Nowadays, almost everyone is involved in new media such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, or LinkedIn if they know how to deal with internet.
People find their old friends and keep in touch with them or find jobs by using
these social networking sites. However, it seems like people give up their
personal information so easily just to join social networking sites on the internet. They put their real information like their address, phone numbers, birthdays etc, but one important fact they easily forget is that identity thieves, scam artists, debt collectors, stalkers, cyber criminals and
corporations seeking for a market advantage are using social networks to
collect various data from the users of the websites.
This issue causes another serious problem "Confidentiality". Users who put their real information usually trust the websites they use, but the employees who work for the websites' system might get tempted to sell the users' personal information to others. And this is the starting point where you get all spam text messages and advertising emails from random people or companies. However, it's not something that we can always avoid by not putting our real information. A lot of websites make us to put our phone numbers or emails to send us confirmation codes. It is mandatory for people who want to join the websites these days. Now, who is going to take the responsibility of privacy issue became everyone's homework. The users? the companies(websites)? or the government?
This issue causes another serious problem "Confidentiality". Users who put their real information usually trust the websites they use, but the employees who work for the websites' system might get tempted to sell the users' personal information to others. And this is the starting point where you get all spam text messages and advertising emails from random people or companies. However, it's not something that we can always avoid by not putting our real information. A lot of websites make us to put our phone numbers or emails to send us confirmation codes. It is mandatory for people who want to join the websites these days. Now, who is going to take the responsibility of privacy issue became everyone's homework. The users? the companies(websites)? or the government?
I strongly agree with you and often find it silly how so many sites are using such a method to attain leads on our personal information. In contrast to the late 90's to early 2000's people often never gave out even their real name much less anything else more personal. I think that perhaps our society is so ingrained with digital everything that our own privacy is becoming more lax. It is rather scary of a though.
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