Friday, September 9, 2011

Social Networking:A purposeful loss of privacy

Social networking has been so powerful and popular now. It helps us to keep in touch with our friends, family and relatives. We can be closer with them by social networking websites than a telephone. Apart form advantages these social networking sites have disadvantages too. The website like Facebook is used by companies to monitor the employee for unsuitable pictures and content. Many people don’t get a job because of their Facebook profile. In addition people are so careless that they don’t even use their privacy settings in order to prevent the identity theft. It has been a dangerous platform for identity theft.

2 comments:

  1. We have a similar project topic. yeah I totally agree that social media helps us keep in touch with friends and family, however, it can be quite dangerous for the identity theft. Some people don't even care and just put their personal information publicly and you never know people could take advantage of that info.

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  2. I also plan to discuss about the same issue on my project. I agree that a lot of people do not use privacy settings even though social networking sites provide them. In some countries, networking sites which allow users to display only nicknames are popular. It may be better way to prevent the identity theft.

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