In today’s society I am very concerned with my personal
privacy. Privacy is having your own
personal things that no one else is allowed to view. I feel like there are more and more ways to
track people’s private things today than there was in past years. For example, if you set your Facebook to “private”
there are still ways that people and companies can find your information and
look through your profile. It is
important for people today to realize that anything put on the internet whether
you think it’s private or not can be seen by millions of people. I feel like today our privacy has decreased
tremendously and although some of this is our fault for posting things online
and not being careful it is also a majority of the technology that is accessible
today. The article on Facebook and privacy really opened my eyes to things I didn’t
know about my privacy on Facebook. I was
shocked to find out that even if I’m not logged into Facebook and go to a page
that has a Facebook “like” button it acknowledges that I was at that site. The article also goes into discuss how it may
not only be who is seeing our information but what we actually put up for those
people to see. I definitely agree that
people today are posting way too personal things on social networks without
thinking of who can see this. You may
think that you have set all your settings to private but it’s important to
understand that other people can access your information. I didn’t like that the article said that in
the future Facebook is going to allow users access to your searches and page
views, time and date, and even IP addresses while you’re logged into
Facebook. This makes me question whether
or not I should even have a Facebook and if the benefit of having one outweighs
the privacy issue that is continuing to grow.
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