Privacy & Confidentiality

Privacy and confidentiality is the major concern of every users who are in social media. In terms of being social users tend to share their personal information to their friends and family. There are security features and policy in the social media applications because sharing information have many positive and negative impacts of social media. Especially, concentrating on the negative aspect of social media. Everyone should be aware of the privacy settings and options that are available for the users in order to manage their profile so that it can remain exclusively between friends and the people who the users want to share their information. There are other features as well such as blocking others from views any information on the users page. Learning these features and option could help users to maintain their privacy and confidentiality.

However, Internet plays a vital role for the success of social media. Another thing about the internet is that once it is in the web, it cannot be delete permanently. The information is always there stored somewhere.We all may have notice that the thing that we have searched on google may have been following us as an advertisement. Also, you may see the advertisement on Facebook. Not only on Facebook but you may see it in other web applications too. It is actually keeping you information where companies have a contract of ad exchange. This is a simple example that social media is not really safe place for privacy and confidentiality.