Tuesday, November 24, 2015
BLOG: Privacy
New media has brought heaps of information to the web. Most of this information brings us joy and laughs and is used for positive reasons. What most people don't realize is that once content is uploaded to the internet, it basically lives there forever. Even if a post is removed from your account, it may still sit somewhere on the sites severs, or someone may have saved a screenshot or it may have been indexed my the many websites that mine your data. Even facebook saves a lot of data about its users. Companies pay facebook to release your data. Be aware of what you post online because you never know when your potential employer might end up seeing it.
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I actually did my paper on how social media leads to an invasion of privacy and you'd be surprised how much of your content Facebook and other third party companies gather and then sell. At the end of the day we are just a product to social media websites and all our contents, posts and photos are being monetized by them
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