Among teens and young adults, the Snapchat app is a social media giant with 158 million people using it everyday (Carson, Business Insider). The gist of the app is to connect with friends by sending photos and texts that “delete” themselves ten seconds after the recipients opens them. As other social medias have begun to copy the concept, Snapchat had to adapt itselves by adding new features. One of those features is called SnapMap and debuted in June 2017 and allows those on your friends list to view your precise location if you permit the app to share it. With the majority of Snapchat’s users being Millennials and under the age of 18 (Aslam, Omnicore Agency), it has become a immense privacy concern. Ultimately, Snapchat shouldn’t be allowed …show more content…
For example, if one day you go to a Starbucks Coffee and take a picture of yourself holding your drink, the next few days an advertisement of Starbucks Coffee would appear on your app. With this in mind it’s concerning to see that a company used by millions is profiting off of what can essentially be considered stalking. As users are oblivious to this, Snapchat profits on where you’re going and then if they can get you to go back to that place, or somewhere similar. Moreover, repeatedly in Snapchat’s privacy policy they refer to their business partners and without naming specifically who they are. In it, they talk about how during the time of a merger with another company, that all their information is a free for all. They add that to help with a possible sale or liquidation, Snapchat will offer nearly all of it’s user information to see if they’re compatible with possible investors or companies interested in an acquisition with the company. At the end of the privacy policy, Snapchat even subtly warns the users that information will be shared with Snapchat’s sister companies. Nevertheless stated in the privacy policy, users of Snapchat are clueless in the sharing of their personal and the money being made off of it because they would rather absentmindedly agree to the policy rather than read
There is a threat to our individual privacy that is created by other peoples’ social media accounts (Smith, Szongott, Henne, & Von Voigt, 2012). For instance, let’s say that I was minding my own business and enjoying the wind blow through my hair at a park. A photographer comes by and takes a scenic photograph down by the pond and in the background, in the far distance, you could see me sitting on a bench soaking up some sunlight with some other people also in the background. The photographer then takes the photo home and posts it on his social media account for his portfolio. This seems harmless, right? But now, I have two issues with this. First, I did not give my consent to have this photo taken and second, my location has now been
In this era where thousands of incredible apps are available for free. It is possible to get lost in the jungle of app store and play store. Even though the millennials have not yet been able to figure out a way of moving out of their parent’s houses, they have discovered Snapchat from the labyrinth.
Going back to college after you have been out of school for quite a few years, had three children, been married, and divorced is a lot harder than I ever imagined. It takes hard work, dedication, and missing out on the little things previously taken for granted. I miss taking naps the most. I believe if you can tough it out through the worst days, you can finish school and provide a better life for your children and yourself. You need a lot of willpower and a large sense of humor.
Millions of people resent the government for being somewhat of a Big Brother, making accusations of spyware programs and hacking, supposedly regulating our every move, yet freely share exceedingly personal information publicly. It has become common practice to post about your family members, location, phone number, email address, workplace, political affiliations and so much more, reaching far beyond the simple question “what are you doing now?”. Although many sites like Twitter and Instagram have a delete button, your postings are in actuality never erased permanently, but instead are gone from your so-called timeline. Daum notes in her essay that, “in a world without boundaries… privacy as a cultural or even personal value has been going out of style for quite some time now” (233). It is almost hypocritical in a way how our society pretends to value secrecy and discretion, yet people of all walks of life exhibit very little self restraint when it comes to filtering the kinds of information they post about
Facebook has been in the news over a major scandal reveal of them having been releasing Facebook user’s information to companies. The main company that is in the spotlight is Cambridge Analytica. It appears that Facebook has been sharing user information and data with Cambridge Analytica since 2007. The main app that the information was received from is a personality sharing app that was accessed by over 300,000 people. Cambridge was able to collect data on tens of millions of Facebook friends of the users who installed the app. Facebook primarily makes its money through advertisements. Companies pay Facebook to advertise on their outlet to over 2 billion users across the country. It is known this is a major part of
Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy cofounded Snapchat in 2011 (Cite). Different magazines and newspaper companies are getting involved with Snapchat by having a story button where they can run of some of the top stories of the day or pictures that you are able to double tap and send out to your contacts. When these two created Snapchat they were college students, so I would definitely say I am a part of this companies original target audience. The first time I had ever heard of this app was by word of mouth and I just found it to be cool because it let me see what my friends were doing. Being that my generation enjoys actually being able to interact with people and places without having to physically be there is something that these founders really
Beginning with the wise words of Billy Graham, “Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing”. Unfortunately, one of the risks that social media applications do not disclose to users is the high possibility of privacy invasion. Since geotags contain detailed information about users’ location data, having this data extracted by treacherous sources can be harmful for a variety of reasons. The first reason follows the fact that social media applications share user information, including location, with third-party applications that may not be as secure as popular social media platforms. For instance, Twitter until 2014 hosted user images on various domains, one of them being TwitPic. Although Twitter acquired
Every day, I communicate with my friends and family through a social media platform, called Snapchat. Snapchat, is a way for me to talk to people I don’t talk to often or talk to new people. It allows people to share funny moments through video or photo, but you can also send a chat to create plans or talk about your day. Although the average person may think there is one way to Snapchat, there are various personalities when it comes to snapping others. These personalities take away from the purpose of snapchat which make it harder for someone to enjoy the app.
In May 2007, Google added an innovative feature to Google Maps, called Google Street View. Street View provides 360 degree views of addresses from street level. Google cites many possible uses for the technology, such as showing long-distance friends and family your house, checking out the handicapped accommodations at establishments in advance, or previewing potential vacation rentals. Street View is available for most major metropolitan areas in the United States as well as selected countries abroad. As with any project that has a scope as grand as Street View’s. Google’s new technology has some drawbacks. Google’s methodology to collect all of these images was to pay people to drive around in cars that had cameras mounted on their roofs. As a result, many of the images contain people going about their daily lives, unaware that they are being photographed. This causes some people concern over their privacy. These fears are unfounded, however, as Google has worked very hard to ease people’s concerns. Ultimately, the utility of the service outweighs the privacy concerns of a small group of people. This paper outlines the privacy rights of United States citizens regarding Street View, what Google has done to address privacy concerns, and then offers a recommendation on whether Google has done enough to address these privacy concerns.
With the release of the new Snapchat update, many users have found that it has not made the app easier to use, but has in fact made many features more difficult. There is a general level of annoyance among users, to the point where many users are using VPN to go back to the old version. Despite Snapchat’s PR team recent statement claiming they understand the disdain towards the new layout and hope that users will adapt well, the
Perhaps the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, said it best when he claimed that privacy is no longer a “social norm.” Virtually everyone has a smart phone and everyone has social media. We continue to disclose private information willingly and the private information we’re not disclosing willingly is being extracted from our accounts anyway. Technology certainly makes these things possible. However, there is an urgent need to make laws and regulations to protect against the stuff we’re not personally disclosing. It’s unsettling to think we are living in 1984 in the 21st century.
One of the greatest contradiction of today is the reality that instead of the screen created to be used, it became the users. Whether it’s at a school or even at a meeting, I see people with their eyes glued to their screens, a device that is the root of the growing impediments in today’s generation's social interactions and academic career. I am of no exception either. I tend to spend around seven hours a day in front of either my phone or my computer. What I usually do during this time are going on SnapChat(my favorite app), watching Rick and Morty (my favorite TV show) or going on Netflix(my favorite website).
Since Snapchat was created in 2013, the application continues to flourish year after year. Today, the company is worth around 20 billion dollars and has 7 billion video views each day. This makes Snapchat the fastest growing social network for millennials. Snapchat stands at a large advantage in the social media field, because publishers desire to bring their content to places where their content will be viewed the most.
Technology has advanced tremendously over the past decade, and appears to be advancing at a rapid pace each and every day. The social media is growing just as rapidly. Social media is an interaction between individuals that want to exchange information, photographs, and ideas in different types of networks. Social media users include people of all ages. These people have various experiences, have different cultures, and have various technical skills. (Brandtzaeg 1008) The social media depend on net-based technologies to generate the network for users to share. Social media includes everything that has to do with the Internet. By using the Internet, users can communicate with people locally and worldwide. People are no longer required to travel across the world to experience another culture. This can be done with social networking. The types of social media today come with many different types of communication such as social blogs, wall-postings, songs, photographs, and podcasts. The communication between users is informational, interactive, and also educational. However, unfortunately, most social networking sites keep track of all the interactions that take place, and this is a concern about Internet privacy for Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other social media users. Not only do they keep track of all interactions by the users, they also own all the content, including pictures that the users upload. The social network keeps this information on the user, even if the user deactivates their account with that particular site. Most users do not have any idea that the operator of the networking service keeps this information, and has access to all pictures and tags. By not having adequate security...
Although social media is a healthy channel for personal interactions among friends and peers for the youth of today, the lack of understanding about online privacy creates a severe threat on multiple levels. Many teenagers and young adults remain oblivious to the consequences of their online posts and have little to no discretion when sending personal information to...