My social action project group is focusing on the problems
with privacy through facebook and the overall internet in general. This article shows a study from a pretty well
known magazine Consumer reports. It shows that almost everything that
someone does on facebook can be used harmfully towards you in some way. They can take some little piece of
information that doesn’t seem important or seem like burglars or identity
thieves can do anything with it, but as Consumer
reports shows these small pieces of information can make or break something
happening. One example that really
shocked me and kind of stood out of the rest was that if you “like” a facebook
page about health conditions or treatments, an insurer can use that “like”
against you. Now I find that a
completely wrong thing to do. I think
that most of the time people who like a page about health conditions or
treatments, it is trying to promote a good cause like bringing awareness to
breast cancer or something like that. I would
never have thought that something like this could happen. Another interesting example that was in the
article was that 4.8 million have
used Facebook to say where they planned to go on a certain day. I know that this does happen a lot. I have seen and witnessed people do this over
and over again. I think that if you want
everybody know where you are going, then you should already know the
consequences for letting the world know where you are going, especially if you
are alone. This is just another reason
why I do not use social media. I think
that privacy is important and if I want to tell people where I am going I can
call them, without telling the whole world.
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