Robert Siciliano in 7 Social Media Security Tips To Protect Your Business (Forbes, 2014) explains the dangers of social media and how that can affect not only the employee but also the work place. Siciliano develops his argument that social media is dangerous from conducting an experiment where he has cops pretend to be robbers and invade a bank; and, all this is based on information found on a random employee Facebook information. Siciliano informs the audience on the potential dangers of social media in order to get his audience educated about how they can keep themselves safe. The intended audience is to anyone who uses social media, especially those who use it for work reasons. This source can help a researcher understand the topic better by giving the researcher evidence and an event that describes the dangers social media presents. A weakness in this article is that it’s very biased towards one occasion, a strength is that it gives a realistic case of the dangers; the article can be used to defend the fact that social media is too public.
2) Caplan, Art. Is Your Doctor Spying On Your Tweets? Social Media Raises Medical Privacy Questions. NBC, 2013. Website.
Art Caplan in Is Your Doctor Spying On Your Tweets? (NBC, 2013) explains that things posted on social media can affect one’s life in many different aspects, and in this case it’s medical. Caplan gives a real life situation where a patient got turned down for a liver transplant because of a drinking problem. Caplan wants to inform the readers to be careful what they post on social media in order to not risk major decisions. Caplan writes to anyone who has a social media account. This would help a researcher prove their argument of social media being too public by giving support to the argument. A strength of this article is that it is based off a real event and a weakness is that the event isn’t common