As for now, how many social networking accounts do you have, two, three or maybe more than four? In today’s world of globalization, internet plays an important role in our daily lives. A day without internet is like a day without food. Sometimes, you may skip your lunch or dinner, as long as you are connected to the internet. Social networking is one of the major trends in internet creation. Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighborhood subdivision, if you will (Social Networking, 2012). Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Blog, hi5, MySpace, LinkedIn are examples of top social networking around the world.
Social networking is first created to market business and services between an organization and its targeted audience. But now it seems social networking has become a medium of communication between one people to one people, and one people to another. People are more prefer to choose social networking as a medium of communication is because it is cost effective, time saving and also you do not have to face that particular person – which is not a very good communication.
In every good, there will be a bad things come. It also goes to social networking. Some people may see it as a good application to use but some may not. As for Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), if you do not have a Facebook account, you are not yet consider the members of CMU. Facebook is the top social networking site that is user friendly and contains all the information needed about the user such as picture, phone number, status, birthday, current location and many more. Even though it seems to be more practical, but privacy also has to be a priority.
A pilot survey has been conducted by Tabreez Govani and Harriet Pashley to investigate the issues about student’s concern and privacy section in the Facebook. As the result, they realize about the privacy section, but they prefer to ignore it. They contented to expose their personal information. According to Facebook statistics report, there are five millions facebook account created and nearly 70% of that numbers are active account. Based on the research done, there are two broad categories why users join Facebook. First categories are because of friends recommendation and peer pressure. The other categories are relates to the usefulness of Facebook in meeting new people, keeping in touch, getting help in courses, finding old friends and making new friends.
In most cases, users were more moderate in accepting a friend request than asking other users to be their friends. The acceptance of friends in Facebook is more easy and readily than outside of Facebook whereby the name, background and what you do for living are major question before becoming a friend. Even though the acceptance of friends in Facebook is much higher than outside Facebook, but the level of trustiness of friends in Facebook is very low because you do not know who and what agenda your social friend had on you.
Facebook are created to keep in touch with their colleges which give them the chance to share some information. Even though it may seems easier to give all the information so that it easy to others to know about yourself, but it may be dangerous for a user who have stalker or people who had a bad instinct on you. Based on the result of the research, the researcher found that majority of the students aware on how to restrict their information to different Facebook users. While there are still large numbers of students who still share their personal information such as telephone number and home address.
In United Kingdom, there is one case where a man Peter Chapman used fake Facebook profile to lure student Ashleigh Hall. Peter Chapman was sentenced to life imprisonment after he admitted kidnapping, raping and murdering a teenage children. This case has made one example for the students for not reveal personal information on Facebook.
Source : http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/mar/08/peter-chapman-facebook-killer
http://lorrie.cranor.org/courses/fa05/tubzhlp.pdf
In Facebbok, it has become a trend that people shared their personal information with the public, without knowing the danger that they have lured themselves into. That is why it is very important for FB users to be aware on the degree that the information that has been disseminated. There are cases whereby a display picture, that they think may be harmless can be edited by irresponsibility people to frame them. Therefore, it is crucial for FB users to fully utilise FB's privacy setting in which they can actually control the amount of information that they want to share with others. But of cause, it is much safer, not to insert personal information, especially in terms of the users' contact details and even locations where they have checked in, because they might not know to which extend that the criminals will used this information to harm them.
ReplyDeleteI second that Ami. Not just only Facebook, other media sharing sites or social networking sites such as Foursquare updates whereby checking in and checking out your location is considered unsafe and risky because people are aware of your current location. Just take a look if for instance, you're being hunted by a group of people, they gonna just found you in a glimpse of eye. On top of that, for Facebook, we often heard that Facebook has destroyed many marriages as far I'm concern in Indonesia, their cases regarding this are very high. Not all of our details and information we can disclose to public. Just be average I must say. Peace!
ReplyDeleteSimply put, internet is like a world without barriers. Anyone will be able to get your information if they have the right skills.
ReplyDeleteThird party policy? Nahhh they don't even bother.
If you are too paranoid, log off and start living a life without all these social networking sites.
This is a good topic by the way :)