Social Media/Web

Social media/web

Introduction

This paper highlights the high use of social networking sites. The paper also discusses the privacy issues derived because of these social networking sites. In our latitudes, the Internet has become indispensable in the professional world and in private life. However, it contains well-known dangers that loom as the SRS. Malicious people can benefit from such a redefinition of the notions of "trust" and "confidentiality" which characterizes sites. When friendship is primarily quantitative aspects, it is easy, under the guise of lies, even a false identity, to become a "friend" of someone and get information and that "the interlocutor "would perhaps not revealed during a face to face. The assertion operators of such sites, that it merely transfers daily communication with friends on the Net, implies an intimacy that does actually exist in a globalized media, especially not when the network access is relatively easy.

Rise of Social Networking Sites

According to Manafy Michael (2010), Google Buzz came as an uninvited guest for many. While the Gmail users invited Buzz open heartedly. Buzz controlled the guest list and made it publicly available. It's upon the user of the social websites if he wants to include the updates of his social contacts into his private inbox or not. Those who don't want to share their contacts on the public level may use inbox for the contacts. Buzz started chaos as it entered people's lives by a negative start, according to many. It made available all the contacts a user chats with, opining up all social connections. Manafy(2010) argued that the settings of any social web must be disclosed to the user. Users are normally unaware about the initial privacy settings or default privacy settings. Buzz made all the contacts appear on the Google profile. It created uneasiness in the social world where hidden and private contacts were revealed. Google took instant action against all the complaints and hid Buzz after adjusting the privacy controls. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg states that privacy is no longer a social norm. He stated that people are comfortable sharing their information with more people in an open way. He believes that social norm has evolved over time.

Although Facebook has its own privacy settings, but Zuckerberg commented to an audience of 2010 TechCrunch that if he would have invented Facebook today, then everything would have been public by default. It is unlikely that he would have made anything like private settings. Even Fcebook changes its privacy settings time to time where the users, normally, are unaware of the recent developments. Barry Schnitt, the director of corporate communications of Facebook, believed that the world is more open now. He stated that the comments made on Twitter and MySpace are posted on the newspaper websites making it a reality television. Manafy commented that the younger generation living today is more public than all the previous generations.

The generation is living in social networking environment where they share their preferences, activities and opinions openly and on a routine ...