When you out your information online, you are not only
letting people into your world, you are giving them access to your information,
and identity. This is potentially dangerous for people if they use your
information to their own benefit. In High School, there was a lot of drama from
social situations, now add a social networking site, and the drama triples. There
is a new epidemic going around between the young females, stealing photos and
information and creating a fake site with their name and photo. This happened
while I was in high school and I knew the girl who did it. She was not
malicious, or intending to hurt anyone, she just had low self-esteem and was
using the site she had created to feel good about herself… somehow. Needless to
say, she did not feel good about herself when the girl whose identity was stolen
found out who she was and had the police involved. A year out of high school and
I am in the library and I overhear the same exact story in a conversation
between two young girls. Photos are property, and so is information, but how
can you protect something that you let a lot of people have access to?
The internet is a terrifying place. Simply the act of subscribing to a social networking cite makes you vulnerable. It's so easy to just put all of your information online, for purchases or what ever other reason. What people fail to realise is that it is equally easy for people to take that information and use it against you. There are a lot of different people online, better watch out!
ReplyDeleteTRUE! this is one of the many reasons I deactivated my Facebook account. Too many fake accounts, harrassment, and also too much personal info is put out towards possiby dangerous people!
ReplyDeleteThe internet is a scary place, it is partially societies fault that it has gotten so out of hand. No one tells us as kids how scary the internet can really be, and it can get to the best of us through simple things like online passwords, facebook, email etc.
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