Social Media's Influence On Privacy And Personal Information

Privacy is a person’s right to control access to his or her personal information. Everybody value the protection of their personal information. No one wants to see some of their personal information made public, especially on the internet. However, the recent evolution of technology has started to threaten every individual’s privacy by reducing the amount of control that they had over their personal data and making it possible for people who do not have the proper authority to access them. According to Zalta (2014), the 21st century has become the century of Big Data and advanced Information Technology allows for the storage and processing of exabytes of data. The combination of increasing power of new technology and the declining clarity and agreement on privacy give
It is always strange and amusing to see the amount of personal information that people post online for the world to see. They post anything that goes through their mind, their feelings, their wants and needs, their plans, etc. I personally feel like not everything needs to be shared on social media. Hundreds of people don’t need to know what you’re eating, your current location, what is going through your mind, or how you’re currently feeling. Some people have more than a thousand friends or people following them, and most of the times, they do not personally know half of them.
I am not a social media fanatic. I only have a Facebook and I barely go on it. I barely ever post anything on Facebook. When I do, I first have to analyze it to see if it’s worth it. I never regret anything whenever I finally post anything. And to be honest, before signing onto Facebook or any of my email servers, I did not read their terms and conditions. I think that the owner of Facebook or any email servers expect their users to not read his/her terms and conditions since they purposely made it long, boring, and difficult to