Exploring the Impact of Social Networking

being required. Nevertheless, while speaking to the philosopher’s world and regulations, ethics play a quite important issue of discussions it forms that the basics factor to consider in the social world I which privacy is one of the ethical issues involved.

Hence, this article will mainly discuss on the social networking has changed people expectations of privacy and what are the cause and the consequences. At the beginning of the growth of the social networking, there were a lot promising features on the level of security that was guaranteed to these sites. The government had ensured that they would provide that personal safety on the social networking sites would be a no matter of worry as security would be provided adequately and with utmost urgency, however, what we see today is the opposite of what was expected concerning the privacy of the social media. As from we are witnessing today, the arrested at which social media are evolving and developing is quite more than the government cannot keep up with the pace of ensuring privacy.

In one of the public speeches in which Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg states “people have become more comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds but more openly with more people.” Hence according to the word of the CEO, he instead that in the world that we live today, privacy is no longer a social norm. Thus, this indicates that the level at which social media upholds privacy is quite small as that information is more vulnerable to be seen by the many kinds of people found in the networking websites. Therefore, this message was surprising to many people who viewed

online social networking sites as upholding high levels of privacy. As a result, a lot of individuals have begun to have fears regarding the usage of social media due to the fear that one may post a message that could be beneficial and it could end up landing in the wrong hands. The perception of how people view privacy and security of the information posted on the profile walls and the news timelines can be indicated by the various opinions polls presented by different research centers. According to research conducted by Pew research center, it noted that most American had fears in sharing their personal information on the various social networks, and therefore they were cautious on while using these websites.

Additionally, the research found American was ready to share information depending on the deal that is offered and how much they risked. According to the research, the audience involved were presented with scenarios that would make them share information to the various social networking sites. As from the results of the survey, 17% of the population involved in the research, it was found that they would not accept any of the deals presented to the given scenarios while only a staggering 4% said that they would receive all the deals. Hence, the remaining percentage said that would at least accepted one of the deals .moreover as American, who agreed to share their information on the social media sites, most of them agreed that they act they were not happy with what happened once they exchanged information. Hence, according to this survey, it is quite evident that the level of confidence regarding the usage of social

media has reduced considerably. Additionally on a different study conducted on early 2015 by the Pew research center, it concerned a view of the level privacy and confidentiality practiced on social media sites.

Most of the audience agreed for purposes of ensuring that the level security is maintained in the country, the government too need to be limited to the degree of surveillance they carried out through social networking sites. Most of the American according to the research indicated that is paramount to maintain a high level of privacy and confidentiality concerning the privacy and confidentiality of their private life. According to the survey, it was found that most of the Americans, indeed 88% stated that they would now want anyone to watch, follow or listen to them, without their consent. On the other the survey found that most of the people, 63% concluded that it was good for someone to goo in public without being noticed another 34% of the population believe that it is imperative to go unnoticed in public.

Hence, these finding further indicate that most of the people believe that and lost trust on the use of social media websites as good sites where someone could share information privately with only the intended audience being able to see. Nevertheless, this has turned out to be the opposite as most now through the various social media websites, once someone’s post information and a lot of individuals can view the information even without owner permission. Hence, this has created a lot of untrustworthy in the mind of people and also leads to the lot of irregularities that we in the social media platforms. Facebook is

one of the most common social media websites with millions of users’ all over the world.

The social media company is valued worth of billions due to its vast kind of usage of as is one of the leading sites where one can retrieve information. At the formation of Facebook, it was fist meant to be used as sites where university students would share information and communicate with each other without other people not from the same school viewing their kind of information. During these times, personal information that is now asked for from Facebook was not applicable. However later one it was evident that more people could see the post even people from unrecognized location and thus, later on, Facebook went to make the website public in the year 2004.

Since then, Facebook feature have worked on changing over time as nowadays more details on personal information are being asked out. Some of the of the details include the dates of birth, places of residence and more close and touching informational like interests and hobbies. These kinds of information area open to the public and thus questioning on the privacy and the safety of the usage of Facebook as a social networking site. Additionally, recently Facebook has also gone on to include other additional sites on its websites such as nowadays it is possible to view the friend lists of people even for who are not known to the user. Thus are some of the issues pertaining the privacy and confidentiality of social networking sites.

However Facebook being one of the biggest online websites serves as an excellent example of the kind of privacy concerns regarding the

use of social networking. Other types of social sites being in use today are Twitter, Instagram, snapping chat, MySpace, all of which have privacy issues. Moreover, one of the principles concerning social networking websites networks is that they site each of the information found on their websites in their databases software. Hence, each and very information of the user can be retrieved if necessary. Thus, this shows further that there is no kind of privacy found in these social websites. Hence due to the due to the low level of privacy found in these social networking sites, there has been a lot of crimes and socially unacceptable actions that get to be performed in these locations.

One of the acceptable unsocial activities that take place for people using social media is cyberstalking. Research has shown that more that 63% of individuals who use social networking site shave been subjected to cyberstalking crimes. Cyberstalking involves a situation where an individual tends to stalk someone on social media trying to gather more information regarding the user. Cyber stalking has been made possible on the kinds of information that users post on their profiles as personal information. Thus, this information is always made public for everyone who accesses the website can see the information. Furthermore with the help of this information, once one Google was the name of the username as indicated on the networking sites with and an added name of the social networking company name he name of the user and added gets to appears.

As a consequence, most of the people have been able to use these sites to facilitate the criminal activities on individuals. Furthermore, there

has been some other software which can be used to find the location of a social media website user once a photo is uploaded on the internet. These types of software use the uploaded photo to locate the place of the user once the picture is uploaded on the web. Thus, a lot of kidnappings have been possible, thanks to the usage of social networking sites that are available.

As a result, most people have shunned away from posting personal information on the social networks, and thus, a lot of information that is found on these sites are mainly misleading information that is full of lies with them. Another malicious act caused due to the usage of these online social websites can be explained through the unintended publicity and fame that occur due to certain kinds of information passing through the various types’ social media platforms. Nowadays achieving unwanted publicity is such an easy task, thanks to the presence of online social sites. In case someone captures a funny picture or photo that passes along varying kinds of information to the public, the picture can make rounds on the various platforms thus creating fame towards the individual. Additionally with rising demand for smartphones with very god quality cameras and every fast internet settings, it is entirely possible for one to capture someone’s image unknowingly, and then it spread online.

There have been so many cases of personal information of people that have been passed through the social networking sites that have resulted in the tarnishing the image of the characters. As a consequence, the person ends up not being able to gain employment as most of the

employers get to know of the unnecessary kinds of information. Additionally, it has been reported that due to the nature of the social networking, most of the people have lost their employment opportunities due to the kind of information that they post on these sites. It was found that most of the employers used the social media networks to screen their candidates on their suitability to the job.

information regarding drug and alcohol use, inappropriate photographs, and the level of communication skills aware the kinds of information that most of the manager were looking for as they screened information found o social media sites. Nevertheless, most of the people have reported of their social media accounts getting hacked by software expertise. Hacking of individuals accounts has resulted identity theft taking place where unidentified people get to use some else’s account to carry out actions that are will be confident to the original user’s debt. Hence, this has allowed a lot of criminal activities be perpetrated through the social media websites hence raising an alarm the safety of these sites. There have been reports indicating there a lot of celebrities whose Twitter accounts have been hacked, and their accounts have been used to spread false information concerning their personality.

Hence, this clearly shows that most social media has allowed a lot of inappropriateness to take place in our society. Additionally, another issue of concern about consequences resulting to the lack of privacy, in the social media websites is that it has allowed sexual predators able to find a place where they can carry out their vice. Due to the availability of the publicity of personal information posted on

the profiles, bad intended people can log into those kinds of information that may assist them in acquiring more information about a person. Hence, from this knowledge of the use, these kinds of criminal tend to persuade and lure young kids who end up in the hands of these individual and at long last they abuse them. One discouraging feature about these social websites is that they lack an age restriction boundary; therefore each kind of person even children can use these websites to look for online friends.

However at bad lack hey might meet up with these strangers who possess fake identities. There have several publicized cases where, with the help of the FBI, numbers of these sexual predators have been arrested after being found guilty of carrying out the kidnapping and sexual molesting. Thus, this shows that humans are suffering a lot due to the lack of adequate privacy guaranteed on this social networking. One important fact about the various applications on online social websites is that they all contain information about their customers.

Hence, this makes the owner of the various social online sites able to share customer information to theory relevant friends who might be advertisers’ fellow business people. Thus according to research hat was carried by the wall street journal came to the realization that most of the Facebook application share their customer information to other Facebook application, and the act is illegal according to the rules and regulations of Facebook. One common feature about the use of social websites is that after liking one official business page of a company or corporation, after some time some similar kinds of pages tend

to appear requesting for following. Hence, this shows that some personal information details are somehow passed to other marketers and advertisers.

Additionally, after one participates in an online kind of survey that require sharing of person information, like names and phone numbers, most of the participants have recorded that after the study was over, they received a lot of phone calls and messages from various relevant companies requesting for their participation in their study. Thus, this shows that no kind of privacy is practiced in the social network websites. Conclusively, social networking has significantly changed the manner in which people get the share to information in fear of lack of privacy on these sites. Through the use of the social networks available, a lot of heinous activities are getting practiced hence allowing a lot of people not to trust these sites as initially they a little more trustworthy.

Thus to ensure that people get to trust these sites, need to be done to ensure that user privacy is guaranteed to facilitate the safe social networking. On the other hand, people need to be careful about the kind of information that they post on these social media websites as they have proven not be safe to use any information posted, may it be private, can be made public. However, social networking is a symbol the world is under constant development, an encouraging factor of a society.

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