Showing posts with label Privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Privacy. Show all posts

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Why the Most Important Thing That a User Has Online Is Their Privacy

Social media privacy is very important. If a person has anything it is their identity. Ideally, this identity would be different than everyone else's so that people knew who they were talking to at all times. Therefore, it would make common sense that a person would want to protect their identity and their interests and likes from people who they do not know and have no business speaking to at that moment. However, this is not how the social networks function. Most of the major social networks believe that all information about a person should be shared with anyone who cares to look. This is a massive problem for every user who uses a social networking platform. Just because a social network thinks it's true does not make it true at all. This is because revealing all the information about a person is a dangerous proposition that every user of the social network systems should avoid.

Obviously, the number one goal of a person on the social networking platform is to keep up with their friends but also to keep their profile is private as possible. The truth about the social networks is that they set their default settings to allow everyone including strangers to see everything about a person, even if they have no connection at all. This should be a red flag for most people when they sign up to use a social networking system. A person does not leave your front door open for any person who wanders by to come in and look around. Not only would this allow people into the house. Who would want to steal things but it is also very creepy for a person to do that. However, this is how most social networks actually function. They basically let any stranger walk in the front door. Have a look around and take anything they want.

This type of security is not useful for keeping banking and financial information private. This any of this information can be used to help a person access someone else's financial information. What is even worse is that a person may have built their password for the bank account off a derivative of something in the profile. Therefore, they are that much closer to getting access to the money of the user. The fact of the matter is that a hacker only really needs to know a birthday, a address, and a name of the high school. In some cases to get access to banking information over the phone or on the Internet. It really depends on how the user set up their security questions. Nevertheless, no matter how they set up security questions any person who can grab someone's birthday is one step closer to accessing all the information about their banking information.

Finally a social network uses this information to deliver highly targeted offers to a user. This means that the user will find whatever is advertise to them very enticing. This can be a massive problem because this is impulse spending. Impulse spending is spending money on things that were not previously budgeted. This is very dangerous for person because impulse buying is the fastest way to an overdraft fee. Therefore, the more privacy that a user can get more likely that they will not buy anything or have there are financial information taken away from them.

Therefore, a person who is concerned with or social media privacy is a very smart person. Protecting the identity of a user should be the number one concern of the social networking platform. However, most of social networking platforms have to use the information to make money because there is no other way for them to monetize their products and services. This means that the onus of privacy is put onto the user themselves. A smart user logs into all the fine print that a social networking platform provides a makes an informed decision on whether or not to use that platform in the future.

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How Friends Influence Social Media Privacy

People should be concerned about how their friends use social media. Especially, if the users are interested in social privacy because the fact of the matter is that a friend can influence another person's social media privacy as much as the user themselves. This is a massive problem that everyone interested in social privacy should be aware of because the problem will become worse before it gets better.

The truth is that the social media systems will always do what benefits them before the users. They have to do this because they have to make money. A business that is interested in making money will never have their users' interests at heart first no matter what they might say.

Therefore, it is up to the user to defend their interests online. They must defend their privacy against the social media system and well meaning friends who use the social media systems. This is because the friends of the user can directly influence how much privacy a person has on the social media systems.

A well meaning friend is always trying to share their shared experience with another user. This makes them feel connected to the other user and helps the other user (most of the time) feel connected to them. However, this one action can be extremely dangerous.

The social media system is always engaged in collecting information about a user that they can use to sell to companies that want to sell that information to advertisers. Therefore, the information that a friend releases about a user will be gathered and categorized.

This means that a social media system will use that information to categorize the user and they will sell the space to advertise to that user. This means that the ads will be specifically targeted towards the interests of that person. All with no prior consent of the user or knowledge (on some of the social networks).

Therefore, a person who is careful about what information they post about his or herself can be dragged into advertising by their friends. They do not even have to say anything, if a person "tags" them in a post then the social media system is aware that the person might be interested in whatever subject that person was "tagged in".

This might mean that a person has a standing agreement with other people to not tag them in posts or updates. This is the best thing to do in most cases. This standing agreement will make it clear that the social media user does not like the social system collecting information about them and should limit the amount of information that the social system has about them.

In the end, it is on the user to make sure that their friends do not misuse the privilege of having them in their social network. A person who tells their friends that they do not want to be tagged in posts or updates gives his or herself the power to choose what information the social system has about them now and in the future.

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