According to CNN, "Privacy is dead, and social media hold smoking gun." They believe that our constant need to capture and share every moment of our lives will diminish our privacy.
Recently, a U.K. firm is releasing a camera that was invented to capture every single moment of a person's life. It's worn on a cord around your neck and takes an image every thirty seconds. The camera costs $820.
CNN argues that this "life-logging device" posses many risks to our privacy from stalkers to identity theft. What happens if someone gets their hands on your camera? Their could be a plethora of pictures a thief could use to steal your identity or find out everything about you and stalk your life.
Many social networking sites pose the same issue. By constantly letting people in on multiple details of your life, providing your location, and uploading personal pictures, you have the chance of someone using these details to target you.
But this is my question. With articles like this CNN article, social networking users are heavily aware of the "risks" involved with social networking. Social networking is a great way to connect with people in a safe way, if you know what you're doing. If you manage your privacy settings and don't post incredible details about your life, you shouldn't have a problem.
Lastly, if you are on a social networking site, you shouldn't care much about privacy in the first place. When you let your 700 friends in on all the details of your life, how are you trying to be private? I believe social networking is a way for people to display these things about their life that they wouldn't always vocalize, but feel more comfortable behind a computer screen.
Read the CNN article here.
Just as there are really dumb people who take inappropriate pictures of themselves on their phone and send them to people, there are people out there doing really stupid things with social media. Unfortunately, these are the kinds of stories the media likes to pick up on and preach about doom and brimstone.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree that you need to be the one to censor yourself in what you post online. Treat it as once it's up there, you can never take it back.