Persuasive Essay On Social Media Privacy

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The Internet can be a useful and wonderful environment filled with bountiful amounts of information and yet be one of the most dangerous places in the world. Social networking sites allow us to share our lives with family and friends that we are separated from or keep up with all the latest news from anyone on our friends list. Whether we share a glimpse of our day to day lives or the entire world is updated from moment to moment all depends on what we post to the walls of our favorite social networking sites. It seems harmless enough to post where we are and what we are doing from one minute to the next, until someone decides to take that information from your seemingly innocent post and can now easily find out who you are, your address, your …show more content…

This information may not be viewed only by friends and family and according to your privacy settings, could be seen by anyone in the world. The use of posting picture with a GPS stamp that labels where a picture was taken and where we were when we posted it to the wall of Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace can lead criminals right to you or your family. A criminal or someone with bad intentions can easily find out information about you and your family from knowing your location by the GPS stamp on your photos or status updates that are posted to the timelines of social media sites. Using the strictest privacy settings on all social media sites and only adding people that you know are good ways to protect your family and your private …show more content…

Cyberbullying has become a very serious issue. One of the first cases of cyberbullying that made the news headlines was that of Megan Meier of Missouri. In late 2006, Megan was 13 years old and was a Myspace user. Megan was noted to be a self-conscious person and this caused her parents to move her from a public school to a private one. Megan had an off and on again friendship with a neighborhood girl. The Drew family lived just down the road from the Meier family but once they moved Megan out of the public school, the friendship between the Drew girl and Megan begin to fade. The cyberbullying began after it was thought by the Drew family that Megan had been gossiping about the Drew girl. The accusation fueled the drama that pursued on Myspace. Megan began an online friendship with a boy named Josh and Megan and Josh messaged everyday over Myspace forming an online relationship, or so Megan thought. It turned out that Josh was not a real person and was a ruse to see what Megan would say about the Drew girl and he had been fabricated by the mother of the Drew girl. The fabricated Josh began accusing Megan of talking badly about her friends. Megan never talked about her friends even after being pressed to do so and an online argument followed with other girls joining in. In the end, Megan was told by Josh that the world would be better off without her in it. Thirteen year old Megan

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