There are more than 800 million active facebook users who log atleast once in a day. How many of them actually care for privacy? If they did they would not have been active users on facebook. But there are some cases wherein the information provided by facebook updates have caused loss of jobs, or divorce in marriage. I read an article by cbsnews, wherein a teacher was forced to resign from the job, only because she had put a picture of hers holding a glass of wine and beer on facebook. A parent complained the principal of school and it all formed a huge issue.
Ashley Payne: A former teacher
I have also heard of some cases of spam and hacking account. A woman’s account was hacked and messages were sent to all her friends, that she needs money because she is tormented and beaten by her husband and all this increased to a stage which finally led to the divorce between the husband and wife. Neverthless, most of us have been victims of spam messages sent from our account of weird pictures or messages to our friends. Facebook allows the user's pictures to be downloaded by anyone, especially the profile picture. But despite this people are ready to keep their original pictures on facebook.
Moreover, the primary information of email address we provide to most people these days can help anyone to track easily, the name, phone number, address and the country of the person. A useful site for this is: http://www.email-seeker.com/. There are sites like reputation.com which help to build a good reputation on the internet. They can delete the unwanted information on the users name on the web. These was primarily used by parents to keep their teenage children’s record clean, especially being concerned of what they post on the social media websites. But now it is used by even adults, especially those who want create good impression while applying for jobs.
Besides, I even would like to share the case of one of my close friends, who got a job, through craigslist. Initially she was very happy, but since the job was concerned with money transaction she tried to search in detail about the company and figured out that it was a fake company which took money of the employees and put them in serious bad financial condition. Before her, there were many cases of victim and a fbi investigation is going on it.
Undoubtedly the world wide web, has helped us with many sources, but we also have to be more careful than before regarding the information we share on the internet.
No comments:
Post a Comment