Monday, April 7, 2014
Privacy & Confidentiality
Not a lot of people know that when they check the box "I Agree" on the confirmation page, they are basically signing away their social media rights to the social media websites. The things that you post one social media does not belong to you anymore after its out there. Even when you delete something off the internet, the truth is, nothing is every deleted on the internet. That's why I believe that you should be very careful about what you post up. Use very limited information about yourself when you register for a social media website. Even though its "your" page, technically it doesn't belong to you and people can do whatever they want with your information. Think twice about posting things up or putting personal information for the public. Your safety should always come first no matter the circumstances.
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This is true that information put on some servers far away no longer belongs to the person and he looses control over it. Third parties often take that data and process in different ways. License agreements on those websites are made so that they exploit the current privacy laws and make the users not aware of it. On the flip side those services are free for everyone so we cannot complain too much. If SN's were charging people money no one would use it.
ReplyDeleteHi Garson,
ReplyDeleteI think its also interesting to note how the websites you visit for products, will post ads on social media sites highlighting the exact product you've been looking at moments ago. Commercialism has reached new heights thanks to new media allowing large companies to target you for ads whenever you're online. Social media sites allow this to happen because as we all know, they make a lot of money buy letting companies buy ad space and time. Privacy and confidentiality has definitely decreased significantly with heightened new media technology.