Facebook is a famous social networking site that makes it easy to connect and socialize with family, friends and even strangers online. Through this site, the world feels closer since it can link you to people from thousands of miles away in just a click. And because of its popularity, other websites collaborated with Facebook. This means a single Facebook account can sign in to different services through the Web. Since then, Facebook has experienced intense growth and reached more than a billion users and is still growing swiftly. Facebook can be very beneficial but spending too much time on it can ruin a person’s life too. Although Facebook helps in connecting and communicating with people across the globe, it also has negative effects because …show more content…
People now considers Facebook as their personal diary. giving too much information. They publicly publish their status that are meant to be private. It can be life-threatening at times because a lot of people will know your whereabouts especially stalkers. “For example, a simple thing like a status message saying that you’ll be on vacation for the next week is like inviting burglars to rob your house.” (Umar, 2014) Another thing is that account intrusion is common today and we shouldn’t be surprised that Facebook is prone to attacks. A lot are victimized by hackers by changing the victim’s personal information. They hack someone else’s account, replacing their personal information and posting false statuses and news. According to Kavita Iyer (2016), there are ways on how hackers hack accounts: phishing, social engineering and etc. In phishing, the hacker creates a fake log in page similar to the Facebook page and they ask the victim to log in to that fake Facebook page providing the hackers personal information such as email address and password from the victim. In social engineering, hackers can simply invade to your account if you have a weak password such as your mobile number. Visiting to suspicious sites or links will be easier for the hacker to steal your personal
Facebook provides its users with the ability to keep in touch with friends who have moved across the country or friends who are too busy with their lives and fail to come around anymore. In Aaron Smith 's article, “Why Americans Use Social Media,” he says, “Roughly seven in ten users under the age of fifty say that staying in touch with current friends is a major reason they use online social platforms, and just over half say that reconnecting with old friends is equally important.” Facebook is key for people to keep in touch with their once close friends who are now only virtual friends due to various circumstances. Due to their prior friendship, these people know how to help provide support to one another through the rough times in their lives. These virtual friends still have the ability to provide a support network that can be crucial when getting through a
This paper will also talk about any First Amendment arguments that the student with the Facebook page might raise and my responses. Cyberbullying and the steps I am required to take Cyberbullying is a big issue in todays age with all the access to technology. Almost everyone you see adults and students have some type of social media page on either Facebook or Twitter or even both.
Through social media outlets like Facebook, users are able reconnect with long lost friends and family, small and large businesses alike are able to connect with customers and reach more consumers, easier, and faster than ever before. However, along with these benefits are the risks that this easy access and instant communication come with. As scripture states, “All things are lawful”, but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful”, but not all things build up” (1 Corinthians 10:23 ESV). From cyberbullies to predators, users of ages are not immune to the negative effects of social media.
In her document “ The Fakebook Generation,” later to be published in the New York Times on October 6, 2007, Alice Mathias enters the topic of the most used social networking service worldwide, Facebook. Mathias debates on Facebook’s claim of being a forum for “genuine personal and professional connections” and tries to influence her readers to ask themselves if the website really promotes human relationships. The author illustrates in her document the power and impact Facebook had on the population by convincing to be “a place of human connectivity,” but states her idea of Facebook missing its real reason of enriching human connectivity. Mathias goes on how Facebook became more as an “online community theater” than a functional service tool. She provided examples like people who announce relationships with Chinese food in their status in order to make others laugh instead of providing useful updates.
Maria Konnikova first assumes that no one joins Facebook to be sad and lonely. However, she found a study by Ethan Cross (2013), a psychologist from the University of Michigan and his colleagues which argue that people who used Facebook will become unhappy. They wanted to find out how the use of Facebook can affect them. The support is objective because the author presents facts and clear evidence, for example research done by Robert Kraut (1998) found that more people used the Web, the lonelier and more depressed they felt. In addition, after people went online for the first time, their sense of happiness and social connectedness dropped.
Facebook was started by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004. It is said that facebook connects more than 1.35 billion people around the world. Facebook created more than 4.5 million jobs and more than $227 billion of economic activity in the year 2014 (Anadolu Agency, 2015). Deloitte (2015) states that facebook's current target on improving the experience on promoting connectivity and mobile platform has helped the businesses grow in developing countries such as Brazil, India and Indonesia. Facebook's entry into new markets has unlock new chance to enable economic impact within and outside of its platform.
In modern technology world, none of technologies are secures enough to do all work using confidential and personal data. Social engineering has been looming as one biggest concern related to security personal information. Security doors, biometric scanners, policies, strong passwords, firewalls, defence in depth etc. all this security related controls are worthless against a skilled social engineering. Because social engineering target on the weakest link in the organization i.e. human.
Facebook is a company and an online social networking service and it functions as a mobile application and website that allows people to connect, share, discover, and communicate with each other on mobile devices and personal computers all around the world. Its services also contain Instagram, a mobile application that permits people to take pictures or videos, modify them with filter effects, and distribute them with friends and followers in a photo feed or even directly send them to friends; Messenger, which is a messaging application for mobile and also Web on numerous stages and devices, which permits people to attain others promptly, as well as allow businesses to involve with customers; and WhatsApp Messenger, a mobile messaging application.
FTC claimed Facebook made public 800 million users information that was meant for privacy. Facebook was accused of using photos, videos, and information after users “delete” Total of eight claims by the FTC Zuckerberg’s responded involving Facebook saying, “made a bunch of mistakes” Social Advertising Feature: Beacon Beacon - external company that takes information on purchases that users made and advertises it to other users on Facebook. With beacon, you don't have a choice but to see the ads. New York State challenged this because of its privacy laws written over 100 years ago Zuckerberg's response to people who don't appreciate the ads....
Before human developed social networking, people use the paper to write something to tell someone with mail. Nowadays, we are using social networking such as Facebook messenger and G-mail to talk someone quickly instead waiting mail for long time to receive. It makes our live simple, but it may seem harmful. There are some ways social networking may affect our mental health. In 2012, Medical News Today reported on a study suggesting “Facebook use may feed anxiety and increase a person's feeling of inadequacy.”
Also, she says that the majority of companies are using tools which help them see the accounts of its employees B. Sub point B: cause 2: In the article on howstuffworks.com written by Dave Roos, he says that hacking on social media requires a few technical skills. it does not require many technical skills because some people are not aware of privacy settings or they just decide not to use it. Also, he says that hacking an account in social media is a psychological game because the only thing they need to unlock the account is the information they have on their profiles.
"There are ways around [privacy settings]. While Facebook's privacy settings give the individual some sense of security, it can in a lot of cases be a false sense of security." (Privacy Settings Are Not Enough). Feeling secure feels great but after reading that how safe do you feel now? There have been instances where a company will ask a prospective employee if they can view their Facebook page before they hire them.(Privacy
Facebook’s entire business model revolves around them being able to share your information (Anderson 1). Typically, if companies were caught doing this there would be an outrage. However, everybody seems perfectly fine with it. A few years ago, Facebook introduced the Open Graph Protocol. The Open Graphs Protocol allows Facebook
and Facebook allow us to also share our lives indirectly with photos and statuses sharing the recent memories we create and also serves as a place
Name : (Quintus) Gan QI Xiang Student’s iD : 0322280 Question: What are the advantages and disadvantages of Social Media? Justify your answer with relevant evidences. The definition of social media is a group of internet-based applications that allows the creation and exchange of user-generated contents such as tweet, post, picture, audio files, video and others more which is created by users of an online system and service.