Blog: Privacy

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In all or most social media websites, a user is willingly forfeiting their privacy in exchange for being able to use the website. On Instagram, for example, users will post photos of themselves, their families, their homes, their neighborhoods, etc. All of this information, if you were to compile it in a folder and then hand it to the user, is extremely personal. If you then asked them if they would be willing to hand that folder over to a random person on the street, they would think it's creepy. But, because Instagram is now normalized, and this random person on the street is now an audience composed of both people the user does and does not know, they are more okay with it.

It is difficult now to use the more popular social media sites whilst remaining anonymous due to this, and the only "solutions" there might be for this issue are to not use these websites, or to be more careful with what is posted online.

Comments

  1. Connie ZhangNovember 20, 2019 at 11:23 AM

    Hi Jasmine,

    I agree with the points you made regarding posting online being the equivalent of compiling information on a person into a folder. Social media users believe that they are still maintaining their privacy by posting bits and pieces onto their feeds. However, those bits and pieces combined are able to tell a full story. Even one post can capture the attention of some stranger, and that stranger could have use the posts for unintended purposes. Like you said, the only way to avoid or "solve" these problems are to not use the websites. But even so, in this day and age, even if one doesn't post on social media, his/her private content may be disclosed to unauthorized people through illegal means.

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