Take a look at the privacy policy of Facebook, Twitter and another Social Network of your choice! Compare them and analyze which protects the user best.
Over the past two decades there is a sudden rise in the social networking sites like Facebook, twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram etc. which is related to digital media. Today social networking is the best way to relax yourself after a stressful, hectic and boring day. It keeps track of all your activities, but if we are talking about social networking it does not go mutually with the privacy because social networking is more to deal with the sharing of videos ,photos, files etc. or we can say best way of communicating your thoughts and get connected with the world.
But what if you are not a public figure? What if you do not want to interact with the entire world rather you are interested in sharing of images, videos with your friends and family? How can you keep your posts, your personal information unreachable to the entire world? Yes of course one can make all these things available to those whom they want to look upon them by using same social networking sites ,the term to maintain all these things private is called “privacy ”.Most of the social networking sites like Facebook ,twitter, Instagram offers privacy settings, but you need to be careful.
Privacy can be stated as: The right of the people to keep their houses, papers, things, information secure against fallacious searches. Let’s move on to the privacy policy of Facebook, twitter and path (private social network)
Facebook : Every single day we read the news ,and think that Facebook might be antiprivacy. It is also observed that people often think that social networking sites offer complicated privacy settings. The CEO...
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...t privacy, if you select this your tweets will be received by those whom you approve. Also your future post would not be available publicly but past tweets may be publicly available. There is a restriction of @tweet in which you can reply to people who is not following you but they won’t see your post unless you approve them as follower. In twitter there’s no way to protect your past tweets, they will forever remain public.
WhatsApp: It’s for someone who feels Facebook and twitter is very public and don’t want to get affected by it. It is a smartphone based social networking sites and based on phone numbers, you can sign up by using your phone number, it allows to text and share your information exclusively .I think it’s quite easy, safe, reliable, handy and a great app. No privacy is required at all, so simply one of the best app created till date.
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Using the informal tone he enhances his argument by providing several thought-provoking statements that allow the reader to see the logic in the article, “Social media is designed for the information shared on it to be searched, and shared- and mined for profit… When considering what to share via social media, don 't think business vs. personal. Think public vs. private. And if something is truly private, do not share it on social media out of a misplaced faith in the expectation of privacy” (134). The reader should agree with Edmond that when posting or being a part of the social media bandwagon, you’re life and decisions will be up for display. Moreover, the business vs. personal and public vs. private point is accurate and logical, because evidently if you post something on any social media outlet you should expect that anyone and everyone can see it, regardless of your privacy settings. Edmond highlights that Facebook along with other social networking sites change their privacy settings whenever they please without
Social media companies have complete control a their users information and can do what they want with it. Now if those companies went spreading the information, no one would use their sites but they can make changes to privacy setting that make it easier for anyone to view information of other users. For example, Facebook has privacy settings so your information is not out for public viewing, but a while back they changed the default privacy setting to make all your information viewable to the public unless you changed it. There was an uproar and everyone felt they were trying to be sneaky about it because they did not give any notice when they did it, but Facebook claimed they were not trying to do anything fallacious. Social media companies have to be careful when doing anything with privacy settings because people get extremely defensive regarding their information. There is also a level of comfort that comes with age. The older generations have no trust when it comes to putting their information online. Most feel as if they are being tricked in some way. But the generation kids are growing up in now, all their trust is put in the internet. Kids and young adults will put all their information online because that is how the world functions. In today’s world, if you are not putting all your information online and using your phone and laptop to get everything done, you are inefficient. And this
Despite all the controversy and disagreements, most of the populous would agree that on an individual level, privacy is our space to be ourselves as well as to define ourselves through autonomy and protecting our dignity. Our interactions with others can define the level of our relationships with them through the amount of privacy we can afford in the relationship. As we age and immerse ourselves into society, we gain a sense of confidence and security from our privacy. A sense that others know only what we tell them and we know only what they tell us in exchange. What we fear is what others can access and what they might do if they knew of our vulnerabilities. Maintaining and keeping our vulnerable aspects private, we develop a false sense of personal safety from the outside.
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Privacy is the “ability of individuals to control the terms under which their personal information is acquired and used.”
... However, the media keeps growing faster and keeping people information to themselves has gotten harder and harder, during these changing times. The settings themselves can only do so much. The best way that seems to be best to ensure privacy is to not post anything on the internet at all.
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Many social networks will tell you that the more you put into them (your information), the more you get out of them (connections, recommendations, etc.). However, despite the aura of privacy they try to engender, one must keep in mind that social network takes place in essentially public space, with only the barest of mechanisms providing any semblance of privacy. Even seemingly innocuous data shared with the world can be dangerous in the wrong hands.
The issues caused by online privacy are growing with the increase of Social Networking Sites. Virtually all Social Networking Sites have ‘public’ as their default privacy setting, however that is not what the majority of users prefer. According to a survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project & American Life, 80 % of the users go to the effort to change their settings to private. With the increasing awareness of cyber – crime and the need for privacy, users have now started to rethink their actions online. Carefully selecting whom among your Facebook friends see your personal information, and who should be restricted, blocked or unfriended.