This is a generation of social networking. As I did last assignment, I could find many social networking web sites and so many people have been playing in the society. Travbuddy is a social networking site providing to help make travel mates. People fill out their profiles and find people who are planning to go on a trip. I was very surprised because it means social networking is turning its way from online to offline. In this situation, there is an important thing to concern about; privacy. The two articles I found are talking about these things.
According to The future of Social Networking, the sister of the writer found her new roommate through Facebook. She scrutinized people’s profile and selected one, and she could know that the girl was close to her family and she had great group of friends. It is rather stalking, because she could know even the future roommate’s boyfriend by looking at her Facebook photos.
The other blog I found is The future of social networks and privacy: A brief research synopsis. It is viewing recent social networking web sites are invading personal privacies, so there should be some legal regulation against the problem. United States is behind of Europe and Canada in terms of privacy legislation to protect private information.
By thinking about the future of social networking, the use of private information should be regulated by law. The systems of recent social networks show too many things of users, and sometimes people cannot control it. Even more, there are special applications to track people who visit some blogs. With this application, the user can know who visited my blog, which pictures s/he clicked, and how many pages s/he clicked on the lists. I was so shocked that I did not want to believe in the existence of this application, but it is. There is no way to know the owner of the blog is using that kind of thing. It is invasion of privacy, but there is no regulation against the use of that kind of things.
We have learned about the world of social media and networking by this class. We know it is useful, and we also know it will be used more and more in the future. However, the problem of privacy is the thing we should solve before occurring golden age of social media and networking, because we know what kind of problems will be happened, and sometimes, we cannot know what will be really happened by the problem.
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ReplyDeleteThat's really true that privacy will be the major problem as social media will keep growing rapidly. However, I don't think it is possible to prevent those things from happening because of how large the internet is. It is important that all of us internet users gain appropriate media literacy and take control of our own action.
ReplyDeletegood posting! as internet grows, privacy has been allways problem. I don't think there is a way to prevent it perfectly but we have to try :)
ReplyDeletePrivacy is definitely going to become a major issue regarding social media and networking in the future. It's scary to think about the information people can find about you on the Internet and now companies are exploiting it to sell you products.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that if someone were to spend 6 straight hours instead of a couple minutes facebook stalking someone they could find out some really private, personal information that the user would not want to be publicly available.
ReplyDeleteIt's scary but we all, as users of web 2.0, probably have way too much info out there on the net then we're comfortable with. I know I feel that way