Privacy And Facebook: The Negative Impacts Of Facebook

Facebook or “book of faces” has gained a massive amount popularity in recent years, because of it’s friendly interface and unique platform. Nowadays, almost everyone must have heard of or used the application. But only few people realize the negative impact Facebook leaves on users such as privacy, attitude, and behavior.

In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard University, then created his own social networking site. At first, Mark started the website exclusively for Harvard students. In 2009, the guy has became a millionaire, and a successful young entrepreneur. Today, Facebook has the biggest online community which made up by more than six hundred million active users. The main purpose of Facebook is to connect everybody

An identity theft could stalk up to someone, steal their information, and have his way with it. Yet, this whole process can be done under five minutes:

"A clever data thief can could even deduce social security number (which are based on 5-digit ZIP codes, gender, and date of birth)."(Debatin 86)

In an article “Journal of Computer-mediated Communication” Dr.Bernhard Debarin argues that, a smart data thief can exploit user’s information on Facebook with relative ease. If a person completely provide all their privacy informations without a second thought, they are likely to get punished for it. Get ready to face the consequences, because any context or information people put on Facebook will remain there forever, and exposed to the public. For example, one can steal others ' information by becoming a friend with them or join as a group member who shares same interest or idea. Furthermore, The act of posting number, address, schedule, and date of birth can lead to unintended consequences, because third-parties, hacker, and stalker will always find way to abuse users’ personal