Privacy & Confidentiality

 Privacy & Confidentiality

 Social Networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, or Blogger are used by millions of people around the world. All of these websites differ from each other, but all of them connect people with their friends, family and others. People obsessively started to create their profiles, post pictures, videos, and status providing hundreds of information about themselves. Users invite their family and friends to their friends’ list in order to watch their profiles and post some comments. Those social networking sites allow others to see not only all the information about the users, but also about its friends and friends’ friends. In result, we have chain of information that we unconsciously provide about our life and friends. We indicate what kind of people we really are and what kind of friends we have. This is very important because everyone, from strangers to law enforcement agencies, is able to search any information about the person they need or want to know.   Every user can track every detail of our life, for instance, when you add new friend, join the club, post comment or share a new picture. Most of the users post almost each detail about its life for example; their marital status, home address, age, phone number, personal identifiers, past and present education, politics view, hobbies, etc. People who have social networking services must realize that it is not just a fun because those websites vary in the levels of privacy. We have to learn how to protect our identity because social networking services cannot guarantee you privacy. We have to learn how to use social networking wisely because everyone can have access to our profiles. Your password is not enough to protect your privacy. Privacy is the right of individual or group to keep their personal information confident. The age of the Internet brings the new concept of privacy. Every post, blog, picture, or status update can be stored online forever. Internet users are unaware if the information posted online is used ethically, or is used in the way they should not be.