Social Media has been in the lives of almost all American’s for the past 10 plus years. Social Media has changed everyday life in almost all capacities. Whether talking about communication, schooling and even safety social media has revolutionized the measures taken through everyday situations.
Since social media has been so revolutionary there are both benefits and subsequent negatives that have come along with the phenomena. One of the concepts that seems to be constantly looked over is the concept of safety, more specifically physical safety when it comes to social media. With social media comes the obvious and apparent problem of cyber bullying throughout the many platforms. Though cyber bullying is a large issue in today’s world, the impact of a person's physical safety and wellbeing in relation to the effects of social media can not be overlooked.
Many or all people that use social media use it consistently on a daily basis. This consists of posting, liking and sharing others posts, pictures and other forms of media. Through reading the content connected to peoples pages even without any basic knowledge of a person you could create an idea of the identity of a person. Everything from their looks to their favorite hangout location can be identified through one look on a instafeed. This alone is scary. The fact that a random person that you personally have never met before can know this amount of information is scary. And it is only getting easier and more personal as social media progresses. Now, on snapchat you could share your exact location with all of your friends. Though this could be adjusted to meet one's personal preferences many activate the feature without batting an eye.
In most situations this shouldnt cause much problems other than some small scale arguments through friends and family but there is a deeper problem that could arise. As most people on Snapchat don’t care to hide their location information with their snapchat friends, this information could easily get into the hands of the wrong people. In the wrong hands a persons location and frequent activity could prove dangerous.
This instance of social media affecting privacy and safety of its users is very avoidable and can be safely managed. Using basic internet safety precautions can make it so your information and privacy is secured. For most online profiles, private profiles are much safer and secure so a person's profile can only be viewed by a friend or accepted profile. In snapchats case having a standard of only accepting friends that you know personally and have met before makes for information and location services to be more secure.
The use of social media has evolved the way we communicate with people that we know as well as we don't know. This evolution has many positive and negative connections that come along with it. The adaption to these growing and changing systems is key when it comes to communicating with the masses, and securing your safety and personal information.
Since social media has been so revolutionary there are both benefits and subsequent negatives that have come along with the phenomena. One of the concepts that seems to be constantly looked over is the concept of safety, more specifically physical safety when it comes to social media. With social media comes the obvious and apparent problem of cyber bullying throughout the many platforms. Though cyber bullying is a large issue in today’s world, the impact of a person's physical safety and wellbeing in relation to the effects of social media can not be overlooked.
Many or all people that use social media use it consistently on a daily basis. This consists of posting, liking and sharing others posts, pictures and other forms of media. Through reading the content connected to peoples pages even without any basic knowledge of a person you could create an idea of the identity of a person. Everything from their looks to their favorite hangout location can be identified through one look on a instafeed. This alone is scary. The fact that a random person that you personally have never met before can know this amount of information is scary. And it is only getting easier and more personal as social media progresses. Now, on snapchat you could share your exact location with all of your friends. Though this could be adjusted to meet one's personal preferences many activate the feature without batting an eye.
This instance of social media affecting privacy and safety of its users is very avoidable and can be safely managed. Using basic internet safety precautions can make it so your information and privacy is secured. For most online profiles, private profiles are much safer and secure so a person's profile can only be viewed by a friend or accepted profile. In snapchats case having a standard of only accepting friends that you know personally and have met before makes for information and location services to be more secure.
The use of social media has evolved the way we communicate with people that we know as well as we don't know. This evolution has many positive and negative connections that come along with it. The adaption to these growing and changing systems is key when it comes to communicating with the masses, and securing your safety and personal information.
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