Social Media

Technology makes our life better in general. For example, we can have a face-to-face chatting or calling, no matter where we live by clicking a button. Also, you can randomly reach out to any people and share some information, interests, and pictures. People are able to search and store any type of information and documentation with no paper required in their computers or cell phones. Technology has been rapidly improved and made our life more convenience, beneficial, easier, and fruitful.

Social media is one of the core technologies, that has dramatically developed time to time. It is used as enablement of networking with no physical medium. Also, you can share anything you want with people whether you know them or not. According to the New York Times’ article “How Obama Tapped Into Social Networks’ Power”, He wondered if social networking, with its tremendous communication capabilities and aggressive database development, might help him beat the overwhelming odds facing him. As a result, for his political campaign the millions of names of supporters were engaged almost instantly. Likewise, the social media could be influential to address thoughts and ideas.   

Although there exist the advantages of the social media, the disadvantages always happen to be encountered. The privacy issue is one of the major disadvantages. According to the The Wire’s article “Facebook Privacy Is So Confusing Even the Zuckerberg Family Photo Isn't Private”, even Zuckerberg was not able to prevent his privacy from opening to the public. On the bottom line, it is too confusing to set up the privacy setting; it is apparently hard to safeguard your privacy life since you can search anyone on Google, Linkedin, and Facebook. In order to prevent the privacy issues from occurrences for the future, the security management system will need to be required and reinforced by implementing better security performance systems.

Work Cite

Carr, David. "Obama's Personal LinkedIn." The New York Times. The New York Times, 9 Nov. 2008. Web. 7 Oct. 2014. <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/media/10carr.html?_r=0>.

GREENFIELD, REBECCA. "Facebook Privacy Is So Confusing Even the Zuckerberg Family Photo Isn't Private." The Wire. The Wire, 26 Dec. 2012. Web. 7 Oct. 2014. <http://www.thewire.com/technology/2012/12/facebook-privacy-so-confusing-even-zuckerberg-family-photo-isnt-private/60313/>.