Every now and then I hear about people getting fired over what they posts or do in Facebook. The problem I see is a lack of common sense and users not doing their due diligence in protecting their private information.
Social Networking sites, such as Facebook have their own privacy mechanisms that allow users to hide certain information from certain groups of people. Most of the time, users don’t bother to check their privacy settings and leave everything to be easily accessible by everyone. It seems people are blinded by a false sense of privacy given by the individuality of using a computer while updating their profiles. People say and do things online, they wouldn’t do in real life, for example telling their new boss how boring the job is.
However, not all responsibility lies within the end users. Social networking sites are not known to be very secure in regards of protecting your personal information from external threats. Glitches and bugs can create security holes that expose your personal data. Last spring one of these glitches allowed anyone to access private pictures in Facebook profiles and this summer Twitter was hacked. These websites quickly fixed the security problems, but not all development teams respond adequately and on time when such security holes appear – and that is something users should take into consideration when joining a social network.
1 comments:
I agree that people s/b aware of the consequences of using SN sites such as Facebook.
It is also true that some people are showing different personality when communicating through SN Sites.
Finally protecting our privacy is possible by checking the privacy settings on Facebook.
However this is not always the case - some people do realize about those options when it is too late. :-(
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