The Pros And Cons Of Privacy

People tend to believe that everything on their social media accounts are private and controllable by their privacy controls alone. Privacy is a misconception because social networks are never completely private. Outsiders can gain some access to a user’s personal information through websites, including hackers, identity thieves, advertisers and employees of the network. Several social network sites have ways for consumers to protect themselves from an average user without coding or hacking capabilities. They typically provide their users the ability to set privacy settings. This means that the individual can add, or block anyone from viewing their account. Also the individual is capable of limiting the access to specific photos, or posts on
Although I was able to make my profile, my plan of using it to socialize with my friends backfired. I didn’t even want to add my friends with the looks of my profile. It would’ve been social suicide. From glancing at my page, there would be no doubt about it -to anyone who view it- that I was a child. Glittery pink butterflies and flowers were my screensaver, a yellow Carebear holding a bright rainbow against his chest was my profile picture, and a Kidz Bop version of “Hips Don’t Lie” was my background music. Even at the cost of things, at least I was still able to say I had a Myspace
My mom well informed me of the dangers of adding random people. She used scare tactics by sharing real stories from the news of young girls around my age who experienced negative issues with hackers, fake profiles, and pedophiles. Her scare tactics put fear in me, so I only added people I knew personally. It wasn’t a big deal to me because I did not even socialize as much as I played games on my page. The only people who I ever messaged were my two best friends Mere and Jefferson, who made new Myspace accounts every month. Neither of them were allowed to have an account, so it was nothing new when their old account would be gone and a new one would add