Social media is a great tool to connect with people you already know but it can also put you in danger by exposing your information to strangers. Media websites such as Facebook makes it so easy for someone who may not know who you are to view your pictures, status, and check-ins. They can learn so much about the person you are, what you like, and where you go on a daily basis just by viewing your Facebook page. Sometimes people do not know how to work Facebook's privacy settings or they do not care who views their page. This is very dangerous regarding what the person who is viewing your profile's intentions are. Many rape and murder cases are based off of social media interactions. People who use social medias should be more cautious of what they are posting up because the whole world may be observing their actions.
Whatever you post up on social media websites do not belong to you anymore. Media sites such as Instagram, Snap Chat, and Facebook have the rights to claim your photos because you have uploaded onto their site and it belongs to them. This is one of the biggest problem with social media right now. A lot of users are not aware that what ever they post up on these websites, they will lose ownership of it because Facebook has the rights to put ownership on it themselves. This gives them the right to use the pictures as advertisements or just keep them in their data base. Social media users should really be more careful of what they put up and not to expose their private life to the world.
Hi Joyce!
ReplyDeletePrivacy is really a huge problem for new media. Did you hear about Snapchat's lawsuit regarding them keeping users photos? I hope they don't lie to us users and keep all of our data!