In class i found that lots of people felt that in order to protect your "privacy" on Facebook, they set an enormous amount of security settings that restricted specific people from seeing specific things on their profile. I had a great deal of difficulty trying to understand the reasoning behind doing such a thing. This is an issue for me for a numerous amount of reasons.
The first reason would be that I feel that the whole point of a social network is to be open to the public and to share as much as possible to attract as many people as possible. I figure that if your going to go through such great lengths to hide things then maybe they should not be put up on Facebook. For people who want to be completely invisible to people who they do not know on Facebook, why be apart of the network at all.
My next big misunderstanding with the point of people who want to hide themselves and their information on social network sites is because I don't know why people misinterpret what it means to be apart of a social network. Only being visible to friends that you already know and have in the physical world is pointless. There are many opportunities to communicate with the people you already know on other platforms such as telephone, texts, and gatherings. A social networks purpose is to unite people from many different platform in life, allow them to get to know each other through conversation, and ultimately use each other for special purposes.
I believe that people have misused the social network sites for entertainment purposes and this is the reason why so many people find a need to hide information. These sites are not to be public displays of what is going on in your everyday life, tell others where you are at the current moment, or to post pictures that show you in your most intimate states. it is strictly for networking, hence the name social network.
People need to reevaluate what their intentions are when joining sites. If your intentions are to be fun, playful, and to share intimate things with only the people you know then maybe Facebook is not the site to join.
I can agree with what your saying, people who are really worried about privacy probably should be smart in what they post and everything will be fine.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you are saying. If you do not want people to know your business than why air it on your social media site. You should not post anything you do not want people to see and therefore should be no need for security settings really. Unless you do not want certain people to search you. That is when I think it is necessary to have security settings.
ReplyDeleteI pretty much agree with everything here. My profile isn't private, but I don't put anything on it that I would not want the public to see.
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