do not read what this entitles the runners of
Facebook to do with our information.
Google + is also a very notable social media
technology. This is also one of the many
sights that invade on your privacy. The thing with Google+ is that if you have
the email you have an account even if you did not want one. This has caused much controversy over if this
is a lawful tactic on how to get more people to have an account. Because they did not tell the people with the
emails that this is going on they actually got into a lot of trouble. They open
you up to many people on the internet that are looking to follow random people
to get followers and for all we know they can be some kind of creep that want
to kill you. They have led to the
potential killing of someone. All of
these types of medias have done this and they all say that there is no way for
someone to access your information and that there is privacy but a good hacker or
someone who knows a little about computers can most likely get your information
without difficulty. We all know the
possibilities however we all have at least one of these technologies so I guess
it’s our own stupidity.
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