Social media and the right to privacy [618715]

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Social media and the right to privacy
I. Introduction:
“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”― Gabriel García
Márquez
In our times social media has evolved immensely , so I ask myself this question – Are we able to
separate public from private and still keep secrets ? From my point of view, we arrived at a point
where whenever something good, positive happens you have the immediate instinct to share it on
the online env ironment. If we only think about the fact that our connections are beyond
boundaries. I can talk from my situation that when I was younger, I did not care much who m I
accept as my “friend”. But as I grew up I understood that I can put myself in danger sharing
important information to complete strangers.
II. Privacy dictionary meaning vs. the real meaning
Privacy is described in the dictionary as being” the state of being free from public attention.” The
law of privacy states the following:” Privacy law refers to the laws that deal with regulating,
storing, and using of personally identifiable information of individuals, which can be collected
by governments, public or private organizations, or by other individuals.” (Wikipedia)
Online networking is nowadays the most used form of communication between inviduals. A
long range of platforms emerged , for example, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram
changed the way we interact and share information with each other . Things grew up in the eye
of the users very q uick. Now you can know where a person is just by looking on Facebook, and
no I was not talking about the well -known “check in’s”, they added the option called “Nearby
Friends ”a special feature and if you look it up you can easily see where they are in re al time.
Facebook as a business gathers and literally owns all your data that you store on your profile, and
by that I mean everything – even your personal chats.
When we want to sign up to a certain site, a lot of us if not everybody, prefers the easy path –
connect with Facebook, and no there is not judgment in this statement, because I do it too, but by
doing this we just give them another piece of our contact, our preferences. And I won’t even
mention the so called “cookies”. There is a concept called “cy bercrime” that first made its
appearance in the 90’s and now it is all grown up. Everything is recorded while we surface the
Internet. From IP addresses , searched key words, online transactions , mobile registrations to the
simple content from social media, contributes to the control of our lives. It is known that the fifth
version of HTML was made to provide to the advertising companies the necessary access to
user’s activity, in order to show them commercials, offers according to their activity.
When you utilize web -based social networking, you are essentially posting individual data on the
web. At the point when that data gets posted on the web, it is not any more private, and may

wind up falling into wrong hands. Regardless of whether you have s et up the most astounding
conceivable safety efforts, some of your companions, associates and organizations you connect
with via web -based networking media, can wind up releasing your own data. Along these lines,
you should be extremely cautious about what you post on the web, else, you will wind up giving
the eventual criminals, stalkers, identity thieves the data they require to cause hurt among you or
your close o nes. And I have the best example f or this: I recently read a n article about a teenager
that received nude photos of his mother from a former lover of hers that was ang ry she stopped
seeing him. Who would want their kids to see them in such a pos ition? No one.
Social media has turned int o a piece of human life. Starting from simple sharing content like,
photographs, messages, a lot of us ers, organizations have begun sharing news or related pictures
in the online space , question papers, assignments, and workshops in education area , thinking that
it is easier to post for h elp then try by themselves . Some post on different online spaces like
blogs or min i blogs, online review s, showcasing, and focusing on clients in business environment
and some simply choose to share jokes, music, and recordings for entertainment utility . Due to
its use by Internet surfers in all conceivable ways, even small would say the long range
interpersonal communication media as the prese nt Internet culture. While getting a charge out of
the data sharing on Social Medias, yet it requires an incredible arrangement for security and
protection. The clients' data that are to be kept undisclosed ought to be made private.
As a grow n up, now I realize the importance of privacy, and I try to share as less as possible
with the online environment, because I have realized that more than half of them are either
jealous or talk behind backs, your success or suffer. Memories can be and are better kept within
us, it is what remains and lives within us. Bullying is the biggest social problem of our
generation and it is mostly done from the s creens of the c omputers , but from my point of view if
you do not give them material to gossip there won’t be any subject to be discussed. People can
be mean and sometimes we are the argument s starters. Dep ending on each one of us we should
know what to and what not to post, on social media. Everything posted online becomes the
Internet ’s proper ty and it can be saved by millions, I and it is just my own opinion I would not
want m y deepest secrets to be reve aled to the public eye.
So my proposal is: Try to drop the need of perman ent connection with the social networking, try
to live in the moment without sharing it online, I can assure that you will remember it more
vividly and the feelings will be more authentic. Some m oments are be tter kept in your own
cerebral memory than on your phone ’s memor y. Try it a few times and see that your life will
evolve and negativity will flown away.