Privacy and Confidentiality

Privacy has been an issue in the world of the New Media especially in the case of social networking websites. In websites such as Facebook and Twitter, sometimes people just give out way too much information about themselves. They don't think about the harm they could be doing to themselves. There could be stalkers checking them out daily and getting updated on their lives. And there have been situations where employers will check out employees' Facebook and judge them based on pictures and comments that could lead them to get fired. So it's more of a question of how to handle yourself on Facebook. Many people use Facebook to keep in contact with their friends from all over the world. But it is also a way of meeting new people. Because of this, people will try to portray themselves the way they want others to view them on Facebook and they will invent new ways of making themselves look better in their eyes. Perhaps they will use a picture of themselves as their profile picture from years ago that they look good in when they look completely different than they do now. There is a movie that just came out recently called Catfish. It was only played on selected theaters in Manhattan. Basically without revealing too much information to avoid spoiling it for people who may be interested, the plot is basically about a guy who meets this girl on Facebook and throughout time he would get to know her family through Facebook only. He would start a relationship through Facebook only. When he tried to meet her she always refused. Finally he decides to surprise her and go to where she lives to meet her. Everything he thought he knew about her and the family through Facebook just turned out to be completely different from what he thought. It's very crazy what he finds out about this woman. It's mind boggling what people will do on Facebook. You can never be too careful with the people you meet on Facebook. So it is important to handle your privacy very well on Facebook. I really think it's dumb to update my location on Facebook or Twitter every second of the day. I think it's annoying to see people of all, and t isn't very smart revealing your whereabouts to a bunch of people that you are friends with on the internet. Some friends you are with are close to you but there's a good amount of those "friends" that are really just acquaintances and have no business knowing what you are doing.