In the age of internet, one
cannot deny that Social Networking Sites (SNS) such as Facebook and Twitter
play a very huge role in information sharing. A regular person spends his
everyday going through his newsfeed sifting information ranging from extremely
important to extremely mundane, from essential to virtually useless, from very
private to very public. Knowing this, one can ask “what is too much?”
It is true that we share
information in social media in order for us to stay connected with our loved
ones. But there are times wherein an individual has the tendency to step out of
his boundaries in the information he can divulge to everybody.
For example, last year The Oxford
Dictionaries word named “selfie” (a photograph that one has taken of oneself,
typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media
website) as the word of the year. Selfies created a stir in the virtual
space in such a way that many netizens found themselves taking such a photo. I
have nothing against to those individuals who like taking selfies. But the
problem is that not only a lot of people tend to take a lot of these pictures
but also the pictures they are taking reveal a lot of information.
From - http://acsm-vu.nl/?p=715
According to Tina Costanza, most
adults and teens around the world are sharing information about themselves
online and as a result feel better connected to family and friends, but 60% of
adults and teens believe people divulge too much information about themselves
online, based on the study on mobile etiquette commissioned by Intel
Corporation and conducted by Ipsos Observer which examined the state of mobile
etiquette and evaluated how adults and teens in eight countries share and
consume information online, as well as how digital sharing impacts culture and
relationships.
From - http://www.siliconrepublic.com/fs/img/news/201209/rs-426x288/sharing-information.jpg
I can still remember the night
when my mom called me to just say that I must remove the picture I posted
wherein I was holding a toy gun and posing like Agent 007. She told me that I should
avoid posting pictures that other people can use against me. It is because she
saw from the evening news that a picture posted on facebook was used against an
individual without the person knowing that a simple picture will put him into
trouble. This case is just an example. There are other instances wherein bad
guys can use selfies for their own gain. Bad elements in the society can use
your selfies as a means to track your every action – where you like to eat, at
what particular day – in order to find an opportunity to kidnap you perhaps or
rob you of your belongings when they know you’re not in your house. A scary
thought isn’t it?
I am not saying that everybody
should stop taking selfies. It’s just that one should just do it in moderation.
One should also take note of the elements in the picture that can easily give
the bad guys some ideas how to exploit you. If you really can’t resist the urge
to share your selfies, one should remember that there is the so called “privacy
settings”, okay?
Blog by: Ralph Cedie
P. Fabon
STS THW
Group 6
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